Announcing our Christmas appeal to raise £1m for new Maggie’s centre at St Barts November 2, 2015 With the festive season nearly upon us, City A.M. is delighted to announce that we will be supporting cancer charity Maggie’s during our 2015 Christmas Appeal. The Square Mile has proven to be exceptionally generous during recent campaigns; City Giving Day, an initiative of the Lord Mayor, was a huge success and contributed to the [...]
Ronaldo vs Messi debate cleaned up October 29, 2015 Another incredible week at the football stock market has seen the Footie Index climb 38 points with confidence boosted by impressive early returns. The latest in a string of en vogue youngsters keeping traders on alert is Kevin De Bruyne, whose value has rocketed 34 per cent in a matter of weeks. Anthony Martial (+60.7 [...]
Sign up to the City A.M. Wine Club for the chance to win a prestigious Dom Perignon dinner for two October 26, 2015 This competition has now closed. To celebrate the release of the 2006 vintage from Dom Perignon, City A.M. Wine Club has a superb competition for both new and existing members. Les 110 de Taillevent, the London incarnation of the iconic two Michelin-starred Parisian restaurant, has created a menu designed to perfectly match Dom [...]
Google AMP, Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News, Medium API: Is this the end of news websites as we know them? October 8, 2015 News publishers could be forgiven for thinking it’s all very end-of-days at the moment. On one side, ad-blockers may be about to strangle a primitive monetisation model and, on the other, Silicon Valley giants seem intent on controlling the distribution of content, arguably calling the very existence of individual news websites into question. Apple upped [...]
Using ad-blocker on City A.M. September 18, 2015 Why can’t I use an ad blocker on cityam.com? The journalism on City A.M. is funded by advertising but this business model is threatened by the use of ad blockers, which prevent adverts from appearing on the website. City A.M. therefore restricts access to full articles when ad blockers are active. How do I [...]
Shot on iPhone: How smartphone cameras are changing the world September 14, 2015 If you've travelled on the underground in the last couple of months you might have seen some gorgeous sweeping landscapes, tumbling waterfalls and stunning vistas, all ‘Shot on iPhone 6’. A few years ago if the world’s biggest technology company wanted to do a global marketing campaign it would have hired the best photographers [...]