Tag Archives: magazines

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

Should ABC carrot and advertiser stick control the press?

By March 30 2012, 8:30 am Leave a comment

The MPs suggestions amount to a serious step-change for our press industry, and if they’d been expressed in any other year, they would most likely have been dismissed for being too heavy-handed. Now there are concerns they don’t go far enough

Embattled Yahoo prepares Livestand launch with magazine publishers

By September 19 2011, 9:19 am Leave a comment

Yahoo’s Blake Irving: “Graphics, videos and text can be displayed in the same way across IoS or [An] Driod. That’s what every publisher on the planet’s trying to do.”

Bauer leads decline as British magazines record historic falls

By August 31 2011, 10:45 am 2 Comments

Bauer’s chief exec Paul Keenan says: “Historically, magazines used to prove themselves to be ‘an affordable luxury’ in times of a downturn and have grown. I think this downturn is different, and the variable that has changed this time around is the amount of competition, both from other magazines and other media.”

Publishers take a bite out of Apple in 2011

By May 6 2011, 9:28 am Leave a comment

What a difference a year makes; at last year’s PPA magazine conference it was all about Apple and the thrilling potential of its new dynamic piece of tech, the iPad. Read more »

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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 »

BBC Magazines: even when they’re winning, they lose

By February 18 2011, 4:08 pm Leave a comment


I make no apologies for our extensive magazine coverage this week. The
industry’s biannual circulation audit should be a time for advertisers, agencies and analysts alike to unashamedly ‘talk magazines’.

Pity then, that as the business faces well-documented structural change, many publishers stood back from the media spotlight altogether, wary of generating any negative attention.

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Hearst sets eyes firmly east with Lagardère deal

By February 17 2011, 4:07 pm Leave a comment

The decision by the owner of Cosmopolitan to buy the rights for Elle reflects the shifting sands of the magazine marketplace… Read more »

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