These audience development models create marketing-qualified leads through freemiums that build larger, more monetizable email lists
“Audience development” is one of those terms that many people instinctively understand, but usually underestimate.
The very successful publishers that we always turn to when evaluating our best practices have used some or all of the following strategies to convert website visitors into email subscribers.
Listing this year's best new magazine launches; plus, the future of Men's Health and how The Atlantic handles changing social media patterns
Healthy print brands make for healthy multiplatform publishers –
Multiplatform consumers give us a glimpse into digital and print magazines as consumption of digital grows year over year
In our annual American Magazine Reader Study & Handbook survey, we set out to understand
Industry naysayers are still skeptical about the power of digital magazines. And we’re still ignoring them. At Mequoda, we urge our clients to begin the process of launching a digital
Personalization, sales structure, and data-driven publishing highlight latest trends in magazine publishing strategy
Multiplatform content, audience development, and internet revenue models. Attracting and converting. That's the crux of magazine publishing strategy
The companies behind the latest multiplatform media headlines include Time Inc., NatGeo, and Facebook
The beautiful thing about multiplatform media is that the possibilities for a digital publishing strategy are endless.
What to look for in the best publication management system, from Haven Nexus, to WP Member, MemberGate, aMember, and SubHub
If you are a magazine publisher, it behooves you to remember what makes the
How to use direct mail campaigns as an audience development tool that builds email lists and primes email subscribers to become paying magazine subscribers
Direct mail is a traditional marketing channel
The media companies making the latest publishing business news include Conde Nast, Time Inc., and IAB
The watch word in recent weeks has been "reorg" when it comes to the publishing
Readability and scrolling text should come first in tablet and native edition digital magazine design
Since we started our annual Digital Magazine Survey to help publishers home in on digital magazine design, the
Isn’t it fascinating to consider how the old journalism phrase “above the fold” has evolved? Once it literally meant “above the fold” of a traditional broadsheet newspaper. Editors, writers and
The classified content business model is the modern day equivalent of what used to appear in the back of many newspapers and B2B magazines
Listings for products, services, and jobs are
No publisher can hope to have a successful subscription based website without getting the marketing right. So if you have, or plan to launch, one of our three subscription website
You don't have to pick a primary or favorite digital magazine publishing platform – as we see from leading media companies, multiplatform strategy leaves it wide open, and the more
Audience development is one of those terms that many people instinctively understand, but usually underestimate
Although media professionals have worked in audience development for years, most have not bothered to define all the things
For digital magazines, readership data holds a world of possibility within all of those numbers, clicks, and submissions of info. The problem for publishers is figuring out how exactly to
Exclusivity is the name of the game when it comes to multiplatform magazine sponsorships
If you have children, or even when you were a child you remember, that no child ever
Mequoda is big into identifying and quantifying things so we can study them, understand them and use them to enhance our clients’ publishing businesses. And with digital publishing starting to
Online publishing strategies have grown exponentially since digital magazines have transformed the industry. It is, after all multiplatform strategy, and media companies are wise to maximize as many channels as
Spend some time in your archives to discover magazine promotions and copy that can be recycled
There's something about antiques that can make you nostalgic, even if you weren't alive during
How to evolve into a rockstar multiplatform publisher by outsourcing these three jobs
Two keys to organizational success as a multiplatform publisher are streamlining the on-staff team members to focus on
Part of Countryside Magazine Network's success can be attributed to the rise of conscious and sustainable living in recent years, but an even larger part is due to their ability
The directory content business model is a three-fer
The directory content business has some pretty unique benefits. If executed correctly, this model can be a win-win-win for any ambitious publisher. Not
Branding comes into play when choosing colors for your website. Most brands stick with their main colors. However, some businesses go through an entire rebranding when they launch or
Your digital magazine website is like a basketball team, always on defense and offense simultaneously.
For a basketball team, protecting the goal keys the transition to scoring success. A rebound, a
Retail can be used to boost your audience development efforts, because newsstands come with their own marketplaces
There are seven major Audience Development models we have identified: search, social, syndication, email,
Our friends at PubExec.com provide an online digital publishing forecast for next year; plus, what some magazines aren't getting about Facebook
If there's one thing we know about online digital publishing,
What we learned about the average digital magazine reader in this year's study about magazine consumption
This year, like we have for the last several years, we ran a study to
These organizational teams are key components for building a highly effective and efficient multiplatform publishing business
Building a multiplatform publishing business is never easy, but it is practically impossible without the
This content business model drives interest in live events while also driving revenue from attendees and sponsors
Who would have imagined in the internet age that people would still yearn for
ACEM, a foundational part of the Mequoda Method, stands for "Attracting, Capturing, Engaging, and Monetizing" digital magazine readers. Of course, the key to doing those last three is retaining audience
Every successful niche publisher we know uses email as the central resource of their audience development toolbox
As you know, our clients are some of the most incredible before/after examples of
Use this road map following Mequoda's CAROTME framework to establish an economic strategy for your multiplatform magazine
Single-platform legacy media companies are widely out of favor with buyers and investors. That’s
Sometimes media revenue streams flow, and sometimes they dry up
How are you generating media revenue? I hope your response isn't limited to one answer. Please, take all the time you
We can't think of a better way to launch an upcoming series of interviews with Mequoda Members who are making waves in digital publishing than to post this recent email
Because we quantify everything, Mequoda has identified nine (coincidentally) deadly subscription website mistakes that are commonly made when publishers build their online presence.
When syndication is used for audience development, magazine publishers should be wary of duplicate content
Publishers have a long history of building audiences around specific topics, or niches. But the internet
Since 2014, the MPA has been tracking magazine consumption with its Magazine Media 360° report, and we've been tracking those tracks. (After all, we issue our own annual study on
Our mission in life is to get more people to read magazines online, so this round of recent news is well received
Your goal and our goal? Make it irresistible for
Your systems team must always have one foot in the present and one in the future, understanding how all existing technologies span and intercept to create a content marketing system
Publishers
We're proud to number a nice mix of successful B2B and B2C magazines among our Mequoda Members. This reflects the potency of the niche strategy + multiplatform publishing combination –
When you have a course content business model, you organize a series of courses for paid subscribers that are updated regularly – but not frequently
Every successful publisher we know launched
Convince magazine advertisers to "invest" in your ads and native content, then show them the numbers.
If you're a new magazine, or even just new to digital magazines, you already know
The book content business model can give you a variety of items to sell that can be sold digitally for a large profit
When developing strategic plans for CAROTME (content, audience,
September 1, 2016 – BOSTON — The 2016 Mequoda American Magazine Reader Study & Handbook, conducted in Q2 2016, one year after their 2015 study, polled 3,241 US adults with
We make it our business to help you publish successful magazines. How do we do it? Well, it's not a big secret, and we certainly don't keep it from our
It's easy to drive the same road with your multiplatform magazine, but it's fruitful to spend time on strategy and analytics to keep yourself accountable for growth
Many CEOs readily admit
Your multiplatform magazine team isn't complete without a functional operations unit
Teams that take time to create efficient group work processes can become extremely effective at furthering the actual work of
