TNL Mediagene Ordinary Shares

TNL Mediagene agreed to sell its Japanese business for $5.5M to an investor group led by CEO Motoko Imada as the company continues to evaluate strategic alternatives. Under the agreement, the company will sell all shares of TNL Mediagene, the holding company for Mediagene and Infobahn, to MI Company, an acquisition vehicle formed by the investor group. The deal includes at least $2.5M in cash at closing, with the remaining consideration subject to specified adjustments and a secured promissory note due December 31, 2026, and is expected to close by October 30, 2026. Following the deal, TNL Mediagene will retain its Taiwan business and continue evaluating strategic alternatives involving its capital structure and ownership. TNMG's stock price jumped about 30% on Friday pre-market hours.

TNL Mediagene announced that its digital media brand Business Insider Taiwan surpassed 1.2 million website page views in August 2026, less than one year after its September 2025 launch, more than doubling from approximately 500,000 page views in June 2026. The brand is expanding into original video and podcast programming with two flagship programs expected to roll out beginning in the fourth quarter of 2026: Insider Talk, a video interview program on corporate decision-making, sustainability and AI transformation, and Health Insider, a podcast connecting medical expertise with biotechnology and healthcare innovation. Business Insider Taiwan attributes its audience growth to its use of the Company's proprietary Agentic Newsroom, an AI-driven content management system that streamlines translation and editing across English, Chinese and Japanese so journalists can focus on local interviews and in-depth reporting. More than 30% of its readers come from overseas markets including Hong Kong, North America and Southeast Asia. The two programs, featuring 20-25-minute long-form video and in-depth podcast content, are intended to create new commercial opportunities including title sponsorships, sponsored topic initiatives and executive employer-branding partnerships. Motoko Imada, Co-Founder and CEO of TNL Mediagene, called the page-view milestone a significant step in establishing a global media brand in the local market.

TNL Mediagene, a technology and digital media company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker TNMG, announced a 1-for-8 share consolidation of its ordinary shares, effective when the market opens on September 8, 2026. The reverse stock split aims to raise the per-share trading price to help the company regain compliance with Nasdaq's minimum bid price requirement of $1.00 per share and to attract institutional investors. Shareholders approved a consolidation ratio of up to 1-for-10 at an extraordinary general meeting on August 25, 2026, and the board later set the final ratio at 1-for-8 on August 27. Every eight existing shares will be combined into one, with fractional shares rounded up, and no shareholder action is required. Computershare will act as the exchange agent for the consolidation.