Don’t Panic! (17/01/10)
Latest news from our American cousins. And guess what? It isnae good. The Publishers Information Bureau has released its 2009 year-end magazine advertising report. It revealed that ad pages for 2009...
View ArticleOnly six months to go…
The headline the Advertising Association want you to notice is: AA/Warc predict the ad recession to end by Autumn 2010 But as usual, the devil is in the detail; and what a great, big, evil-smelling...
View ArticleDown, down and further down
It’s been an interesting few days for B2B results, so let’s summarise the good news: UBM’s print division: revenues down 23.1% to £165.8m and operating profit down 62.8% to £8.9m Informa: operating...
View ArticleDon’t Panic! (16/03/10)
Still gloom and doom for US B2B publishers according to the latest American Business Media figures as reported in Folio: Last year advertising pages for trade magazines fell 28.6% compared to 2008,...
View ArticleMMC All Out?
Media Week make flesh the rumours that have been circulating over the last week that the magazine distributor MMC is about to go into administration. “Media Week understands about 50% of MMC’s clients...
View ArticleDon’t panic! (12/07/10)
The latest Bellwether survey reveals that marketing budgets were revised down in Q2 amid uncertainty regarding the economic outlook, with around 20% of companies reporting a downward revision against...
View ArticleLeaner, stronger, deader
Figures from UBM courtesy of Press Gazette United Business Media increased profits in the first six months of the year despite a 14% drop in revenue at its magazine division… The company said its print...
View ArticleDon’t Panic! (10/08/10)
Running counter to the hope that advertising might be picking up in the US, is this wee bit of news courtesy of Folio: Consumer magazines continued its general circulation decline through the first...
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Hot on the heels of Centaur’s closure of Public Sector Building, Unity Media has suspended Public Sector and Local Government Building magazine. Amusingly, they say that this is a “temporary suspension...
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Newsstand has taken a definite turn for the worse for a handful of niche and small magazine with the news that Leeds-based distributor Native Publisher Services has closed the doors. As we know from...
View ArticleNative Going
Newsstand has taken a definite turn for the worse for a handful of niche and small magazine with the news that Leeds-based distributor Native Publisher Services has closed the doors. As we know from...
View ArticleNative Going
Newsstand has taken a definite turn for the worse for a handful of niche and small magazine with the news that Leeds-based distributor Native Publisher Services has closed the doors. As we know from...
View ArticleNative Going
Newsstand has taken a definite turn for the worse for a handful of niche and small magazine with the news that Leeds-based distributor Native Publisher Services has closed the doors. As we know from...
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