What Led This Former Intern to Launch a Print Mag
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For many of us, the current social questions and economic issues play themselves out incessantly in digital media. And it’s pretty easy to see where someone falls, based on their comments or the kind of reporting they are doing. One...
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The Throw Back Magazine for Doomsday Preppers
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Well, this is cheery. “If you were to browse a British newsstand in the early 1980s, you might have discovered a rather unusual magazine,” writes Chris Baraniuk the BBC.. “Called Protect & Survive Monthly or ‘PSM’, it aimed to teach...
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Salty at Heart Launches in Print; Mermaids Everywhere Rejoice
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Salty at Heart’s founder Kirstin Thompson felt something was lacking in the women’s magazine niche. So she set about filling it – with a magazine dedicated to and inspired by women, adventure and the sea. “When Kirstin saw a void...
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Watch Site Hodinkee to Publish a Print Magazine
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It’s been a cult hit since it launched as a blog in 2008. Now Hodinkee has announced it will publish a glossy print magazine, according to Victoria Berezhna writing in Business of Fashion. “Our twin goals for the Hodinkee Magazine...
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Social Ads Not Really Driving Conversions
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For the most part, those social ads that brands are paying for on social media aren’t moving the needle on sales revenue. A recent survey of U.S. internet users found that Snapchat and Twitter, in particular, had single digit response...
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Print Dead? Piffle.
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Shaun Donnelly, the London-based publisher behind the design lifestyle publication Manimalist, is one of us. “Try to imagine picking up a fresh print magazine; feeling the weight, quickly flicking your fingers through the pages and prising them open so you...
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Is That Veranda Getting Bigger?
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The magazine that celebrates living well is dropping its biggest issue in 10 years. Thirty years and still growing; that’s the way Veranda is doing it these days, with an anniversary issue set to mail soon that’s already getting rave...
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Taylor Swift Drops It…In Print
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She’s known for her theatrical live shows and her out-of-the-box marketing. Love her music or not, you have to admit that Taylor Swift knows how to package her wares. And now, she’s poised to drop something pretty incredible along with...
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Rethinking the Sports Magazine – 10 Indie Titles to Check Out
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If you’re not familiar with the folks at Stack, you might want to check them out. They do a great job of discovering indie magazine titles and making them available to a wider audience. Recently, Stack pulled together their list...
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Drake and the Million Dollar Pop
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“We’re in a weird time. Life is almost this ongoing forum. People can get so lost in these words displayed on the screen.” Those words are spoken by Canadian rapper Drake as part of the “Drake – Obey Your Thirst”...
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