Tag Archives: digital

Shrinking Emap reflects B2B challenges

By May 8 2012, 5:37 pm Leave a comment

Ad spend for B2B magazines has plummeted by two-thirds in the last decade, from £1,022 million in 2001 to just £347 million in 2011

The battle for America: Mail and Guardian look west

By April 10 2011, 6:05 pm Leave a comment

Guardian & MailOnline to launch in New York

The battle between Britain’s newspapers is about to spill onto the streets of New York, as Associated Newspapers and Guardian News & Media both prepare to launch their first dedicated editorial operations in the city that never sleeps. Read more »

Storm clouds gather as Sky retreats from print

By February 28 2011, 10:52 am 5 Comments

BSkyB’s decision to scale back its market-defining customer publishing business could be an ominous bellwether for the magazine industry; is sentiment being put aside for cold economics? Read more »

Murdoch, I-Level and… Claudine dominate media in 2010

By December 23 2010, 2:57 pm Leave a comment

Vince Cable pictured in The Independent

In terms of commercial media, 2010 was always going to be dominated by one man and one company: Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation.

From the outset we expected paywalls and bundled content offerings (Alesia) to be the order of the day, but no one could have foreseen just where we find ourselves today. Read more »

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Do advertisers want to be in Times paywall club?

By November 23 2010, 2:37 pm 1 Comment

Hollywood’s take on the relentless rise of Facebook in The Social
Network is set to pass a milestone of its own this week, when UK box office
takings top £10 million.

It’s still got some way to go to push 2009 blockbuster Avatar (£90m), but
double-digit millions is good going for any film in little old Blighty.

Fiction or not, the fact that David Fincher’s simple and rather contrived plot
makes a plausible story says something about the value people place – or at
least imagine others place – on being seen to be in the right club.
The desire to be part of the right crowd is presented as the driving force
behind Facebook’s real-life founder Mark Zuckerberg, and it got me thinking

about News International’s paywall experiment. Read more »

GroupM to forecast 4% lift in UK ad spend for 2011

By November 19 2010, 11:21 am 4 Comments

Crystal Ball
It’s coming to that time of the year again when crystal balls are dusted off and the world’s media powerhouses pool their internal insights to give us their best predictions for the coming year.

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WAN’s Balding exits as newspapers embrace digital future

By October 27 2010, 1:06 pm Leave a comment

So goodbye then Timothy Balding, the venerable leader of the international press body WAN, who leaves his industry advocate role after 25 years.

Based in Paris, the leader of the World Association of Newspapers was a well-respected figure and admired ambassador for newspapers, but in recent years his stance on the impact of digital upon newspapers had placed him at odds with many commentators, myself included.

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Is UK restructure a backwards step for Carat?

By September 20 2010, 10:37 am Leave a comment

Horler and de Groose, happily united?

So Rob Horler is no longer managing director of Carat, but then neither, yet again, is deputy MD Steve Hobbs, what to make of it all?

A restructure in the UK, announced at the start of the month, catapults long-time consultant Tracy de Groose into Carat’s hot seat, while Hobbs
becomes director of media operations for Aegis Media.

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