Executive Views

No Nudes Is Good News, As Playboy Bares All For Upfronts

VAIL, CO — Playboy is gearing up to take its content roster to advertisers this comin...

By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
The Atlantic Embraces Social Distribution, Responsibly
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
The Economist Tells Brand Stories To Dodge Ad Disruption, Paul Rossi explains
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Meredith Advertisers Can Measure Live, Real-World Results
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Hearst’s Ad Sale Approach: Diverse Models & Partners
By Robert Andrews  
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Executive Views
Conde Nast Finds A Fit For Films Beyond The Page
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Making free pay: seven lessons from media businesses that stopped charging
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Executive Views
Time.com Sees A Fifth Of Video Views From Mobile Web
By Robert Andrews  
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Executive Views
Time Inc To Launch Mobile Video Content Channel
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
News Corp.’s The Daily is dead, long live The Daily?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Content and commerce collide in Grazia‘s iPad edition
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Future selling $1 million per month in tablet magazines
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Does a supermarket magazine really have more readers than The Sun?
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis

Le Kiosk raising €5.6 million to make bundled tablet mags social

Earlier this summer, I wrote about Le Kiosk, a French start-up trying to bring an a l...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
PRSS aims to be a low-cost iPad magazine factory in the cloud
By Robert Andrews  
Essays
The very long tail – how magazines could make their archives sing
By Robert Andrews  
Earnings analysis
Future has made £5 million from iPad magazines in a year
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Newsprint joins the internet of things
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Digital magazines boom too little to grow overall sales
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
While publishers levy digital fees, Time Out goes free on London streets
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
iPad magazine bundler LeKiosk tries to crack UK, Italy
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
Meredith’s Schimel: Now moms are early tech adopters, too
By Robert Andrews  
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Interviews
Interview: 5 Questions for Future CEO Mark Wood
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Digital reading beginning to take Chinese mindshare
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Flipboard is ‘head-on competitor’ on Economist’s road to all-digital
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Tail wags dog: new Hearst magazine is made for iPad, even in print
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Gaming the magazine: IPC flips page to advergames

What if a magazine publisher had devised Angry Birds? Time Inc’s UK publisher IPC Med...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Video: Print’s Not Dead, It’s Getting High In The Sky
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Flipboard Goes French And More Magazine-Like
By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Interview: Vogue Publisher Plans To Digitize Archives For Tablet Long Tail
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Condé Nast Aims To Unify Tablet And Mobile Magazine Production
By Robert Andrews  
Zeitungen
Market indicators
Magazine Publishers Running Ahead Of Auditors With UK Digital Editions
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Two Become One: How Magazines Will Ape Their Apps
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Milestone: Digital Gains Offset Magazines’ Decline At Future
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Future’s Newsstand Transformation: 75,000 New Subscribers
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The Lesser-Spotted Android Magazine: Future’s T3
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Future Launching TechRadar State-Side To Turn U.S. Fortunes
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Axel Springer Becomes Industry’s Latest Newsstand And Flipboard Clone
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
From Leanback To Stand-Up, iPad’s Flipboard Flips To Phone
By Robert Andrews  
Earnings analysis

Future Aims To Turn U.S. Around With Digital After Swinging To A Loss

Future wants to tackle a worsening U.S. print magazine market by merging its UK and U...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Corrected: Nook, Zinio Tie iPad For Magazine Publisher Take-Up
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Updated: Newsstand’s Few Early Adopters Have Stolen A March On Laggards
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Condé Nast Marries Print And iPad Subscriptions In UK
By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Interview: Zinio CEO Not Threatened By Apple’s Own Newsstand
By Robert Andrews  
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Industry moves
Updated: Future’s CEO Spring Exits To Cut Costs
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The Economist Bows To Apple Terms As iOS 5 Breaks Its App
By Robert Andrews  
Apple’s Newsstand Is Already Booming For Some Magazine Publishers
Company strategy
Apple’s Newsstand Is Already Booming For Some Magazine Publishers
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Virgin’s iPad Mag Project Reboots On Newsstand Under New Ownership
By Robert Andrews  
Interview: Future Publishing’s Tablet Chief Embracing iPad’s Newsstand
Interviews
Interview: Future Publishing’s Tablet Chief Embracing iPad’s Newsstand
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Company strategy
Publishers Mull iOS 5’s Promise And Problems
By Robert Andrews  
Apple’s Newsstand Debuts, Grouping iOS Publications In One Folder
Company strategy
Apple’s Newsstand Debuts, Grouping iOS Publications In One Folder
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Future Mulls Radical U.S. Digital Publishing Re-Think, Sell-Off?
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Sony Swaps Future’s Paid Playstation Video For Free Alternative

After apparently achieving low take-up for FirstPlay, the £0.99-a-week video magazine...

