If reports originating from Bloomberg are true, Apple is making a renewed foray into the world of publishing with the launch of a news and magazine subscription service. The reports aren’t entirely
Category: Magazines
Is it time to put your magazine out of its misery?
Many magazines are barely keeping their heads above water. And with further print advertising declines, more paper price increases, a newsstand system that’s circling the drain and the prospect of huge postal increases, it’s
Condé Nast’s launch of GQ Middle East poses a stern cultural challenge
GQ Middle East will be launched in September 2018, it has been announced by Jonathan Newhouse, Chairman and Chief Executive of Condé Nast International. The launch of GQ Middle East, the twenty-first
Future Publishing confirms Newbay Media acquisition
Future Publishing has confirmed its purchase of US content business Newbay Media for £13.8m, broadening the publisher’s reach across conferences, magazines, events, digital content and data services. Based in New York and London,
The Economist and FT both hired Cambridge Analytica for US Expansion
Two of Britain’s most prestigious media brands, the Economist and the Financial Times, hired controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica to help them get more subscribers in the United States. Both the Economist
Walmart pulls Cosmopolitan from US store checkouts
The retailer called it “primarily a business decision,” but acknowledged pressure from campaigns against the magazine’s sexual content. Cosmopolitan will soon be removed from checkouts at Walmart stores across the US, according to
How The Economist engages young audiences on Snapchat Discover
Embracing Snapchat has ‘led to the biggest step change’ in its readership since The Economist was founded in 1843. The Economist has been using Snapchat Discover since October 2016, joining over 40
Media 10 reveals its secret to readership growth through event and magazine partnerships
Media 10 is a privately-held independent publisher and events company owning a portfolio of 13 publications, 39 websites and 30 live events. Headquartered in London, the company owns and runs some of
How The New Yorker plans to double its paid circulation to 2 million
The New Yorker belongs to a rare club of publications whose revenue from readers exceeds that of advertisers. Total paid circulation for the highbrow weekly rose 12.3 percent last year to 1.2
Apple is buying Texture, the digital magazine distributor
Apple has purchased Texture, a digital magazine distributor and subscription service that lets users consume all or part of more than 200 magazines. The service works on both Apple and Android devices, and Apple says
How publishers can use personalised print to better connect buyers & sellers
How do we as an industry help to drive change and create revenue opportunities for niche magazines and the organizations that use them as their main communication vehicles, whether they are B2B,
NME closes print edition after 66 years
Iconic UK music title NME is to cease publication in print after 66 years, the weekly title joining a long list of legendary magazine brands that now only exist online. The NME.com website will
Print is still big business in magazine media
Far from dead, print continues to be a critically important product for publishers. The last decade has seen massive shifts in magazine media, in part due to digital publishing startups that are competing
PPA collaborates with publishers and retailers to drive print magazine sales
The Professional Publishers Association (PPA) is collaborating with publishing houses and retailers in a campaign to drive single copy print magazine sales. Entitled Press Pause, the UK campaign is being backed by
Latest ABCs: UK women’s weekly mags tumble 11%
The UK’s highest-selling consumer magazine publishers, Hearst and Bauer, were 5% and 3% down respectively in the six months from July to December 2017 according to the latest ABC (Audit Bureau of
Hearst UK acquires leading wellbeing and luxury watch brands
Hearst UK has agreed a deal with Telegraph Events to acquire Be:FIT, the UK’s largest and leading fitness and well-being festival for women, Salon QP, the UK’s premier luxury watch fair and QP
Wired halves print output amid ‘growing digital demands’
Wired UK has stopped releasing print issues on a monthly basis and will instead to go to press just six times a year, the tech magazine has announced. In a note from editor
The death of Newsweek
The U.S. is losing something as the publication disintegrates—a magazine with guts and heart. Newsweek is in the news—raided by the police last month as part of a probe into the owners’ shady
Time Inc.’s overspending – a cautionary tale for publishers
I started as a writer at Time Magazine on a Monday in 1998. I turned up that morning to find the 23rd floor of the Time-Life building, the editorial offices, deserted. Nobody
American Magazine Media Conference: brand affinity and loyal readers will light the way forward
If there’s anything that unites the industry’s top brass, it is a shared fear of Silicon Valley’s impending takeover of not just the digital advertising market, but society as we know it. At the AMMC 2018, that
Expectations of more consolidation hang over NY magazine conference
After a year that saw the sale of magazine stalwarts Time Inc., Rodale and Rolling Stone, there was plenty of black humor at the magazine industry’s annual gathering, the American Magazine Media
Pioneering, community-owned magazine Bristol Cable receives significant investment
Quarterly magazine the Bristol Cable has received a £100,000 grant for two years from ‘philanthropic investment firm’ Omidyar Network. The community-owned title was launched in 2014 by three university friends and publishes