Posts Tagged "Magazine news"

Exor, the investment vehicle of the Agnelli family will acquire most of Pearson’s stake

Digital publishing consultancy Mequoda Group has released the results of its third Digital Magazine Market Study

According to a press release sent out this morning, more than 300,000 free copies of the title will be distributed nationally in stations, universities and “retail partners”

Angel Business Communications has launched a new digital magazine platform, Publishing Ninja, and is offering it to other publishers

15 MAG titles have launched brand new digital editions, to join the likes of Gramophone, Songlines and Jazzwise on the Exact Editions platform

The head of the Economist Group has promised a return to revenue growth in the next twelve months, after falling print advertising caused a third successive year of declining sales. Chris Stibbs said the company — which owns the Economist magazine and other information businesses — had lost about £50m, or 46 per cent of the […]

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

Founder of the Week, on why the magazine has become more relevant, why it hasn’t changed in 20 years – and his saviour Felix Dennis

Sarah McConville, vice president of marketing at Harvard Business Review (HBR) Group and publisher of Harvard Business Review Press spoke to Jon Watkins about how data and analytics are driving the evolution of the HBR brand

The Mark Allen Group has been shortlisted for the Ones to Recognise category by the Sunday Times BDO Profit Track Awards scheme for achieving significant year-on-year growth over the last three years.

Airlines have taken a fundamentally different approach to their market. Rather than continue to battle one another to the bottom with discount pricing, the industry is now widely practicing what’s called “capacity discipline.” For the full story read FIPP

While mainstream magazines are seeing sales fall, and long-standing titles such as Loaded are printing their final issues, the world of niche, independent mags is going from strength to strength

Trade magazines often have to adjust to their businesses to mirror the expansions and consolidations going on amongst readers and advertisers

Martin Sorrell, the chief executive officer at WPP, says newspapers and magazines might not be getting the credit they deserve

With the Readly app, Imagine magazines will be available on iOS and Android devices in 250 countries. The app, which has been described as “the Spotify or Netflix of reading”, offers unlimited content at a low fixed price. Imagine’s portfolio of magazines includes How It Works, All About History, iCreate, Digital Photographer, Photoshop Creative, Games™, History of War and World of Animals

Called Economist Films, the unit promises “high-end, factual programmes that capture the voice and identity of The Economist”. The service will be available for brands to sponsor an episode or a series, but they will have no influence over the editorial content, the publisher has clarified. The Economist launched an expanded native advertising offering in […]

NME staff are understood to have been told that discussions have been held with promoters and partners about the prospect of the magazine going free

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

The march of native advertising continued this week, as Forbes dispensed with another traditional taboo. It put a native ad on the cover of its print edition for the March 2, 2015 issue, due out on newsstands on Monday.

The picture is stark – people in the UK are continuing to buy fewer magazines, with total circulations in the marketplace tumbling by more than 15 million copies in 2014.