Your Audience is Into Print Ads. Are You?
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When deciding where to spend your ad dollars, do you stop to consider your audience’s point of view? If you did, you might join the growing chorus saying pffft to digital ads. According to Kantar Millward Brown’s latest Ad Reaction...
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How Digital Music Hints at the Future of Print
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It’s been 20 years since digital changed everything, so we can finally start seeing past the original disruption and onto what’s next. And according to Jessica Ruscello of Blurb Inc., print occupies a singular place in the new media context....
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The Happy Buyer and What She Means to Advertisers
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Late last year we reported on a Magazines Canada report that showed us that buying magazines makes shoppers happier. Okay, happy customers are a good thing for the retail store … but does that have any bearing on the advertisers...
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This Week, a Tale of Two Uppercase Fonts
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This week, it’s a tale of two fonts that stand tall and command attention. First up is Kel by Keine Martins, a Brazilian designer and art director. It’s a clean, uppercase sans serif with unusual edge styling that takes a...
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Ditching Instant Articles? You’re Not Alone
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Question: What do Cosmopolitan, CBS News, The Onion, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Weather Channel all have in common? Answer: They were all initial partners in Facebook’s Instant Articles when it launched in 2015,...
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In the Real Estate Industry, Print Gets a Great Review
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It’s estimated that 90-95% of property searches now start online, thanks in large part to major players like Zillow and Trulia in the U.S., and Rightmove and Zoopla in the U.K. Not only do most buyers start online, but most...
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Facebook Needs to Just Stop It
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Last week, Mark Zuckerberg recalled traveling across the nation listening to the common folk last year (yeah, I don’t remember that either; I must have missed his stop near us in Ohio). Along the way, he noticed “one theme people...
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The How-To Guide to Make Money in Magazine Media in 2018
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“I make money the old-fashioned way: I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.” That famous quote from Malcolm Forbes kicks of FIPP’s 2017-2018 Innovation in Magazine Media World Report. While it’s meant to be cute,...
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Print … Designed for the 21st Digital Traveler 
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Travel industry insiders say printed collateral is still incredibly important … but in a new way. A page from Abercrombie & Kent’s 2018 Antarctica brochure, which is more of an editorial product than its 20th century predecessors. Within the last...
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Wired Editor in Chief on Why Print “Makes Stuff Better”
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It’s fairly easy to understand why a print publisher like Hoffman Media is still incredibly bullish on print. The publisher knows its audience and their demand for quality publications. And for the Alabama-based publisher of several Southern-themed magazines, that means...
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