Publishing in 2019 — Fueling the Plane in Mid-air
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Refueling in mid-air – that is the analogy Julia Raphaely, CEO of Associated Media Publishing in South Africa, gives to the evolution of publishing since the digital disruption. “The magazine industry has been totally disrupted by technology,” Raphaely says in...
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Publishers are Winning Hearts … and Stomachs … with Dining Experiences
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You’ll never look at a mall food court the same way after reading this. According to Kayleigh Barber in Folio:, several media brands are launching dining experiences as a way to provide a new, deeper touch point for their audiences....
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BoSacks on Why Disruption is Our New Normal – and How We Can Thrive There
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Is the publishing industry finally settling down, after years of chaos and disruption? As nice as it might be to believe that, Bo Sacks says it’s not true. “As I sit here in the industry analyst's seat, I see the...
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D. Eadward Tree Riffs on 6 Trends that Sum up Publishing in 2018
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It was quite a year to be in publishing. Or as D. Eadward Tree writes in Publishing Executive, “What a crazy, up-and-down year this has been in publishing!”  The always interesting (and often prescient) Tree points out three pairs of...
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Is Meredith Aiming to Break the Duopoly? 
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Last fall, Meredith doubled down on print by buying Time Inc. from Time Warner. The move firmly established Meredith as the largest magazine publisher in the U.S. It did something else too. It opened the door to break through the...
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Buzzfeed Lays off 100 and Ad-funded Online Journalism Takes its Lumps
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There’s a group of 20 or so journalists in the UK suddenly available for hire. No, they weren’t laid off from a struggling print newspaper. Rather, they’ve been cut from the editorial staff at Buzzfeed, part of a purge of...
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28 Trump Covers and Other Surprising Magazine Facts for 2017
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Fun facts to know: Four of the top 15 newsstand magazine publishers saw sales rise in 2016 over 2015; The average cover price of a newsstand magazine rose 5% last year over the year before; 37% of digital publishers still...
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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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How Publishers are Ruining their Online Sales (and How to Stop It)
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Robert Grainger has a bone to pick with publishers. In this era of fake news and renewed interest in long-form content, he believes that consumers are more than ready to pay for good journalism. The problem, according to Granger (a...
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Angst or Anticipation … What’s Your Publishing World View?
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The general consensus in the magazine publishing business is that there is no general consensus. Boom or bust? Thrive or dive? In the magazine business today, it all depends on how you view things. And the variety of opinions is...
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