Glamour's goodbye to print, DDB's big win and Facebook's ad issues: Wednesday Wake-Up Call

Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app.What people are talking about todayGlamour, long a mainstay in Cond Nast's magazine business, will end regular print publication to focus on digital. And while there will be special issues occasionally, this means another title is basically turning the page on print. The New York Times writes that Glamour still has about 2.2 million paid subscribers, but the move is "part of a general belt-tightening at Cond Nast, a company that was known for its lavish offices and generous pay packages back when its publications were so stuffed with ads that readers had trouble finding the articles." Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

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