Advertisers in ESPN The Magazine that buy three more pages than a year ago will also receive exposure on the ESPN Network, as part of an opportunity the company is calling “Magavision.” New advertisers that purchase three pages and returning customers that add three pages to their total will qualify for the free on-air sponsorship [...]
WithThisRing-Magazine.com, a publication aimed at “anything outside traditional white weddings,” is set to re-launch online and hopes to be in print by Spring 2008, just in time for wedding season. Since the California Supreme Court overturned the ban on gay marriage, publisher Jonathan Feit sees this as the perfect opportunity to launch and hopes to [...]
Million Impossible announced it will be launching an on line entrepreneurial magazine site that has a confirmed release date of August 1, 2008. The likeliest name for the magazine is Million Impossible – Dreams to Reality and will feature articles written by successful entrepreneurs about business and lifestyle topics. PR Inside (June 26, 2008)
Taunton Press¸ publisher of hobbyist magazines such as Fine Woodworking, has cut 9 employees from its staff last week. The layoffs come as the company tries to find ways to deal with the down turned economy, which has hit the homebuilding market particularly hard. The company says that while it needs to trim some parts [...]
Jack Kliger, former chairman of the Magazine Publishers of America, is stepping down as president and chief executive officer of Hachette Filipacchi and will become chairman of HFM U.S.; a newly created position. Kliger said that he was hired as chairman of HFM U.S. in order to “develop strategic relationships for the company.” Folio (June [...]
The Texas based, Austin Ventures is said to be the leading candidate in the negotiations to acquire Entrepreneur Media, the publisher of Entrepreneur magazine. Austin Ventures is reportedly offering the $200 million dollars that Entrepreneur Media was seeking. The acquisition has moved on to the due diligence phase and the deal could be finalized [...]
Rocky Mountain TechLine, a Colorado based, regional, information technology magazine is set to launch with 10,000 copies put into circulation this August. The goal of the magazine is to leverage more than 11,000 computer-related enterprises in the state. While the cover price for the magazine is going to be $3.95, the magazine will be mailed [...]
The London-based United Business Media is reportedly considering a merger with the academic, scientific information and events company Informa. This report has been verified on both companies’ websites and is said to only be in the early stages of discussing the all-share merger. Since the potential merger is still in very early stages, it is [...]
Texas Monthly led the pack with 15 total awards at the 2008 City and Regional Magazine Association Awards in Memphis, Tennessee. Los Angeles Magazine was a close second, earning 14 awards of its own. Texas Monthly avenged last year’s second place finish to Los Angeles in the general excellence category by winning this year. SacTown [...]
The Washington Post plans on launching a new unit that will be responsible for creating and managing a series of Web-based magazines. The unit is called The Slate Group and hopes to develop its own audience through these web magazines and eventually move into other forms of media either on its own or through acquisitions. [...]