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An Insider’s Look at the Digital Media Wasteland
04 February 2019|content, Digital
John DeVore has seen a thing or two in the 20 years he’s been working online. “I am a writer and an editor who launched his first site in 1999,” DeVore writes in Medium. “Since then, I have either launched...
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Some Good Vintage Fun for Friday’s Free Fonts
01 February 2019|design
Progress is fabulous; innovation is critical. But every once in a while (usually on Fridays, it seems) we like to throw it back to a simpler time. This week we bring you two fonts that may have you turning off...
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Condé Nast to Put All Their Titles Behind Paywalls by End of This Year
30 January 2019|content, Digital, Magazine, publishing
Three years ago, it was evident that Condé Nast was somehow defying the so-called digital erosion. At the time, Nicholas Coleridge said his company’s sales had held up well, and the feared “demise” of the print magazine hadn’t materialized.  “Ninety percent...
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Is the USPS About to Penalize Efficient Mailers?
29 January 2019|USPS
“Move more of your mailings to High Density Flats; you’ll save money and so will we,” said the Post Office. “Done,” said many of us in the magazine and catalog industry, taking advantage of better rates for our customers, and...
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Native Ads Nosedive while Custom Content Soars
28 January 2019|Advertising
If you’ve been a long-time reader of our blog, you already know we are not huge fans of native advertising. And when the fake news uproar started, it became obvious that there really wasn’t much difference between the two.  “I...
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Grit, Grunge, Love and Fonts
25 January 2019|design
Okay, we may be pushing the season here, but it’s close enough to Valentine’s Day to unleash two heart-felt fonts for Free Font Friday. The first is Mindfully, a signature font created by Sinikka Li. This gorgeous font has an...
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Redesigned GOLF Magazine Flies Straight up the Fairway
25 January 2019|design, Magazine, Print
It’s fresh. It’s bold. It’s loaded with technical info and rock star-style imagery. It’s the newly redone GOLF magazine, and its launch is causing a buzz in the world of sports magazines.  “With this issue we set a new standard...
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To There and Back Again – the New Life of Thomas Cook’s Excursionist
23 January 2019|Magazine, Print
The name Thomas Cook is iconic in the European travel industry. The brand’s 3,000 retail travel shops draw some 40 million consumers into their stores each year, most of them looking for information about their next big travel adventure. In...
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Folio:’s 3 Big Predictions for Magazine Media in 2019
22 January 2019|Magazine
There are three essential mantras to keep in mind as we sally forth into 2019, according to Casey Welton in Folio:. Welton doesn’t see any industry-wide destabilization looming this year, although he’s quick to note “that doesn’t mean there won’t...
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The Million Dollar Question for Marketers
21 January 2019|Magazine, Print
If advertising in magazines is still proven to be more effective than other media, provides a brand safe environment with trusted, credible, fact-checked content and reaches larger audiences than even television, why aren’t marketers reflecting that in their media mixes?...
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