Ápside Media draws its roadmap until 2027

Sustainability, income diversification, alliances, commitment to internal talent, Artificial Intelligence, audience fragmentation, comprehensive content management and service to brands will be the pillars that will mark the roadmap of Middle Apse between now and 2027.

The Shareholders' Meeting of the Ábside Media group (COPE, Cadena 100, RockFM, MegastarFM and Trece) has approved the accounts for the 2024 financial year, which show positive economic results, consolidating its growth and financial strength. The company reached about operating income of 149 million of euros, with a profit before taxes of 9.9 million euros and a EBITDA of 13 million euros, which means a 31% increase compared to the previous year.

Ábside Media has also approved the incorporation as new directors of Clara Pardo Gil, Ana Matarranz Carpizo, Ana Figaredo Alvargonzález and Jesús Avezuela Cárcel.

The audiovisual group began to take important steps in 2022 to continue growing and reorganized its management structure with the aim of strengthening its radio and television business and also diversifying its income through Apse Media Productions and of Apse Media Studio.

Strategic plan 2025-27

Sustainability, income diversification, relevance, commitment to internal talent as a great connoisseur of the business and with a transformative vocation proportional to the challenge facing the sector; the possible alliances, the audience fragmentation, the comprehensive content management, their control over the platforms, the service to brands and advertisers and the commitment to technological investment in a context conditioned by generative artificial intelligence and cybersecurity will mark the short term. In this sense, Ápside Media continues to develop more than 30 projects related to IA Gen within the company to increase operational efficiency, offer a better audience experience and remain relevant.

Javier Visiers, CEO of Ábside Media, highlights that "our objective is not only to transform. We want to do it with a disruptive vision. With the new strategic plan 2025/27 we have an exciting and very demanding project and we undertake it from the strength that good economic results give us. We need to provide the company with agility to live up to what our shareholder, society, the audience and the market ask of us. With the emergence of Generative AI, the media goes from digital transformation to the transformation of digital. We do not renounce the use of AI but in the face of it we claim the credibility of the radio and rigorous journalism that builds a direct and honest relationship with our audience as KPIs of success."

For the president, José Luis Restan, “our ability to influence, the relevance of our brands and communicators, our local implementation, our level of billing, our technological update and our governance, show that Ápside is a great communication group.”