This Isn’t FarmVille: Playboy Kicks Off Gaming Label With ‘Poisonville’
Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) is forming a new video game label this year as part of a wider digital strategy to make its brand more mains… Read more »
Time Inc’s Paid Content Head Monica Ray Moves To Condé Nast
Monica Ray, who had been managing Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.’s paid content strategy, is taking on a new job at Condé Nast. She has been named E… Read more »
Google Ads Make ‘Nuppence Ha’penny’ For Digital Mags
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Perhaps no surprise really, but here’s an observation from a digital magazine platform which suggests charged access is a bigger earner than… Read more »
Hearst Opening ‘Think Tank’ For Apps
As Hearst Magazines continues its app rollout through the end of this year, the publisher is opening an “App Lab” at its New York headquarte… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08.18.10
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» Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) may be looking to buy CafeMom for $100 million. [AllThingsD]
» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV was herald… Read more »
Meredith Promotes Platt To Head Creative At Integrated Marketing Unit
Meredith (NYSE: MDP) Corp.’s Tony Platt isn’t replacing the outgoing Jack Griffin, who will decamp to Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) as CEO next mont… Read more »
Next Issue Predicts $3 Billion Worth Of E-Paper Subs By 2014
There has been a lot of doubt about publishers’ hopes that tablet devices could help return magazines and newspapers to the days when scarci… Read more »
The Message Isn’t Always The Medium
There’s an intriguing thinkpiece in Wired UK’s September edition in which Russell Davies effectively argues that the shape of our content is… Read more »
The 10-Year View: UK Magazine Sales Close To A Decade Low
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The sector’s Periodical Publishers Association says latest figures show “an improving outlook for the UK consumer magazine sector”.
Really.… Read more »
Playboy’s iPad App: Same Price As Newsstand, But No Digital Gatefold
One of the old jokes people used to make about buying Playboy magazine was that they “just read it for the articles.” Well, when someone buy… Read more »
Meebo Aims For More Media Deals; Maxim Aims For Display Dollars
Maxim is the latest media outlet to sign on to social content platform Meebo’s sharing and display ad toolbar as it looks for ways to packag… Read more »
Forbes Gains Russian Domain Name After Court Fight
A year after being awarded it by a Russian court, Forbes Media’s local online edition there has finally been handed the forbes.ru domain nam… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08.10.10
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» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has been doing some soul-searching about how deeply it can and should delve in to mining the data its colle… Read more »
It’s Official: Jack Griffin Joining Time Inc. As CEO Next Month
Following last week’s news leak, here’s the official word… Jack Griffin, who stepped down as Meredith’s National Media Group president las… Read more »
ABC Fas-Fax: Consumer Mag Circ Still Falling, Just Not As Badly
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The downward trajectory of consumer magazine circulation appears to have slowed in the first half of the year. While publishers weren’t able… Read more »
Digital Imitation Is A Form Of Flattery For Old-Guard Publishers
It was pop-culture philosopher Marshall McLuhan who wrote: “All media come in pairs, with one acting as the ‘content’ of the other.”
That a… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08.06.10
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» A Jack Griffin-led Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) would include the same emphasis he put on marketing services at Meredith (NYSE: MDP),… Read more »
Playboy Slims Loss, Revs Drop 10 Percent
Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) posted slightly better-than-expected results in Q2, as company watchers continued to wonder about Playboy fo… Read more »
Meredith’s Jack Griffin Tapped To Succeed Ann Moore As Time Inc. CEO
Hours after Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) posted mixed results for its publishing unit, Time Inc. is preparing to announce that Jack Griffin, who… Read more »
Condé Nast Taps Viacom Vet Simon for CTO Post
After 12 years as Viacom’s chief information officer, Joe Simon is heading to Condé Nast for a similar role. The hire comes two weeks after… Read more »
Bewkes: Rental Delays From Netflix, RedBox Is Paying Off For DVD Sales
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Early agreements from Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Redbox to delay renting new titles until 28 days after they are first available for purchase… Read more »
Time Warner Profits Rise, As Publishing Revs Remained Flat
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There’s a reason publishing executives have adopted the phrase “flat is the new up” over the past few years and even in an ad recovery, the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08.03.10
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» CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) have struck a major, comprehensive 10-year carriage agreement, that will prevent the… Read more »
What’s Next For Newsweek?
While Newsweek now has a new owner, most observers are still leaving the magazine for dead. Even the new owner, 91-year-old Sidney Harman, p… Read more »
Harman On Newsweek: ‘National Treasure’; ‘Business Challenge’; Meacham Out
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Following the pre-announcement word earlier, now it’s official: The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) sent out the official release confir… Read more »
WaPo Sells Newsweek To Harman; Announcement Coming This Afternoon
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As expected, The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) will sell Newsweek to audio equipment impresario Sidney Harman, AdAge reported, and pai… Read more »
NYTCo Begins Marketing Mobile Content Platform To Other Pubs
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The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) has formed a new venture called Press Engine, which will serve as a mobile content delivery platform… Read more »
Audio Billionaire Leads The Pack In Bid For Newsweek
In its attempts to find a buyer for Newsweek, The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) has been said to have hardly given a thought to bids f… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07.30.10
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» The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) is desperate to unload Newsweek magazine — but not desperate enough sell to Avenue Capital… Read more »
Forbes’ True/Slant Prepares To Sign Off
As expected, Forbes is shuttering the True/Slant site this weekend, according to the posts of several contributors. As Fishbowl NY noted, al… Read more »
Meredith Interactive Revenues Continued To Surge In Q2
While the magazine industry finally experienced a boost in Q2 in terms of largely positive ad pages, the comeback remains fairly weak, forci… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07.29.10
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» The new Kindle is lighter, cheaper, faster than ever — but will it kill the iPad? [paidContent]
» Time Inc. (NYSE:… Read more »
Russia’s ProfMedia Combines Afisha And Rambler
Russian media holding firm ProfMedia is merging two of its properties, magazine publishing house Afisha and major Russian internet portal Ra… Read more »
MSLO Online Revs Rise 12 Percent
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Online revenues for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) benefited from the ad recovery in Q2, a period in which the company ramped u… Read more »
Monday’s ‘Day One’ For Bob Sauerberg As President Of New Conde Nast
Bob Sauerberg’s field promotion to president of Condé Nast was a surprise — and yet, after watching him in action with CEO Chuck Townsend… Read more »
Playboy Launches SFW Site TheSmokingJacket
As speculation swirls around Playboy (NYSE: PLA) founder Hugh Hefner’s bid to take to the company private — and the counteroffers — the sa… Read more »
Reader’s Digest Planning Short-Form Web Articles As Print Teasers
Here’s something that’s not going to happen any time soon – the Reader’s Digest becoming “the UK Read more »
Virgin To Launch ‘iPad-Only’ Magazine
By Josh Halliday: Virgin is expanding its global empire into the world of consumer magazines Read more »
Hearst Magazines Outlines Major App Rollout For Second Half Of 2010
Five days after releasing its iPad app version of Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazine says iTunes users have downloaded more than 10,000 copi… Read more »
Updated: Hefner Offers To Take Playboy Private; Penthouse Making A Move?
It’s been over half a year since Playboy (NYSE: PLA) entertained any possible buyers, so founder Hugh Hefner has decided enough is enough; h… Read more »
