New Biz Dev, Finance Hires At Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) kicks off the new year with four new hires: Russell Brown as SVP, consumer products licensing; C… Read more »
Hearst U.S. Digital Biz 'Solidly Profitable For The First Time' In '11
In a New Year letter to employees, Hearst president David Carey reiterated that the company’s target this year is to reach over 1 million pa… Read more »
Highlights Of 2011: The Year In Paid Content, By The Numbers
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This is the last in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we cov… Read more »
Axel Springer Becomes Industry's Latest Newsstand And Flipboard Clone
photo: Axel Springer
The latest Flipboard-esque print-like tablet aggregator comes from the publisher of the most read newspaper in the west. Read more »
Is There A Business Model To Support Some Of The Great New Curation Tools?
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I love talking about the things I enjoy using. The emerging ecosystem in which a bunch of smart people curate long form journalism is defini… Read more »
120 Years Of 'Vogue,' Online For $1,575
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In fashion, they say, what goes around comes around. Now designers, fashionistas and historians — as well as advertisers and the simply cur… Read more »
MSLO And J.C. Penney Bake Up A Strategic Deal That Actually Makes Sense
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Some “strategic” investments and partnerships leave you scratching your head looking for the rationale — and questioning the viability of a… Read more »
From Leanback To Stand-Up, iPad's Flipboard Flips To Phone
After demonstrating how tablets trump smartphones and PCs for leisurely and long-form reading, iPad’s new wave of magazine-like content aggr… Read more »
One Pressing Question For Time Inc's Lang: What To Do About Apple
When Digitas head Laura Lang starts her new job as CEO of Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) in January, she’s not only going to be filling the nine mont… Read more »
Consumer Reports Launches iPad Subscriptions, 7 New Smartphone Apps
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Consumer Reports, which named the iPad the top tablet earlier this year, is now adding subscriptions and free access for print subscribers t… Read more »
Hearst's Carey: We Will Have One Million Paying Digital Subscribers In 2012
On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, ano… Read more »
Digitas CEO Laura Lang To Head Time Inc.
Nine months after he fired Jack Griffin, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes has finally filled the most prominent empty chair at the me… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-30-11
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» FTC Announces 20 Year Privacy Deal With Facebook, Asks To Be ‘Liked’ (paidContent)
» Bets on Spotify’s news – radio… Read more »
Comparing The New Aggregators, Part 2
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As tablets become more of a increasingly popular household fixture, the companies that package content for the devices continue make their o… Read more »
Rolling Stone Releasing Beatles' Guide For iPad; Mag Apps Coming In '12
Rolling Stone magazine will release an iPad app companion this week for its The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide book this week, a… Read more »
Future Aims To Turn U.S. Around With Digital After Swinging To A Loss
Future wants to tackle a worsening U.S. print magazine market by merging its UK and U.S. businesses and by more quickly converting its Ameri… Read more »
Prometheus Execs Make Their Exodus, As Billboard Searches For Direction
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Over the past few weeks, as Prometheus Global Media, the owner of b-to-b trade magazines Adweek, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and Back… Read more »
With The Kindle Yet To Hit China, ZTE And China Unicom Grow E-Book Venture
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has a substantial operation in China, but it has yet to take its Kindle e-reader into that market. That has left the doo… Read more »
MPA: Majority Of Digital Magazine Readers Want In-App, E-Commerce Features
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Although advertising is the strongest part of print magazine publishers’ revenues streams, that area has been weakening for some time. In it… Read more »
The Atlantic Now Gets 'More Than Half' Of Its Ad Revenues From Digital
While every established print publisher is trying to find a way to build up digital advertising revenue to offset eroding print dollars, few… Read more »
Corrected: Nook, Zinio Tie iPad For Magazine Publisher Take-Up
The tablet magazine opportunity is not all about iPad apps.
Although nearly half of U.S. magazine publishers have launched iPad apps, about… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-18-11
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» Yelp Files to Raise $100 Million in IPO of Consumer-Review Internet Site (Bloomberg)
» Has The Kindle Fire Already… Read more »
Updated: Newsstand's Few Early Adopters Have Stolen A March On Laggards
Magazine and news publishers who have not yet joined iOS Newsstand have lost out to the system’s early adopters, according to research data. Read more »
11% Of Magazine Exposures Are Digital-Only, Survey Shows
Eleven percent of U.S. adults’ exposures to magazines are exclusively via digital platforms, new data from GfK MRI says. But with newsstands… Read more »
Condé Nast Partners With Art.com To Reopen Online Image Store
photo: Saul Steinberg, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Store
Condé Nast is relaunching its online image archives store in partnership with online prints and posters retailer Art.com as tries to find a… Read more »
Has The Kindle Fire Already Fragmented Android Tablets?
Amazon’s Kindle Fire was easily the most anticipated Android-based tablet launched in 2011, and could wind up outselling all other contender… Read more »
Longreads Founder Partners With Read It Later
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Longreads founder Mark Armstrong is bringing his long-form journalism curation skills to Read It Later, where he is signing on as editorial… Read more »
Next Issue Media Expands Digital Newsstand Beyond Samsung Galaxy
Next Issue Media, the digitized magazine and newspaper newsstand, has added several more titles from company backers Hearst and Time Inc. (N… Read more »
Village Voice Claims It Owns 'Best Of NYC' Phrase, Sues Rival
photo: Victoria Peckham
The Village Voice made its name as a counter culture icon. Today, though, it pulled a decidedly establishment maneuver by filing a lawsuit a… Read more »
HBO And Sports Illustrated Website To Build Buzz A Year Ahead Of TV Series
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) siblings HBO and Sports Illustrated magazine are collaborating a on a multi-part documentary series entitled Sport i… Read more »
Condé Nast Launches Private Exchange With AdMeld
Although ad sales people at major publishers sometimes like to deride real-time bidding as a “race to the bottom,” fearing that the auction-… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-15-11
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» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launches iTunes Match, But Puts Temporary Hold On New Subscriptions (paidContent)
» Gartner: And… Read more »
More Turmoil At Newsweek/Daily Beast As Three Top Executives Exit
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) CEO Barry Diller told investors this summer that the company could tolerate the continued losses at the combined Newsweek/D… Read more »
Condé Nast Will Add All Its Magazines To Nook Newsstand
The battle of the tablet newsstands continues: Condé Nast is making all 18 of its magazines available for Nook Tablet and Nook Color. Read more »
Kindle Fire, First Reviews: Hot Gadget Or Just Another Lukewarm Tablet?
photo: Amazon
A new day, and a new device to challenge Apple’s iPad in the market for tablets. Read more »
Kindle Fire: 'Also, Barnes & Noble, We Will Have A Newsstand'
photo: Amazon
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) have sent out so many press releases about their respective upcoming tablets this week th… Read more »
Condé Nast Marries Print And iPad Subscriptions In UK
Condé Nast is finally allowing UK print subscribers to its magazines to access the same magazines inside corresponding iPad apps, by inputt… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-10-11
» ‘I Am Not Incompetent’ – James Murdoch Defends Himself (paidContent)
» Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Buys Voice-To-Text Start… Read more »
By Selling Stake In LMK, Hearst Sharpens Its Focus As A Tech Incubator
Hearst’s sale of a majority stake in its niche entertainment topics site/app collection LMK to digital holding company Black Ocean may not h… Read more »
MSLO Hires iVIllage's Lagani To Oversee Ad Sales
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) has hired ad sales veteran Joe Lagani to the newly-created post of chief revenue officer as the… Read more »
