After last week’s executive reconstruction at Condé Nast, a few more changes have been made. Group president and publishing director, David Carey, named William Li as the new publisher of Portfolio. Prior to this new position, Li was publisher at Men’s Vogue. Tom Florio, who was appointed senior VP and publishing director [...]
Raines’ first column as media critic will appear in Portfolio’s March issue. Folio: reports on other comings and goings at Bonnier, Hearst and Meredith in its “People on the Move” feature. Folio: (Jan. 14, 2008)
…Selling an average of 85,000 newsstand copies with a sell-through percentage of 15-18%. That’s according to anonymous sources cited in Women’s Wear Daily. Portfolio collected some 300,000 subscriptions and racked up 655 advertising pages in 2007. So, how is it doing? The low sell-through numbers are common for new magazines, seeking an audience. As for [...]
Clinton’s campaign contacted the magazine when they learned about “Glamocracy,” a daily blog from five women with differing political views. John McCain’s guest-blog will apparently be billed in some other way. Women’s Wear Daily (Dec. 27, 2007)
Steve Florio died Thursday (12/27/07) of heart complications. He was hospitalized a few weeks ago and had a history of heart problems. Florio was the CEO at Condé Nast from 1994 – 2004 and remained vice chairman until January. Under Mr. Florio’s leadership, Condé Nast expanded from a relatively small company to the second-largest magazine publisher [...]
Skeptical media-buyers can rest easy now that a new study by McPheters & Co. has been done to uncover where public-place magazines reach the largest and most-engaged audiences. The study, which was funded by Bonnier Corp., BusinessWeek, CMS, Conde Nast, Hachette Filipacchi Media, Meredith Corp., Magazine Publishers of America, Time Inc., Primedia, Reader’s Digest, and TV Guide; [...]
MinOnline organized a list of the top magazine launches of 2007. Conde Nast’s Portfolio, National Geographic’s Little Kids, Garden and Gun, Forbes Life Executive Woman, Highlights High Five, Hip Hop Weekly, Jewish Living, Outside’s Go, and Science Illustrated are all high on the 17-titled list. The number 1 most notable magazine launch was Bond, a relationship [...]
NYP Media Ink columnist Keith Kelly gives the breathless account of who sat next to whom and what it all means, in his inimitable “Payton-Place-of-Publishing” style. New York Post (Nov. 29, 2007)
The move comes on the heels of other distribution deals with MSNBC and Yahoo, and amidst indications that the Condé Nast’s digital strategy of topic-based websites that do mirror the publisher’s printed magazine brands may be paying off. Traffic to CondéNet websites increased 16% in October to 9.4 million unique U.S. visitors from the same period last [...]
It doesn’t suit everyone’s taste, however. Washington Post “Magazine Reader” Peter Carlson offers a dyspeptic review of the December issue. Washington Post (Nov. 27, 2007)