Posts Tagged "Digital disruption"

Loaded magazine, one of the so-called “lads’ magazines” of the mid-1990s, is to close down this week, publisher Simian said

Digital advertising is expected to grow by 12% this year to £8.1bn, according to eMarketer. Digital advertising is expected to grow by 12% this year to £8.1bn, making the UK the first country in which £1 in every £2 will go on digital media

Time was when business-to-business media groups seemed the least likely to be disrupted by the web. Media executives routinely boasted that the success of occupational business magazines for everyone from engineers to doctors and farmers to retailers was based on “need to know” information – rather than the “nice to know”content of, say, consumer magazines

Several leading publishers throughout the globe have teamed to form the Pangaea Alliance, a digital ad offering fueled by programmatic. Founding partners of Pangaea include The Guardian, CNN International, Financial Times and Reuters

When it comes to digital-to-print developments, commentators often refer to internet pureplays entering the world of print – Net-a-Porter with Porter, Airbnb with Pineapple, and so on

Millennials could not be more different to the baby boomers who built the current media industry during 50 years of revenue boom – before the web pushed the walls down.

UBM has cut 70-80 positions as it continues its reorganization under its events-first strategy, Folio: has learned. The cuts have happened over the last couple of days and are primarily centered in its UBM Tech division, representing brands that don’t directly support the event- and community-centric strategy. For the full story read Folio

It’s a hit with the millennial generation and predicts revenue of $1bn this year, so what can young company teach its rivals

For all the focus on social media and the next generation of bright shiny communications technologies, the most important “digital tool” in the workforce is one of its oldest — email. Social media, by contrast, barely even registers, according to the most recent findings from the Pew Research Center’s ongoing tracking study on the way the Internet impacts society

The US newspaper, which has accelerated its search for digital revenues since being bought by Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos for $250m last year, has been approached about licensing the software it has developed to power its website

Emap, the publisher of trade magazines from Retail Week to Drapers, is expected to report its highest growth for 13 years, as a result of a recovery plan instituted by chief executive Natasha Christie-Miller

So it’s farewell to the Reading Post, which has just published its final issue after its owner, Trinity Mirror, decided to stop publishing its newsprint version. For the full story read The Guardian

In a new twist in the long running antitrust case against Apple, an appeals court on Monday cast doubt on the Justice Department’s theory that the company brokered an illegal conspiracy among book publishers, and asked instead why the government’s focus has not been on Amazon

Hachette Book Group will start selling books straight from tweets, though it can’t be labeled more than an experiment for now: The publisher has partnered with digital distributor Gumroad to sell three gifty print books “for a limited time and in limited quantities” via the books’ authors’ tweets. For the full story read GIGAOM

Colin Morrison’s latest blog looks at Tom Bureau and Immediate Media

According to a forecast by eMarketeer the UK operations of Google and Facebook will make a combined £4.1bn in 2015, a 50.8% share of the total expected to be spent on ads on websites, smartphones, online video and social media next year

In his GIGAOM blog Matthew Ingram says that we should be careful not to conflate the issue of declining staff levels in traditional newsrooms with the health of journalism overall

Group M, the worldwide media buying arm of the market services company WPP, has forecast that the total UK ad market will hit £15.7bn in 2015. Within this online spend is forecast to grow 12.7% year-on-year to break the £8bn mark, making the UK the first in which more than £1 in every £2 of ad spend will go on digital media

While true that print in general is in decline, faster in some segments than others (with some showing resilience and even growth) and faster in some markets than others, print alone cannot be held as the yardstick for magazine media’s health anymore

The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday reported a 5% decline in total revenue to £536m. Print advertising revenues fell 5% while circulation revenues dropped 4%