Marc Webbon, who co-founded Silverhub and is now on the management team at Wonderhatch with Simon Owen and Patrick Gather, said in April: “Right from our very first meetings with Simon, Patrick and the team at Wonderhatch, it has been clear that we share the same values and the same goals – we are all driven to deliver exceptional work and to help our customers have a much more engaging relationship with content.” The combined agency initially continued trading under separate names but Silverhub confirmed on Twitter last week that it has now joined with Wonderhatch UK. Silverhub said last year that its buyout of Flynet made it “one of the world’s biggest entertainment agencies and cements Silverhub’s position as the industry’s leading supplier of breaking news entertainment and celebrity photography”.ĭespite going into administration, Silverhub has been taken over by photo agency Wonderhatch, a move first announced in April. Silverhub was founded by former Getty Images chief operating officer Nick Evans-Lombe and the head of Getty Images editorial division Adrian Murell. The administrators said other subsidiary companies of Silverhub Media, including celebrity photo agency Flynet Pictures, were included in the management buyout of Splash News and will continue to trade. The agency, which was established in 1990, made its name with showbiz exclusives such as its reports on model Anna Nicole Smith’s death in 2007 and revelations about golfer Tiger Woods’s love life in 2009.Īdministrators FRP Advisory were appointed to Silverhub on 12 June, just over two years after the company was launched with the purchase of The Picture Library in London and Action Press in Hamburg, Germany. Splash claims to work with 2,000 photographers and videographers around the world and sells more than 500 exclusive images each month for use in print, web and TV. Down joined Silverhub as managing editor soon after its launch in April 2016. The UK editorial team is led by John Edwards, former picture editor of the Sun, and Ian Down, former picture editor of the Daily Mirror.
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