The Morning Lowdown 10.14.10
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» Sometimes saying sorry is not enough… A day after Lee Abrams, the Tribune Read more »
Condé Nast Digital Shakeup Coming?
The ground beneath Condé Nast appears to be shifting again, as the publisher is preparing another reorg of its digital and print operations… Read more »
Mag Publishers Have A Short Window Before Indies Crash The iPad
Ashley Norris is CEO of branded content advisory Sutro Digital and director of Anorak Publishing and is currently planning an iPad annual ve… Read more »
Hearst TV Digital Exec Koepele Joins Ziff Davis
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Eric Koepele is leaving his post running digital ad sales for Hearst TV to join Ziff Davis. This is the third high-profile media vet to join… Read more »
Condé Nast Study Concludes iPad Is Not A Mobile Device (At Least Not Now)
There have been over 3.8 million downloads of Condé Nast apps on the iPad and iPhone since the publisher began rolling them out. Over the p… Read more »
PIB: Mag Ads Rise For Second Consecutive Quarter; Growth Remains Slight
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For the second time in a row, magazine ad pages and rate-card-reported revenue posted quarterly gains, as the the ad recovery move on,albeit… Read more »
Esquire Gets Animated For iPad App Debut
Esquire took its time, but it finally released its iPad mag app last night on iTunes. While the Hearst mag has been selling digital issues o… Read more »
Next Issue Media Opens Silicon Valley Outpost With Trio Of Nokia Execs
Next Issue Media, the media JV that is aiming to create a digital storefront for magazines and newspapers, is finally putting down stakes in… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.06.10
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» David Carr paints a sordid, profane portrait of The Tribune Company under Sam Zell and Randy Michaels that feels like a combina… Read more »
IPC Selling Web User Magazine, Website To Dennis
IPC Media is another publishing house contracting its portfolio to get in to shape. In the latest of several sell-offs, it’s selling Web Use… Read more »
Wired UK Will Test One-Off iPad Edition Before A Rolling Schedule
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Wired’s UK edition is about to follow its U.S. counterpart by publishing an iPad version.
But the edition will publish a single issue first… Read more »
Condé Nast Gets Deeper Into Selling Digital Content
Condé Nast is taking a bigger step toward creating more paid content Monday when it unveils its Golf Digest on Demand, a golf-instruction v… Read more »
MPA Is Dropping ‘Publishers’ From Its Tagline, Replacing It With ‘Media’
The Magazine Publishers of America, the trade association for periodicals printed on glossy paper, is trying to update its image and is drop… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.01.10
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» The Social Network, the dramatic account of the early rise of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, has gotten mostly rave reviews as i… Read more »
Updated: Michael Wolff To Head E5 Global’s Adweek Group
Updated: Several more sources have confirmed that Michael Wolff will be joining E5 Global Media as the editorial director of the Adweek Gro… Read more »
It’s Official: WaPo Hands Newsweek Over To Harman
The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) just sent out a two-sentence press release announcing the closing of the deal to sell Newsweek magaz… Read more »
Haymarket’s Debut Jaguar App Roams Free
If you were developing an iPad app targeting Jaguar drivers, wouldn’t you charge for it?
Haymarket isn’t… Read more »
How Publishing And Advertising Are Redefining Media
It’s Advertising Week in New York and at many of the conferences and workshops the big topic is the blurring of the lines between of adverti… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.27.10
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» The New Yorker is launching on the iPad today and the pressure on Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to provide a better solution for selling m… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.24.10
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» Was it Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) or bad business decisions that busted Blockbuster? (NYSE: BBI) Perhaps it was online video. [NewTee… Read more »
Gourmet Live Hits The App Store; Epicurious Averages 50k Downloads Weekly
After the huge fanfare that greeted Condé Nast’s June preview of the defunct Gourmet magazine’s reincarnation as a free iPad app, the brand… Read more »
ESPN’s Newest Premium Apps Are For Insiders Only
While other publishers brag about surpassing single-copy sales on the iPad or look for ways to manage subscriptions outside of iTunes, ESPN… Read more »
Cost-Cutting Completed, Lemarchand Is Out At Hachette, Replaced By Parr
Lagardere executives are moving out Alain Lemarchand as president and CEO of HFMUS, the magazine publisher of Elle, Woman’s Day and Car and… Read more »
After BusinessWeek Settles In, Bloomberg Revamps Markets Mag
Now that Bloomberg has completely integrated BusinessWeek into its operations, the financial media company is now turning its attention to s… Read more »
With Interest From AOL And Hearst, Solve Media Offers ‘CAPTCHA’ Ad Units
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Aside from pop-up ads perhaps, having to enter a “CAPTCHA” — the process of rewriting a barely readable piece of text to prove you’re not… Read more »
Hearst Promotes Town&Country ‘s Zimak To Oversee All Tablet Ads
Hearst Magazines has appointed sales exec Avi Zimak to run all the publisher’s tablet ads as it prepares to launch its “think tank” for apps… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.16.10
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» Publishers, your prayers may soon be answered: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is prepping a subscription plan for newspapers, and according… Read more »
Condé Nast UK MD: Up To 40 Percent Of Sales Could Be On iPad
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By Mark Sweney: Nicholas Coleridge, the managing director of Condé Nast UK, has predicted that in the future as many as 40% of the publishe… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.15.10
» Looking to get out in front of a more general business news audience, Bloomberg is running its news stories on Yahoo (NSDQ: YHO… Read more »
Reader’s Digest Revamps Print Mag, Adds E-Mail Newsletter And Apps
Reader’s Digest Association is continuing its long comeback since emerging from bankruptcy in February with a (yet another) makeover of its… Read more »
Display Revenue Growth Outpaced By Total Ad Market In First Half 2010
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The softening of the economic recovery and weaker consumer spending didn’t dim ad expenditures in the first half of the year, as the general… Read more »
Brightcove: Online Video Discovery Shifting From Search To Social Media
Even in the depths of the recession, online video ad growth continued to surge by double digits. Spending is still expected to rise robustly… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.13.10
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» The Hollywood Reporter will cease publishing a daily print digest and will replace it with an online PDF for subscribers as it… Read more »
U.S. News Partners With Loud3r On Content Aggregation Channels
U.S. News Media Group, the parent of monthly mag U.S. News and World Report, is working with content aggregator Loud3r on a series of real-t… Read more »
Yahoo Shine Editor Brandon Holley Exits, Returns To Condé Nast
Brandon Holley is leaving Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) after three years to return to the print magazine world as editor-in-chief of Condé Nast’s Luc… Read more »
Macworld Rolls Out Tiered Online Subscriptions
Macworld, the magazine and website devoted to all things Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), is launching a range of online subscription products. The vario… Read more »
Sporting News Today Expands Pay Options With iPad Subscription
Sporting News Today has been on the iPad for months via the Zinio newsstand. But Sporting News is trying to expand the discovery — and reve… Read more »
The Atlantic Will Follow Paid iPad Edition With New ‘Atlantic Premium’
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The Atlantic is the latest to mine for gold in the iPad App Store with single issues for sale at $4.99 — but that’s just one part of a gran… Read more »
Future Doing Proper iPad Version Of T3 Mag
By Josh Halliday: Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) is to launch a bespoke iPad edition of its gadget magazine T3, buoyed by a sixfold increase… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08.27.10
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» Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is warning Hollywood movie studios about something they likely expected all along: the company is prepa… Read more »
