Comag Marketing Group, LLC » Condé Nast Publications http://www.i-cmg.com Single copy sales strategies and supply chain solutions for the world’s leading magazines Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:50:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 J.Lo’s First Post-Split Interview http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/j-los-first-post-split-interview/ http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/j-los-first-post-split-interview/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:00:11 +0000 Kim http://www.i-cmg.com/?p=4043 Vanity Fair’s annual Style Issue hits stands this month!  Be sure to pick up a copy and find out who made their 72nd International Best-Dressed List.  And find out what made her marriage fizzle out in the exclusive first post-split interview with J.Lo.  Vanity Fair also investigates the hacking scandal that’s taking over the media.

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]]> http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/conde-revamps-w/feed/ 0 GQ’s iPhone Application Wins Fans http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/gqs-iphone-application-wins-fans/ http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/gqs-iphone-application-wins-fans/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:36:05 +0000 Jennifer http://www.i-cmg.com/?p=2801 The numbers are small, but growing, of people willing to pay $2.99 for an iPhone-app-version of an issue of GQ magazine.  “Condé Nast President-CEO Charles Townsend has said that the app platform it has developed is mainly a way to get in position to play on tablets.”  Advertising Age Jan. 21, 2010

]]> http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/gqs-iphone-application-wins-fans/feed/ 0 New Life — and Mission — for Portfolio.com http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/new-life-and-mission-for-portfolio-com/ http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/new-life-and-mission-for-portfolio-com/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:15:03 +0000 Jennifer http://www.i-cmg.com/?p=2646 While Condé Nast’s Portfolio, the glossy, covered big business and its celebrity elite, the new Portfolio.com provides service journalism for small business owners.  The site now features content from some 40 local, weekly business journals and websites of American City Business Journals — itself a unit of Advance Publications.  The New York Times Dec. 7, 2009

]]> http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/new-life-and-mission-for-portfolio-com/feed/ 0 Condé Nast Reports 2009 Ad Page Decline http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/conde-nast-reports-2009-ad-page-decline/ http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/conde-nast-reports-2009-ad-page-decline/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:38:38 +0000 Jennifer http://www.i-cmg.com/?p=2572 The publisher reported a year-over-year decline of 8,359 pages, roughly one third, according to estimates it released Wednesday.  The New York Times Nov. 11, 2009

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]]> http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/conde-nast-looks-to-china-to-expand/feed/ 0 Gourmet-Editor-Turned-TV-Star Makes a Prediction about Magazines http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/gourmet-editor-turned-tv-star-makes-a-prediction-about-magazines/ http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/gourmet-editor-turned-tv-star-makes-a-prediction-about-magazines/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:49:58 +0000 Jennifer http://www.i-cmg.com/?p=2456 At a party celebrating her new TV show, Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth, the former editor of Gourmet magazine, Ruth Reichl, expressed grave concern about the future of magazines, “as we know them.”  The New York Observer Oct. 16, 2009

A New York Times review of the new TV show, which airs on PBS television stations,  is available here.

]]> http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/gourmet-editor-turned-tv-star-makes-a-prediction-about-magazines/feed/ 0 After the Shock, Savoring 70 Years of Gourmet http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/after-the-shock-savoring-70-years-of-gourmet/ http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/after-the-shock-savoring-70-years-of-gourmet/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:27:55 +0000 Jennifer http://www.i-cmg.com/?p=2401 Among the fond recollections is this bit of high praise from Manhattan baker Jim Lahey, “Gourmet was the New Yorker of food magazines…”  The New York Times Oct. 7, 2009  The Wall Street Journal Oct. 6, 2009  Paid subscription may be required.

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]]> http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/gourmands-will-miss-gourmet/feed/ 0 Teen Vogue to Publish a “How-to” Guide to the Fashion Industry http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/teen-vogue-to-publish-a-how-to-guide-to-the-fashion-industry/ http://www.i-cmg.com/index.php/teen-vogue-to-publish-a-how-to-guide-to-the-fashion-industry/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:26:17 +0000 Jennifer http://www.i-cmg.com/?p=2377 Although the number of fashion industry jobs is on the decline — NPD group expects 12% of fashion companies won’t make it through the recession — young people are still eager to join the ranks.  Thank the industry’s outsized place in popular culture for the mismatch.  So, taking a page from the “Give the (Young) People What They Want” playbook, Teen Vogue will release a guide to getting into the business called, “The Teen Vogue Handbook.”  It’s due out next month.  The New York Times Sept. 10, 2009

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