Flashes&Flames: Facebook and all those bloggers and vloggers have shredded the magazine market. “Me time” used to describe readers’ relationships with their favourite magazines; now it belongs to social media. For enduring brands, print is becoming ancillary to digital services. Many will still prosper, but magazines are becoming a much smaller business
“The soul and spirit of the company Axel Springer is journalism. We serve our readers with independent and critical information and advice as well as good entertainment. Through our media offerings we are making a contribution to the strengthening of freedom and democracy. “
No media business is even close to where it wants to be. Traditional companies struggle to hang on to print cashflows while competing with digital newbies which have all the flair but no sustainable profits. Young, digital-only, low-cost, small-team insurgents are fighting the unfair fight with the beasts of media pre-history. One business model is broken and the other is unproven.
It’s a fair bet that 2016 will be the year of ever more ambitious collaborations between traditional media and digital disrupters. We have seen the Alibaba and Jeff Bezos acquisitions of the South China Post and the Washington Post respectively, the Axel Springer buy-out of Business Insider, and legacy media investments in BuzzFeed, Vox, and Vice News. These will surely be followed by a new wave of deals and collaborations. But with a difference
In 1994, he left a well-paid job in a Wall Street hedge fund and thought he would try something bold while the internet was young
In 2012, Farmers Guardian was acquired by Briefing Media, a start-up led by Neil Thackray who has spent almost 30 years managing the highs and lows of publishing and events for some of Europe’s largest B2B companies
It is almost 200 years since the UK’s pioneering railway network created the opportunity for daily newspapers to reach breakfast tables in every corner of the country. That led to decades of soaring power, prestige and profits. The newspapers of “Fleet Street” (named after their historic location) became as important to Brits as Shakespeare, the […]
For almost 50 years, Haymarket has been an innovative force in specialist magazines, exhibitions, content marketing, and information services
Almost 300 years ago, a posh Brit called Edward Cave published the world’s first magazine. Last week, 300 metres from the London birthplace of The Gentleman’s Magazine, Cave’s 21st century successors were whipping themselves into a frenzy of enthusiasm that belied industry statistics of falling revenue, profit and readership
Hero: Chris Anderson: He is the former magazine publisher, journalist and internet entrepreneur who is the ‘curator’ of TED, responsible for the eponymous conference which began 31 years ago in Monterey and has been a world-watching annual event since 1990
BSkyB, now (again) re-named Sky, has had a remarkable quarter-century – and not only with its pioneering and innovative coverage of British football. It owns and operates the UK’s largest portfolio of pay TV channels across entertainment, sports, movies – and also news. For the full blog read Flashes&Flames
For all the talk of ‘digital first’, most dailies are still dominated by the economics and culture of print. But, even those with growing online audiences must now make a real strategic leap.
What is it about daily newspapers? Falling circulations and advertising have broken business models that cannot be mended even by booming digital audiences. But you wouldn’t guess it.
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.
Everybody is watching Time Inc. the world’s most famous magazine publisher, which created the original newsweekly in 1923, is defined by iconic brands – Fortune, Life, Sports Illustrated, People, Entertainment Weekly, Money, InStyle, and Time itself. Throughout the twentieth century, it set the pace for magazine, newspaper and even TV journalism all over the world
Colin Morrison’s Flashes and Flames predictions for 2015
The trouble is that newspaper and magazine companies are invariably dominated by print people, profits and philosophies. But digital media increasingly needs different (and, yes, younger) people with new skills working in different ways, often with an unruly approach to experimentation and investment
The trouble is that newspaper and magazine companies are invariably dominated by print people, profits and philosophies. But digital media increasingly needs different (and, yes, younger) people with new skills working in different ways, often with an unruly approach to experimentation and investment
Many newspaper bosses still think traditional journalism represents the unique strength that will, somehow, secure their digital future.
Tyler Brûlé is maddening. He was the lauded creator of urban design bible Wallpaper when print was still the hottest thing. Now, he is fast building a media brand based around – of all things – a 300-page printed magazine about global politics, travel, ….
