Group Nine Among Digital Media with Urge to Merge

New York Post: Digital-media companies that survived the pandemic are now rushing to join forces as they scramble to battle the tech giants for ad dollars. Enter Group Nine Media, whose websites include Thrillist, ­TheDodo, NowThis, Seeker and PopSugar, and which is 25 percent owned by Discovery. The media company has now launched its own SPAC to help it combine with another target business in the digital-media space.