The websites of People and Sports Illustrated are the top performers, but the total performance of all Time Inc. web properties puts it well ahead of its biggest magazine publisher rivals. Media Ink columnist Keith Kelly also reports on other Time Inc. news, including possible staff reductions (centered in New York City) and the chance [...]
NYP Media Ink columnist Keith Kelly cites an anonymous source in an article about an FBI agent who has been asking questions of paparazzi and others on the Hollywood scene about kickbacks and pay-for-play schemes between a photo agency and a celebrity magazine. Shenanigans of this kind have long been rumored. This time, some celebrity magazine [...]
The New York Post’s Keith Kelly reports on talks between Bono’s investment firm, Elevation Partners, and CurtCo Media, along with the hiring of Wenner talent by Kent Brownridge-run Alpha Media Group. The New York Post (Jan. 9, 2008)
The Folio: website promises to add to the list through the end of the year. Amidst the laments about B2B publishing’s struggles, web-vs-print re-hashes and schadenfreude-sounding predictions about executive shake-ups were a few signs of optimism about magazines. The NYP’s Keith Kelly predicts an ad-page rise of 4% for mags, thanks to the TV/movie writers’ strike and a saturation of [...]
The magazine also plans to move its sales and marketing operations from Washington DC to New York City. Justin Smith, the president of Atlantic Media, has recently prepared a five-year plan to return the venerable title to profitability. He expects to do some hiring in NYC, depending on how many DC staffers elect to make the [...]
The U.S. magazine (cover-priced at $4.99) will re-purpose content already being produced for the publisher’s successful Danish edition. Initial circ. is budgeted at 100,000 with plans to raise it 500,000 within five years. The last launch of a general-interest, science magazine was Discover’s in 1980. The New York Post (Dec. 7, 2007)
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 NYP’s Keith Kelly says it may not be quite so easy — at least not on a regular frequency. Rodale is distributing 400,000 copies of the premiere issue of Men’s Health Living, but is mum about a next issue. And Vogue Living published single issues in 2005 and 2006 before upping the frequency to 2X [...]
Bauer execs acknowledge that In Touch and Life & Style may both be forced to lower their rate bases next year. Sales of the latter title dropped to as low as 450,000 on a recent issue. The New York Post (Nov. 23, 2007)
He will be the fifth publisher in the past five years at the Time Inc. title, which has been shedding ad pages over the past few years. New York Post (Nov. 20, 2007)