Time Warner will put its magazine titles, including People and Sports Illustrated, into a separate company later this year. The move is a surprise as the publishing world had expected the company to sell most its publications to Iowa-based Meredith. Read more »
All-you-can-read digital magazine app Next Issue Media is expanding from iPad to Windows 8. The company partnered with Microsoft and hopes that users will want to read digital magazines across their devices. Read more »
Time Warner is reportedly looking to sell off most of its magazines to Meredith, the publisher of titles like Better Homes and Gardens and Ladies’ Home Journal. Read more »
A growing army of bots are doing everything from leaving comments to entering sweepstakes, harming the online environment for both publishers and advertisers. Solve Media has a study on the problem. Read more »
Next Issue Media’s tablet magazines are finally available for the iPad, three months after the platform launched on Android 3.0. Users can read popular magazines like People, Vogue and the New Yorker for a flat monthly fee. So is the cost worth it? Read more »
Troubled Boston-based publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which restructured and emerged from bankruptcy last month, is apparently back and ready to make its books available on all devices, including those that are not available yet. Is that a smart strategy? Read more »
It’s all about the platform — except when it isn’t: Speakers at paidContent 2012 spoke about the opportunities, challenges and constraints of creating digital content. Read more »
The biggest challenge for a media company like Meredith is shifting focus to consumer engagement across platforms, Meredith’s Liz Schimel said at paidContent 2012. Part of that means making the brands available on the right platforms, but not all platforms. Read more »
Magazine joint venture Next Issue Media goes live with its long-delayed digital newsstand. Users will be able to read popular magazines for a flat fee — if they have a tablet running Android 3.0 or later. For now, iPad and Kindle Fire users need not apply. Read more »
Meredith (NYSE: MDP) Corporation, the publisher of women’s magazines like Better Homes & Gardens and Ladies’ Home Journal, is the new owner… Read more »
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 »
Meredith (NYSE: MDP) Corp.’s acquisition of EatingWell Media Group and its launch of tips and coupons food site Recipe.com this morning is… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Meredith (NYSE: MDP) has acquired the outstanding shares in mobile agency The Hyperfactory. Terms were not disclosed. Read more »
Maybe there is something to the notion that media companies are experiencing a comeback, as online ad rev at Meredith (NYSE: MDP) Interactiv… Read more »
After working together for years through a trade association, a dozen broadcasters are now forming a financially-backed joint venture to dev… Read more »
Meredith (NYSE: MDP) is reorganizing its National Media Group to streamline its digital content creation and sales and marketing efforts and… Read more »
Print advertising declines may have eased a bit, but magazines are still struggling. Women’s magazine publisher Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP) h… Read more »
News video-sharing and clipping service Redlasso has relaunched, giving bloggers access to video and audio clips from over 100 TV stations.… Read more »
