The Neilsen Co. surveyed more than 27,000 consumers in 52 countries to find out their feelings about paying for online media subscriptions. Movies and music top the list of services that people would be willing to pay for online, approaching 60%. Games, professionally produced video and magazines hover around 50% and newspapers are just above [...]
ABC’s Rapid Report has some promising news for Women’s Titles. Paid subscriptions saw meaningful improvement during the second half of 2009. Most major titles in the Women’s category saw slight to moderate increases compared to the same period the year before. The titles that saw the biggest increases are Time Inc.’s InStyle, Meredith’ Siempre Mujer, Condé [...]
In an effort to get back revenue that his print outlets have been losing, Rupert Murdoch is planning to charge for subscriptions to all of NewsCorp’s online content. This would probably include news websites like Dow Jones, Marketwatch, Financial News, and The New York Post to name a few. NewsCorp-owned Wall Street Journal was one [...]
Targeting African-American and “multicultural” women aged 18 to 34, Juicy will contain hybrid editorial, covering celebrities, plus hair and beauty. Harris plans four issues this year with an increase to 12 in 2011. Folio: Jan. 26, 2010
The current tough economy is an aggravating factor, but the principal cause of a projected $16 billion industry-wide loss from 2007 to 2014 will be the “relentless adoption of digital formats.” MinOnline Jan. 26, 2010
In a lengthy piece about the influences that shape the thinking of Barack Obama, David Axelrod, a senior White House advisor, says that the President reads “magazines like crazy,” including The New Yorker, The Economist, Sports Illustrated and Rolling Stone. The Washington Post Jan. 25, 2010
The March Spring Fashion issues — for fashion glossies often the second-biggest-selling issue of the year — suggest that 2010 will be better than a disastrous 2009 for magazines. Advertising pages at Elle, Harpers Bazaar and Vogue were all up in March versus prior year. InStyle enjoyed a whopping 33.5% increase. The New York Post [...]
Penny Publications, the leading publisher of puzzle magazines in North America, has signed a new agreement with Comag Marketing Group LLC (CMG) for the continued sale, marketing and distribution of all of its titles – under both the Penny Press and Dell Magazine brands – in the United States, Canada and abroad. The agreement was [...]
Ms. Sanders has served as the publisher of Condé Nast’s Lucky magazine. The New York Post Jan. 21, 2010
Newsstand sales are declining, venerable titles are closing and advertising revenue fell by 18% in 2009. Worse, according to Mr. Magazine Samir Husni, is that some publishers seem to believe that the good old days of 2007 will return with an improving economy. Husni says that that publishers need to revamp their economic models more [...]