The Viral Power of the Magazine Cover
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Something interesting is happening to magazine covers. Rather than facing extinction like so many predicted with the dawn of digital media, covers are finding new audiences and viral love. Catherin Taibi in the Huffington Post notes that digital – in...
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Publishers Consciously Uncoupling Content from Brands
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Last week we talked about the new digital disruption as Apple and Facebook prep for owning the news stream. As more third party aggregators host the news “in partnership” with traditional news media, publishers are retooling their teams to accommodate....
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MPA Head Sees Print as “Robust” and “Relevant”
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This will come as no big surprise for people who truly understand marketing, but “delivering content created specifically for a particular platform, through the lens of a magazine's ‘brand umbrella,’ has served to attract new audiences (often younger) to individual...
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Multi-channel Ads Work in Favor of Print
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Talking about current trends and future predictions is “all well and good,” but according to industry analyst Guy Consterdine, it’s not enough to talk theoreticals and stats. Rather we need to ask “What are the consumers telling us? What do...
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FTC Warns Publishers: You’re Liable
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In an attempt to curb potentially deceitful publishing, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a stern warning to publishers on native advertising and sponsored content. At risk of FTC sanctions is the growing number of publishers that are acting more...
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The Magical and the Not-so in Adobe CC 2015 Release
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Getty Images and other stock photo suppliers are about to get a run for their money as Adobe Creative Cloud releases Adobe Stock Marketplace in its latest update. “Our vision for Creative Cloud has always included the creation of a...
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Rolling Stone’s Problems are Journalism’s Problems
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John Kroll (rightly) calls the story “appalling,” yet he feels that much of the reaction to the Columbia Journalism School’s report on the Rolling Stone rape story “missed the point.” He claims that “the real story isn’t what happened with...
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Lost in Translation: Why Print Writing Doesn’t Work Online
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As brands embrace journalism, one of the ideals they work toward is often “content re-use.” In theory it’s a great idea; use content that lives in one channel or format and repurpose it to another. For example, if you have...
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How FB and Apple are About to Own the News
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“We’re not trying to go, like, suck in and devour everything.” Thus spoke Facebook’s Chris Cox when interviewed by The New York Times about Instant Articles, the social media company’s plan to basically own the news feed from major publishers...
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HGTV Magazine Keeps Bumping Up the Base Rate
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Six base rate bumps since they launched in 2012? Not too shabby for HGTV magazine, the home and lifestyle TV-to-print spinoff. “HGTV Magazine announced that it will increase its rate base in 2016 from 1.2 million to 1.25 million, effective...
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