The Morning Lowdown 03-16-11
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» After Ad Changes, Yahoo Media Unit Gets a Management Shakeup
» On the Media: Patch.com’s Newark plan smells of conf… Read more »
SI Expands App Horizon With ‘Front Row’ Photos; Flipboard, iPhone, Android
Sports Illustrated’s newest digital product launches today — without a standalone iPad app. Based on a framework developed for use across… Read more »
The Blizzard Digital Football Magazine Launches On Pay-What-You-Want Basis
A group of well-known sports writers keen to “break the shackles” of national newspaper journalism have launched a digital magazine on footb… Read more »
Bonnier Spins Out Its Mag+ Tablet Concept
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Swedish publisher Bonnier, which introduced its Mag+ concept for iPad magazines last year, has now spun the idea out in to separate business… Read more »
Rodale’s Kang To Manage Hearst Magazines’ ‘Content Extensions’
Hearst Magazines is continuing to refine its approach to balancing its print and digital publications and has tapped former Rodale executive… Read more »
Magazine Printer Sold Amid Digital Challenge
St Ives Plc, a printing group, is selling its magazine printing business after it had been buffeted by competition and online ad migration (… Read more »
Condé Nast UK To Invest More In iPad Apps
iPad magazine sales have often failed to live up to their early promise, but Condé Nast Digital Britain is nevertheless upping its investme… Read more »
After E-Commerce Experiments, Hearst Looks More Seriously At Shopping
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In addition to apps and tablets, Hearst Magazines President David Carey provided some general outlines of the company’s e-commerce strategy… Read more »
Hearst’s Carey: Tablets Will Provide 25 Percent Of Magazines’ Circulation
The notion that the iPad was going to save newspapers and magazines had been diminishing somewhat lately, especially since publishers have t… Read more »
Check-In Service GetGlue Signs Deal With Entertainment Weekly
GetGlue, a check-in service for watching TV programs or listening to music, has signed its first publishing partnership with Time (NYSE: TWX… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-07-11
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» Condé Nast’s Glamour is creating an original reality series produced exclusively for the iPad that incorporates e-commerce. No… Read more »
Digital Mag Vendor Exact Extends Its Own iPad Subs Option
While Apple’s subscription announcement continues to make waves in publishing, one of the UK’s biggest sellers of tablet magazine editions i… Read more »
Frank Rich To Exit NYT Op-Ed Page For New York Magazine
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After more than 30 years at the New York Times, Frank Rich is departing the newspaper to write a column for New York magazine and its websit… Read more »
Hearst Exec Shuffle: Khemlani Succeeds Kliavkoff; Parrish Joins DailyCandy
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With George Kliavkoff now heading up Hearst bill payment management start-up Manilla, Neeraj Khemlani has been named to succeed him as EVP &… Read more »
National Magazine Awards To Include Magazine Apps This Year
It’s an honor just to be nominated, the saying goes, and less than a year after major publishers rolled out magazine apps, tablet-based peri… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02-21-11
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» Mobile advertising’s come a long way, but it still has a number of obstacles in the way of truly explosive growth. [WSJ]
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The paidContent Week In Review
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In case you missed it, links to some of the top stories in digital media this week, starting with our full coverage of how Apple (NSDQ: AAPL… Read more »
The ‘Subscription Economy’ Is Growing, And It’s Bigger Than Just Media
Tien Tzuo is CEO of Zuora, a subscription-billing company based in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was the chief strategy officer and chief m… Read more »
Griffin Loses MPA Chairman Post; No Fallout On Ad Business – Yet
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The surprise ouster of Jack Griffin as CEO of Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is also leading to his stepping down as chairman of the MPA, a post he t… Read more »
Insiders: Bewkes Fired Griffin Over Poor Communication, Talent-Drain Fears
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My first thought when I heard that Jeff Bewkes fired Time Inc. CEO Jack Griffin was a sentence I can’t print here. The second one: maybe he… Read more »
Time Inc.’s Hauser To Head Digital Labs, All Women’s Content
Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.’s Fran Hauser is adding “lifestyle” to her role as president of Digital for Time Inc.’s Style & Entertainment groups.… Read more »
The 10-Year View: UK Magazine Sales Hit Another Low
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*ABC* data is out today for UK autumn and winter magazine sales. The industry’s Periodical Publishers’ Association (PPA) optimistically sees… Read more »
New Offerings Raise MSLO Digital Ad Revenue
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) didn’t have a great quarter, but digital, along with broadcasting, were bright spots. Digital ad… Read more »
Apple Subs: Some Publishers Relieved They Dodged A Bullet
Despite concern, many publishers are actually “relieved” – they feared Apple’s new subscription rules would be a lot more damaging. Read more »
@ MWC: Bartz: Our Secret Sauce Is An Editorial Team That’s Always Watching
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz today said an army of editorial curators, not algorithms, who are “always watching” were the “secret sauc… Read more »
Concerned Publishers Group Says ‘Apple Is Not The Only Offer On The Table’
Publishers from across Europe will convene at a hotel at London’s Heathrow Airport on Thursday morning to discuss their response to Apple’s… Read more »
Why The Glass Is Half-Full For Tablet Magazines
Adam Hodgkin is co-founder of digital-editions vendor Exact Editions. This post was reproduced from his company blog with permission.
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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Print Version Offers Videos Via Smartphone
Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is rolling out a mobile campaign for tomorrow’s Sports Ilustrated “Swimsuit Edition” aimed at connecting print readers… Read more »
Condé Nast Launching Digital Editions For Android
Condé Nast is prepping digital editions of The New Yorker and Wired magazines for Google’s Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb) system this spring.… Read more »
Time Inc. Rolls Out ‘All Access’ Sub For Digital, Print – But Not iPad
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Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) unveiled its new “All Access” digital subscription model for Sports Illustrated: one monthly or annual price for prin… Read more »
Time Inc’s Rothenberg: No ‘One-Size-Fits-All Model’ For Subscriptions; HP Up First
The iPad may be the biggest tablet game in town but it’s not the only one and *Time* Inc.’s digital publishing strategy reflects it. The new… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02.08.2011
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» One big question hanging over AOL’s acquisition of The Huffington Post is how its recently hired ad team will do without the ma… Read more »
Digital Head Sarah Chubb Leaving Condé Nast After 20 Years
Sarah Chubb, widely respected as the person who helped form Condé Nast’s digital division over a decade ago, is leaving the company, the pu… Read more »
Why The Daily’s Detractors Are Missing The Point
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The cacophony from people not “getting” The Daily is deafening.
Many ridicule the new publication for not updating every minute of every da… Read more »
MSNBC And Newsweek End Web Traffic Partnership
With the final ink barely dry on the merger between Newsweek and The Daily Beast, MSNBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) has been told that it will no longer s… Read more »
Time Warner Turns In Strong Q4 But DVD Sales, Magazine Subs Take A Hit
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Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) beat revenue and earnings estimates, but the fine print has a few items that aren’t so rosy. Following the same patt… Read more »
Apple’s In-App Rules: ‘Betrayed’ European Publishers Convene A Summit
Publishers in Europe are up in arms over Apple’s decision to reject Sony’s Reader app. They say Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has left them “confused”… Read more »
Interview: John Menzies Reboots Its Digital Publishing Business
John Menzies is returning to digital publishing by launching a consultancy agency to jump aboard booming publisher interest in digital editi… Read more »
Bad News For The Digital Newsstand: Apple Rejects Sony Reader App
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Here’s one that will have the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) watchers puzzling for the next day: Apple has reportedly rejected Sony’s Reader app from it… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-31-11
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» eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is enlisting display specialist Triad Retail Media to help manage its online advertising. Tampa-based Triad w… Read more »
