Since the explosion of Twitter (the 140 character mini blog feed website) in 2008, MINONLINE has been following about 100 magazines on Twitter. Min has also begun working on a directory of magazines that are on Twitter. Everyone tweets differently, some magazines tweet about top stories, while others tweet about celebrity sightings. One thing [...]
A look into the future, who will survive? who will fail? what else will emerge? Foliomag.com (Dec. 18, 2008)
A multitude of familiar Western magazines have hit newsstands in India in the past 12 months, including Indian versions of Vogue, Rolling Stone, OK!, Hello, Maxim, FHM, Golf Digest, People and Marie Claire. GQ and Fortune are expected follow suit. However, many of the magazines bear little resemblance to their Western namesakes. [...]
Folio revisits some of the 2008 predictions made last December by executives and industry insiders, and asking once again what it looks like ahead? The answers and outlook for most of the magazine universe is bleak. Folio (July 7, 2008)
Hearst Magazines announced that it will shutter Quick & Simple magazine effective with the July 29th issue that is currently on newsstands. The company will instead shift its focus to the 300,000-circulation magazine’s “newly enhanced Web site.” A representative for Hearst said that the company was still “committed to introducing and acquiring print titles, investing [...]
News International is set to close its magazine division, News Magazines, according to a spokeswoman in the U.K. on Wednesday. The division published three magazines — the real-life magazine Love It, the Sunday Times Travel and Skymag. The ultimate fates of these three titles have not yet been determined but the plan is to sell [...]
The first quarter of national magazine advertising spending was not kind to the publishers, as it dropped 1.3 percent from the same period last year according to Nielson Company’s Monitor–Plus information service. B-to-B advertising also declined 6.1 percent. This is all while Sunday supplements made significant gains, a 19.2 percent increase over last year. Folio [...]
The Guardian columnist Will Hodgkinson takes an in depth look at life on the newsstands, the challenges for magazines in an age of media fragementation, and why for some magazine sales continue to grow. The Guardian (Nov. 19, 2007)
Condé Nast has introduced a beta version of the W magazine website, available at Wmagazine.com. The ‘official’ launch of the website, planned for January, signals a new line of thinking, with regards to developing stand alone websites for its titles. Condé Nast had previously bundled content from its magazines into themed destination sites, including Style.com, [...]