Luxury Regionals Having a Moment, Too
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Luxury publishing is having a moment. Earlier this week I noted that many luxury brands are skipping digital and sticking to print ads. As if to prove that point, Michael Dickey of Modern Luxury recently gave an interview with Folio’s...
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Record Store Day Could Be a Real Goldmine
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Music magazines, indie record stores, and a cover shot of a young Mick Jagger – have we warped back to the ‘70s? No, this is all happening right now, thanks to a creative partnership between print and vinyl. “Goldmine, the...
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Why Food Titles are Everywhere Now
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Lucky Peach—the much loved and highly irreverent food magazine – is shutting down. And there goes the niche? Well, hardly. Rather, the food niche seems to be having a bit of a boom, judging by the number of titles that...
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What Marketers Now Realize about Millennials and Print
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You know it’s a thing when the marketing sites are writing about it.  That “thing” is the mounds of data being collected that show millennials show a strong preference for print media. “Counterintuitive as it may sound, the more our...
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Now Serving: Chef-published Titles in Print
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Love foodie titles? You just might find your next favorite magazine here.  Food always makes for good magazines. And magazines created by the same people who create the food? Amazing. It’s admittedly a tough niche, notes Greg Morabito writing in...
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Daring to Find a Place for Print
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In an age of disposable, erasable and forgettable content, selling and maintaining print products may have a truly viable place in your revenue stream.“News is disposable and has a lifespan, but niche content focused on other interests and hobbies is...
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1,000 Issues and Still Going Strong
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It’s a milestone any title would be proud of: 1,000 issues in print. For Steve George of Model Railroader, it’s proof positive that a passionate and connected audience will stick with you. “In many ways, specialized interest has been around...
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3 Hots Topics in the Magazine Media Landscape
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Digital ad revenue; the evolving B2B business model; and the aim to resolve the mission versus margin gap in association publishing: These, according to Folio’s Tony Silber, are the three key issues defining magazine media today. 1. Digital Ad Doldrums...
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New Launches are Up By How Much Now?
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One of the challenges in the magazine industry is parsing the numbers. Depending on the source, (MPA, Min, PPA, etc.) the stories can vary pretty dramatically. So when we saw this figure cross our desk, we had to take a...
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NYT Introduces us to Four New Indie Titles
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“If print is dead, nobody told Francesca Burns and Christopher Simmonds, whose new biannual magazine, PRINT, launched late last year,” writes Kin Woo in The New York Times Style Magazine.“For us, PRINT was always about a love of magazines, a...
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