The New Normal for Paper
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Paper pricing in the printing industry has always been a bit of a roller coaster ride, with hefty increases due to supply shortages in 2018. But according to D. Eadward Tree in Publishing Executive, don’t hold your breath waiting for...
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The Modern Magazine — A Rare Brand Booster
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Did vinyl disappear after the CD? No, it became rare, and thus more valuable and is now a prestige item among music aficionados. That same concept of rarity and exclusivity is now playing out in print marketing, according to this...
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The Realty of Publishing in 2019 — 5 Truths for Publishers
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It’s increasingly (and sometimes painfully) obvious that the only way to succeed in publishing today is to keep a firm focus on your readers. We’ve been preaching about this audience-first approach for several years now, and seeing the results when...
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3 Charts Aboot Canadian Magazines and the Power of Print
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Magazine brands are ubiquitous across Canada, according to the latest quarterly audience reports from Vividata Canada. Perhaps the most interesting detail is that print is by far the preferred reading medium for magazines; 63% of magazine readers do so exclusively...
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Saving the World, One Magazine at the Time
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The trust bump – we’ve talked about it before. And in our age of rising consumer mistrust of social media, trust is more important than ever. And that, according to MPA’s Linda Thomas Brooks, gives magazine media a critical edge....
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Behind the “Innovation” Trap in Magazine Media
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“Why have publishers stopped throwing so much spaghetti on the wall?” That’s the pressing question Casey Welton poses in Folio:, as he attempts to understand and explain why the rush toward innovation was doomed to fail in the magazine industry....
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Digital Longs to Be Tangible – for Good Reason
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Netflix launched a magazine. Bumble launched a magazine. Airbnb launched a magazine. Facebook launched a ma … you get the idea. Digital brands are falling over their online roots to publish in print.According to Catherine Saraniti, SVP of Media at...
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(Climate) Change in the Magazine Industry
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Photo: Rishabh Malik/courtesy Atmos “We want everyone to be collaborating on this and speaking about it.” The “it” is climate change, and the speaker is Jake Sargent, fashion brand head turned publisher of Atmos magazine. As Adele Peters explains in...
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The Ad-Free Magazine Renaissance Continues
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Magazines and ads … the two go together like peas in a pod, and the ad-funded model has been a staple of the magazine industry for decades. Yet with the drop in print ad budgets over the past 10 years,...
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Netflix Launches a Print Mag to Go After Hollywood Gold
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They started in physical media – as a DVD-by-mail company – then evolved to become a massive online streaming service and, most recently, media content producer. Now, Netflix is looking to physical media again as they attempt to earn kudos...
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