Hilton & Hilton Limited is, as of May 27, 2009, no longer a shareholder in MessageSpace / EOS Online Media Limited.  By unanimous resolution of the shareholders it was agreed that MessageSpace would buy out Hilton & Hilton’s minority holding.  This is the second transaction of this kind, the first share buy back was in 2008.  MessageSpace’s Managing Director Kelly Nightingale paid tribute to the original managing director

“Alex Hilton was one of the original founders and the first managing director of the firm.  It was his original idea to form an advertising network to represent political blogs.  Over the last three years we have grown from six blogs to forty blogs, branching out into video viral distribution and acting as a niche media buyer for savvy advertisers across the political spectrum.  It is a cliche in business to say of the departing that ‘he wants to be free to concentrate on other things’, in Alex’s case it really is true and he also wanted to be free of any perceived conflicts of interest.  We wish Alex well with his political career.”

Background :

EOS Online Media Limited trading as “MessageSpace” is a privately held firm established in July 2006.

The advertising network reaches a broadsheet audience of a million unique readers and delivers 25 million advertisements monthly.

The firm places advertising with some 40 website publishers focused on current affairs and politics across the political spectrum. It has revenue sharing agreements with the majority of the top-ranked political blogs in Britain.  It also has a growing specialist niche digital media buying agency business with politically savvy clients such as Microsoft, HSBC, the Cooperative Bank, Help the Aged, the Labour Party, Liberal Democratic Party and the Conservative Party.

We are proud to say that over the last three years we have paid out hundreds of thousands of pounds to bloggers, sustaining and developing new media voices.