Conde Nast Tests The Water For Wired In Germany
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After launching UK and Italian editions of Wired magazine in 2009, Conde Nast is now considering a German edition. Read more »
Parenting Site Gurgle Goes In To Print
The parenting website Gurgle.com is the latest online property to launch a printed media adjunct.
Its bi-monthly Gurgle magazine will be pr… Read more »
Time Warner Publishing Revs Remain Flat, Despite Ad Gains
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Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s filmed entertainment and publishing segments experienced a fairly uneven quarter as its networks business, through… Read more »
Hearst Adopts AOL ‘Large Format’ Ads
As AOL (NYSE: AOL) prepares for its Q1 earnings on Wednesday morning — and the expectation that it will have reduced declines in display ad… Read more »
New York Magazine E-Newsletter To Aggregate Weekly Deals
New York magazine is about to launch a weekly “deals” e-newsletter and online adjunct, but instead of matching offers play to advertisers, i… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-02-11
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» How the Bin Laden announcement leaked out on Twitter. (Media Decoder)
Dish, Echostar (NSDQ: SATS) Settle Long-Running Patent D… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-02-11: Apple Cloud; Huawei/ZTE; Time/Apple; Free Apps
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Time (NYSE: TWX) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reach a “free content” deal; more possible deta… Read more »
MSLO’s Print Ads Post Small Gain As Digital Dollars Jump
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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s digital revenues rose 55 percent in Q1 as the company marshaled its print, cable, radio outlets into apps… Read more »
Is The Mag Recovery Over? Meredith Profits, Revenues Drop On Ad Pullback
While newspapers’ ad revenues continue to be depressed at the major publishers, magazines have tended to keep their collective head above wa… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-26-11
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» YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) On The Verge Of A Big Movie Upgrade? (paidContent)
» St. Louis Post Dispatch owner Lee Enterpr… Read more »
Why The Nook Upgrade Is A Big Deal For The E-Reader Market
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That’s right, I said e-readers. True, it looks like a tablet, runs like a tablet, and delivers a lot of the value tablets deliver, but the N… Read more »
Berner Out As Reader’s Digest CEO, Replaced By CFO Williams
The new board at the Reader’s Digest Association is already making some big changes at the top: CEO Mary Berner will be leaving RDA after fo… Read more »
Magazine Publishers Scramble To Streamline Their App Production
Magazine publishers are not only trying to pack more features and content into their apps — they’re also trying to design for an ever-growi… Read more »
NatMag, Johnston Add Some Mobile Offerings
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Hearst’s UK magazine publisher NatMag is launching what it says is its first ever mobile products – simple mobile websites for just two of i… Read more »
The ‘New’ Adweek: Bigger, Bolder And Reaching For Relevance
When the new issue of Adweek is laid out with the other trade magazines in the reception areas of advertising agencies, TV networks and medi… Read more »
Flipboard Raises $50 Million Round At A $200 Million Valuation
Social reader app Flipboard says it has raised a $50 million funding round at a staggering $200 million valuation. The new money, which come… Read more »
Oprah OWNs Prime Flipboard Real Estate In First-Of-A-Kind Deal For iPad Mag
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Flipboard isn’t making money from publishers yet but it’s getting closer. A deal with Oprah that goes live today marks the first time that t… Read more »
Newsweek Daily Beast Executive Chairman Harman Dies At 92
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Dr. Sidney Harman, the founder and chairman emeritus of audio and electronics company Harman International who bought Newsweek magazine and… Read more »
A Magazine About Death Comes Back From The Dead On The Web
As an emblem for the state of publishing, Eulogy, a new magazine about death and bereavement, could scarcely have been more apt. And then, w… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-12-11
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» NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) visits are off as much as 15 percent a day since the debut of its paywall. (paidContent)
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Bloomberg BusinessWeek Launches iPad App With Monthly Subscription Plan
Bloomberg BusinessWeek could not have picked a better time to launch its iPad app. A year after a major overhaul following the sale from McG… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-08-11
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» Sony (NYSE: SNE) slashes PlayStation Portable prices by 24 percent in Europe to boost adoption. (Bloomberg)
» Ganne… Read more »
PIB: Magazine Ad Pages Continue To Grow, Albeit Slowly
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Magazine ad pages grew 2.5 percent in the first three months of 2011 compared to the same period last year, a time when the ad recovery was… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-05-11
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» Satellite TV system Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) is partnering with cross-platform pay-TV venture Epix, which is backed by Paramou… Read more »
Bonnier Gives Away Its New iPad Magazine Builder
The latest new vendor hoping to power publishers’ tablet magazines has one of the slickest systems so far.
As we revealed last month, Bonni… Read more »
The Week Unveils Free Mobile Apps; Holding Off On Tablet Version
While magazines and newspapers are trying to figure out the various ways to charge for accessing their sites and apps, news mag aggregator (… Read more »
How UBM’s ‘Project Caxton’ Brainstorms Content Strategy
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Right now, almost all United Business Media’s magazine websites are free. And, although the B2B publisher wants to extract more money from t… Read more »
Hearst Promotes Swartz To COO; Aldam To Run Newspaper Division
Steven Swartz, who has run Hearst Newspapers since joining the company 2001, has been named chief operating officer of Hearst Corp. As Swart… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-30-11
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» Bonnier’s Popular Science iPad edition has sold 10,000 subscriptions — but only Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) knows who they are. (AdAge)… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-29-11
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» New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Digital Subscriptions: The Unofficial FAQ Updated (paidContent … Also, see our Staci D. Kramer on… Read more »
Computer Weekly Magazine Killed After 45 Years, As Website Is Sold
Yet another Reed Business Information selloff — it is selling its Computer Weekly magazine’s website and events to IT publisher TechTarget… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-28-11
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» The metered pay model kicks off in the U.S. today and the plan’s most dangerous foe: Perception (paidContent)
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Autosport Magazine Expects New Android App To Overtake iOS
Still high on iOS fumes, many media companies have remained slow to roll out on Android, despite the clear market opportunity and despite va… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-25-11
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» Condé Nast has brought back consultancy McKinsey & Co. Though this time it’s not to lay off waves of staffers, but to assess g… Read more »
Cordray Exits Hearst Magazines For Pitney Bowes’ Volly
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After five years as one of the top digital executives at Hearst Magazines, Chuck Cordray is leaving the company to become president of Pitne… Read more »
Google Is Not About To Become A Magazine Publisher
With chatter like a YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) investment in original content, one could be forgiven for wondering if Google’s declaration – that… Read more »
E-Mags Can Now Count In Circ Figures Even If They Don’t Have The Print Ads
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Just a year after the Audit Bureau of Circulations decided to modify the requirements for counting sales of a digital magazine in the U.S. a… Read more »
Beckman Denies Plans To Sell Former Nielsen B2B Mags
Prometheus Global Media CEO Richard Beckman is denying that the company is considering selling the b2b publications it bought from Nielsen o… Read more »
Publishers Lobby And Re-Group On Digital Policy
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German magazine publishers aim to lobby the G8 nations to defend them against Apple’s subscription policy, while an editors group has spun o… Read more »
Project iPad Mag Flips To Free Thanks To AmEx Sponsorship
Virgin’s Project magazine is now doing a backward version of the drug pusher strategy.
Four months after its debut, with many a technical p… Read more »
