Facebook’s Brand Safety Measures Don’t Measure Up
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Brands that advertise online are becoming increasingly wary of being associated with extremist content. Having your ad appear in the wrong context can be a killer blow to any brand’s reputation. Facebook is responding by giving advertisers more visibility into...
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The Boss Who Lost It and Banned Smartphones
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“Don’t show up at a meeting with me with your phone. If someone shows up with their phone, it’ll be their last meeting.” I think anyone who’s run a meeting and looked up to see almost all the participants’ heads...
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B2B Media and the Direct Line to Senior Execs
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B2B marketers, take note: A new study out of Canada proves that business media magazines are a direct channel to reaching decision makers.  “The study shows that business media magazines are read by senior people in the industries which they...
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Publishers Clap Back at TNG’s Newsstand Bailout Request
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When magazine wholesaler TNG asked major publishers to pony up to rescue their newsstand distribution, the overriding response was “get lost.” To some, it might seem counterintuitive – magazine publishers have relied on the newsstand for decades, and if TNG...
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Keep On Truckin’ … Freight Continues to Climb
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Freight impacts all of us. In this industry, we've seen a slight uptick over the course of 2018 in the cost of trucking magazines, catalogs, and books.  At the heart of the problem is a perfect storm of reasons –...
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The One Thing Costco Won’t Do To Save Costs
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When costs – especially postage expenses – began to rise for Costco and its Costco Connection magazine, the team naturally searched for ways to save expenses. But there was one action that was off the table, according to Michael Winkleman...
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These Two Free Fonts are Destined for Bigger Things
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Sometimes you need to go big.  In the design world, it’s not simply a matter of upping the font size. To really have the impact and design clout you want in your large-scale projects, choose fonts that were designed specifically...
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Husni Riffs on the Global Rise of New Magazines
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Earlier this week we shared an interview with magCulture’s Jeremy Leslie; he was talking to Stack’s Steve Watson about the state of the magazine industry today, and had this to say: “Always in the back of my mind I think...
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The Lawsuits Mount Up for Facebook
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The legal troubles for Facebook continues.  In light of dodgy viewership metrics and unsupported ad reach claims, the marketing industry is (finally) standing up to the tech giant. Previously this year we saw several marketers sue Facebook over their “misrepresentation”...
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Two Print Magazines, Two Happy Audiences
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New Internationalist magazine has a lovely kind of problem. “A survey of New Internationalist readers revealed that many do not have time to get through an entire issue in one month, leaving the magazines piling up in one corner in...
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