Time Inc., the owner of People, Time and Sports Illustrated, said Thursday that it had sold Grupo Editorial Expansin, Mexico's second-largest magazine publisher, to the Latin-American private equity firm Southern Cross Group.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.When Time Inc. bought Grupo in 2005 for an estimated $60 million, then-Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore called "international expansion a key element of our growth strategy." She added, "This represents an exceptional opportunity to establish Time Inc. as a major presence in the dynamic Mexican magazine market." Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2014-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Responses point to moderate interaction, but reader monetization and advertising still have a lot of catching up to do. The post Survey: Digital Magazines Still Not a Break-Out Platform appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dunkin' Donuts wants to create cool musical buzz with millennials this summer to push its iced coffee products. So it's playing with enough social-media platforms to outfit a marketing septet: Spotify, Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Vine, Facebook and Periscope. The initiative, called... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over the past two years Time Inc., the magazine company, has attempted to position itself as Time Inc., the digital content brand. Core to the push has been video, which Time Inc. has produced in multiple forms. On the Web, its video team, now ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A handful of veterans of Glenn Beck’s The Blaze website are setting up shop on Medium today, with the launch of a new publication called Autonomous. The publication, led by former Blaze V.P. of digital content Steve Krakauer, will fo ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite many readers’ disparaging criticism, Harper Lee’s ‘lost’ novel has become HarperCollins’ fastest selling book with 1.1m in first-week sales and preordersCritics dismissed it as a rough draft for To Kill a Mockingbird and readers despaired over an ageing, racist Atticus Finch. But Harper... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Resources to be redirected to faster-moving digital and daily products. The post National Journal Magazine to Cease Publication By Year’s End appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Media brands were quick to adopt video apps Periscope and Meerkat to broadcast live streams, and now Facebook marketers want in on that action. Social platform BumeBox started hosting live Facebook chats for brands like VH1 and Discovery Channel back in October, as an alternative to the Twitter... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last fall, things looked as bleak as they ever have when it became publicly known that the Tampa Bay Times, like so many newspapers around the country, was struggling financially. “If you are uncertain about your standing with the Ti ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Download and read the latest Publishing Perspectives magazine on leadership in global publishing and book business trends in countries around the world. The post Download: 2015 Global Publishing Magazine and FBF Preview Guide appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The New York Times on Monday defended its decision to exclude Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's book "A Time for Truth" from its bestseller list after discovering "strategic bulk purchases," though it did not offer any further details behind the decision."The Times's best-seller lists... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Launches adventure travel service with trips curated by editors. The post Down East Magazine Will Book Your Next Maine Adventure appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Earlier this year, executives at social news site ViralNova had to make a decision. The two-year-old company that has never raised outside funding could stay independent and try to keep up with larger digital media companies like Vice and BuzzFeed on its own as was the plan since Sean Beckner... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Core sectors stay flat, while ancillary categories generate interest. The post Magazine M&A Moves In Two Directions appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paula Hawkins’s novel has now been top of the UK hardback book chart for 20 weeks, outlasting even Dan Brown’s Lost Symbol• How Paula Hawkins wrote ‘the new Gone Girl’A record set six years ago by Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol was broken this week by Paula Hawkins’s dark thriller The Girl on the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How not to fall behind in an era when everything you think you know might be wrong. The post The Revolution in Magazine Processes appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Mexico has finally launched its full retail operations and a print bookstore; it had previously offered Kindle ebooks since 2013. The post Amazon Mexico Now Sells Print Books Online appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook can drive a lot of traffic to publishers, but the knock is that a lot of it is fly-by traffic. The Times is using a startup, KeyWee, to find subscribers among the casual readers, though. KeyWee comes up with keywords for articles and then targets the articles to Facebook users who are... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At this week's annual meeting of the International Christian Retail Show in Orlando, Fla., attendees expressed optimism about a show that has become, of late, more innovative. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc's Chief Content Officer takes exception to the idea that the flagship magazine is struggling. The post Time Keeps Ticking: Norm Pearlstine Responds appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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60 titles launch, 23 close through the first half of 2015. The post Magazine Industry Growth Slows appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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