By Robert Andrews  
Conference reports
@ pcAds: Hearst Wants Tablet Magazines To Adopt Movie, TV Pricing
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Google Kills Its Fast Flip News Reading Experiment
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Why Apple’s Subscription Terms Are A Lose-Lose-Lose
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Future Turns From Magbooks To E-books
By Robert Andrews  
News Corp’s Project Alesia Team Releasing An iPad Product After All
Company strategy
News Corp’s Project Alesia Team Releasing An iPad Product After All
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Apple Lets Subscription Providers Hike iOS Prices To Absorb Its 30 Percent
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Haymarket Will Charge For Its Marketing Industry News Sites
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Tablets Tip Future To First Digital Profit
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Tablets And Mobiles Still Await Their Killer Web App
By Robert Andrews  
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Interviews
Sports Illustrated’s McDonell On Apple: Our Subscribers Are Most Important
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Forbes Still Sees Web, Print Separation As It Unveils European Magazine
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Conde Nast Tests The Water For Wired In Germany
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Parenting Site Gurgle Goes In To Print

The parenting website Gurgle.com is the latest online property to launch a printed me...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
NatMag, Johnston Add Some Mobile Offerings
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
A Magazine About Death Comes Back From The Dead On The Web
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Bonnier Gives Away Its New iPad Magazine Builder
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
How UBM’s ‘Project Caxton’ Brainstorms Content Strategy
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Computer Weekly Magazine Killed After 45 Years, As Website Is Sold
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Autosport Magazine Expects New Android App To Overtake iOS
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Google Is Not About To Become A Magazine Publisher
By Robert Andrews  
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Insights
Publishers Lobby And Re-Group On Digital Policy
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Project iPad Mag Flips To Free Thanks To AmEx Sponsorship
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Bonnier Spins Out Its Mag+ Tablet Concept
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Magazine Printer Sold Amid Digital Challenge
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Digital Mag Vendor Exact Extends Its Own iPad Subs Option
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators

The 10-Year View: UK Magazine Sales Hit Another Low

*ABC* data is out today for UK autumn and winter magazine sales. The industry’s Perio...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Apple Subs: Some Publishers Relieved They Dodged A Bullet
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Concerned Publishers Group Says ‘Apple Is Not The Only Offer On The Table’
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Why The Daily’s Detractors Are Missing The Point
By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Interview: John Menzies Reboots Its Digital Publishing Business
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Lagardère Seals Deal To Off-Load Global Magazines To Hearst
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Slide Deck: Lagardere’s Tablet Publishing Strategy And Apple Talks
By Robert Andrews  
Publishers’ iPad Subs’ Grumbles Earn Apple Antitrust Attention
Company strategy
Publishers’ iPad Subs’ Grumbles Earn Apple Antitrust Attention
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Future Sees iPad As A Bookazine Vehicle For Now
By Robert Andrews  
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First Look: Branson’s Virgin iPad Project Frustrates With Complexity
By Robert Andrews  
Video: Virgin’s iPad Mag ‘Project’ Gets Animated, Coming Tuesday
Company strategy
Video: Virgin’s iPad Mag ‘Project’ Gets Animated, Coming Tuesday
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Video: Bonnier’s News+ Crystallises Publishers’ Tablet Dreams
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The Economist Hits iPad, Targeting A Million Paying Digital Readers
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Wired’s UK iPad Edition Debuts, Priced Between Print Copy And Print Sub

Wired magazine’s UK version has unveiled its debut iPad edition alongside its Decembe...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Mobile Entertainment Trade Mag Shuts Print Edition
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Mobile Entertainment Trade Mag Shuts Print Edition
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Russian Newsweek Ceases Publishing By Axel Springer
By Robert Andrews  
M&A analysis
IPC Selling Web User Magazine, Website To Dennis
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Wired UK Will Test One-Off iPad Edition Before A Rolling Schedule
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Haymarket’s Debut Jaguar App Roams Free
By Robert Andrews  
Zeitungen
Company strategy
Google Ads Make ‘Nuppence Ha’penny’ For Digital Mags
By Robert Andrews  
The Message Isn’t Always The Medium
Company strategy
The Message Isn’t Always The Medium
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
The 10-Year View: UK Magazine Sales Close To A Decade Low
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Forbes Gains Russian Domain Name After Court Fight
By Robert Andrews  
Digital Imitation Is A Form Of Flattery For Old-Guard Publishers
Market analysis
Digital Imitation Is A Form Of Flattery For Old-Guard Publishers
By Robert Andrews  
Reader’s Digest Planning Short-Form Web Articles As Print Teasers
Company strategy
Reader’s Digest Planning Short-Form Web Articles As Print Teasers
By Robert Andrews  
Insights

Print Can Still Do Innovative Ads, Especially For Paper

Now here’s an ad format the web will never replicate. IPC Media is giving Kleenex...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Spectator’s iPad magazine will have monthly ‘pay membrane’
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Spectator’s iPad Mag Will Have Monthly ‘Pay Membrane’
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
15 Ways Publishers Are Re-Imagining The Magazine
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
iPad Apps Won’t Count To ABC Net Circulation In UK
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Wired iPad Edition Will Likely Be Cheaper Than Print
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Future Shuffles Games Portfolio Leadership
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