Ever wondered where Kim and her team find all of their magazine industry news for our daily Digital Publishing Trends posts?
Well, I have, so I asked them for their top
Publisher acquisition news is often pretty predictable and ho-hum, but sometimes a deal comes along that not only captures the imagination, but also truly crystallizes the state of the industry.
Digital audience development is the endgame for magazine publishing companies making the transition from traditional channels to a multiplatform strategy that will them in a position to compete in the
When you read about international media news like the kind eMarketer covers below, small and midsize digital magazines have the ability to act on it overnight to start capitalizing on
Latest publishers' news includes personnel moves, mergers & acquisitions, and multiplatform advances
For publishers, news from across the industry is nonstop these days, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
How are entities like Vox Media, Quartz, the IAB, and the ANA combating ad blocking programs?
As ad blocking programs proliferate and become more popular with consumers – especially younger consumers
These digital only magazines have disappeared from existence, but we’ll take this opportunity to learn from their mistakes
There's a basketball game between print and digital, and we're rooting for digital.
Are you making the best use of publishing technologies? Do you ever wonder how other digital magazines are doing it? Digiday recently took a look at how six big publishers
If it seems like everybody has a digital magazine, that's because they do. If you're a publisher and reading this, then I'm guessing you're not quite "everyone" yet, but you're
Now that we’re 5+ years into the advent of the iPad and responsive website design has penetrated to a point where it's now a must-have for Google-friendly sites, it’s become
There is no panacea for digital magazines attempting to break through, no one digital publishing solution to rule all others and send your revenues skyrocketing (unless you count Mequoda as
Deft use of digital publishing platforms is a must for magazines looking to solidify their place in the industry. Thanks to astute observers like Talking New Media, we can monitor
Another week, another new social platform! Plus more video models and one of our favorite topics: niche publishing.
Let's take a look at three articles tackling these trends from the always
So is the underreporting of digital magazines sales the fault of publishers themselves, or should AAM's audit be modified to accommodate universal pricing and packaging?
We think it's time to accommodate.
Recent articles spelling doom for replica editions could be misleading to digital magazine publishers, writes D.B. Hebbard in a recent Talking New Media post. For his part, Hebbard points out
D.B. Hebbard recently conducted a roundtable discussion on digital magazine covers for the relaunch issue of App Publisher and reported the highlights in Talking New Media.
“For $10,000 per issue I can create a magazine that the big boys can't produce for $250,000. Apple and Amazon have given me a distribution platform where I can compete
Mequoda Members have fully grasped for a while now that digital magazine archives can do wonders for your multiplatform publishing and audience development efforts. Others, like Rolling Stone, are just
Digital magazines comprise the whole ecosystem of paperless magazines.
If a story can be read digitally, it's a digital magazine. It doesn't matter if it's read on the web, or a
Knowing your audience is vital to all writers, editors, and publishers. Staying ahead of market research is the first step in finding out who your readers are and what they
The Pulitzer Prize is considered one of the top awards for journalists. It’s been this way for years. Now, writers for magazines could receive the prestigious award as magazines are
Digital publishing success is based on a few things, with audience being a major factor. You have to find your audience, make sure they know you exist, and present them
Starting next week, Condé Nast's Golf World will go digital-only and be absorbed into the Golf Digest website, Ad Age reports. The magazine was acquired from The New York Times
Digital apps are driving readership, traffic and profits: In the three years since the introduction of the iPad, it’s become clear that the tablet has rescued the magazine industry from
University of Virginia professor and publishing consultant Jane Friedman recently took exception with a statement from Samir "Mr. Magazine" Husni in which he said digital magazines with no print progenitor
Digital magazine publishing changes from week to week, but last week, at our quarterly Digital Publishing & Marketing Intensive in Boston, we discussed digital magazine publishing opportunities in depth.
The Newspaper Association of America reports that circulation revenues are up 3.7% to $10.87 billion, which might surprise you.
But these aren't your father's circulation revenues we're talking about; rather, the
Have you heard of WhoSay? It's a social network that's basically exclusive to celebrities. According to Folio, "Time Inc.’s People and WhoSay, a digital-only social magazine powered by the celebrities
What is a “lifetime” product? At Scientific American, it’s their brand-new all-access bundle of print magazine, digital and a massive 150,000-article archive, dating back to the magazine’s first issue in
Will Newsweek's digital magazine subscription pricing work? Ken Doctor from Nieman Labs has all the details about Newsweek's relaunch. We found the part about their digital magazine subscription pricing to
FOLIO is reporting that La Presse+ has had a huge success with their digital edition. Jennifer Silber writes, "The free digital edition of Montreal-based daily newspaper La Presse.
January 10, 2014 - BOSTON — Following the recent release of his new Multiplatform Publishing Strategy handbook, Don Nicholas, a leading magazine industry consultant and CEO of Mequoda Group, has
It’s been interesting to see the successes associated with subscription websites. From digital newspapers to digital magazines, more and more publishers are considering paywall strategies. This even includes tabloids.
Robert Cookson
Digiday is reporting that The Information, a new tech news site from Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin is forgoing on site advertisements to focus its revenue strategy solely on
The New York Times continues to lead the transformation of the subscription publishing industry. In the next few months, they're rolling out a brigade of new multiplatform publishing products that
Another major newspaper is joining the ranks of paid online content by enacting a subscription paywall. Denver Post will be putting up its paywall on December 2.
The Denver Post is
eMarketer has a new report on X + 1's and Research Now's new poll that takes a peek at how misaligned our marketing campaigns can be compared to consumer expectations.
The Guardian is reporting that The Financial Times is consolidating to a single global print edition in the first half of 2014. Roy Greenslade writes, "The Financial Times is to
Popular Science, founded in 1872 and now owned by mega-publisher Bonnier Corp., is the fifth-oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. But as old as it is, its focus
Back on April 1 Don wrote a post entitled Saving TIME Magazine: or, the Future of All of Us. Don’s vision of the future, even for faltering weekly news magazines,
Newsweek was sold over the weekend to IBT Media, reports Capital New York. "IAC/InterActive reached a deal to sell Newsweek, which has been publishing since January as a digital-only version
Publishers are taking a great deal of time and research to get multiplatform publishing right. FOLIO Magazine took the pulse of a couple publishers to see what steps publishers like
For a publication with roots deep in the Victorian era, founded by a conservative Scottish hatmaker, The Economist is a surprising innovator in the modern publishing era.
Apparently, despite its stodgy
All this hype about native ads gave us a chuckle in yesterday's weekly Mequoda editorial meeting. In case everybody's forgotten, native ads aren't new, a fad, or even advertising's hottest
iPad-only magazine blows up the envelope gorgeously
It’s not often that someone defies conventional wisdom so profoundly and still makes a success of it.
But that’s what TRVL magazine has achieved.
TRVL is
