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Ad Industry Roundup: Job Numbers; Conde Nast; NBCU/Fox; AzoogleAds; Modernista; McDonald’s; Omnicom - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 02 Apr 2008 02:51 PM PST

-- Online jobs post first year-over-year decline: Online job vacancies posted an unusually poor showing last month, as the Conference Board said listings fell slightly by 21,200 from March 2007…

Industry Moves: The Atlantic Recruits Wired’s Jay Lauf As Publisher And VP - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 26 Mar 2008 06:40 PM PST

The Atlantic has recruited Conde Nast’s Wired publisher Jay Lauf as its publisher and VP. Outgoing publisher Elizabeth Baker Keffer will take charge of Atlantic Live. Lauf had been at…

Broadband Content Bits: Showtime; iTunes-Starz; Yahoo Show; Fox’s ‘Rookie’; Sony; NYT Style Mag - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 26 Mar 2008 10:47 AM PST

-- Showtime’s The Tudors to premiere across video sites: As Showtime’s historical drama series The Tudors gets ready to kick off its second season on Sunday, the CBS (NYSE: CBS)…

BusinessWeek Opens Online Gaming ‘Arcade’ - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 25 Mar 2008 09:22 AM PST

In the past, BusinessWeek might have considered licensing its brand to a board game. Instead, the McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) pub hopes to bring a little more fun to its website…

Ziff Davis Enterprise Secures $20 Million Funding To Promote Acquisitions - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 18 Mar 2008 06:39 AM PST

B2B tech publisher Ziff Davis Enterprise has raised $20 million in funding from Bessemer Venture Partners. ZDE will use the funding to pursue acquisitions and create services related to audience…

Folio Jobs Survey Finds Mag Staffers Feel Immune To Cuts, As Business Shifts To Digital - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 04 Mar 2008 02:14 PM PST

For the most part, magazine staffers are not personally worried about their own jobs, though many have noted the increasing occurrence of layoffs and downsizing over the past year, according…

Conde Nast Separates Print And Digital Ad Sales For Bridal Mags - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 04 Mar 2008 11:10 AM PST

Conde Nast has completed a reorg of its bridal magazines’ ad sales teams, which involves separating its digital and print sides, Mediaweek reported. The move is part of a company-wide…

IDG Expands Ad Network To Outside Blogs - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Sun 02 Mar 2008 09:51 PM PST

IDG has completed the first expansion phase of its IDG TechNetwork. As Bob Carrigan, IDG Communications’ CEO, told us last month, the company had been planning to open up the…

Success Magazine Wins Six Month Battle To Own ‘Success.com’ Domain - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 29 Feb 2008 10:49 AM PST

As it prepares to relaunch its print version next week, small biz title Success magazine has prevailed in a bid to own the domain ”Success.com." The magazine site, which had…

Interview: Chris Johnson, VP, Hearst Digital: Pinning Its Digital Strategy On Portals - 3 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 28 Feb 2008 11:00 AM PST

Like pretty much every large magazine publisher, Hearst has been heavily focused on refining its online strategy for the past year. After a good deal of experimentation, the company has…

The Knot Buys Local Pregnancy Guide The Bump - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 28 Feb 2008 01:25 AM PST

No, not a joke or a wordplay, but wedding lifestyle network The Knot has bought The Bump, a magazine and website focused on pregnancy issues. Terms were not disclosed. The…

Interview: Vivek Shah, President, Fortune/Money Group: So Far, No Recession Signs From Advertisers - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 27 Feb 2008 07:13 PM PST

It’s been several months since Time Inc. closed down Business 2.0 as a print mag and folded it into Fortune. But Vivek Shah, president, Fortune/Money Group says that the move…

Friday Videos: Meredith President On Staying Relevant; Former Ask CEO On Search’s Future - 4 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 22 Feb 2008 11:39 AM PST

Couple of short video interviews for a more relaxed Friday (RSS readers will have to click through): 1) From Folio: an interview with Meredith (NYSE: MDP) president Jack Griffin, on…

RBI CEO Defends Against Cyclicality, Sort Of; Variety And THR May Cycle Through - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 21 Feb 2008 06:57 PM PST

And while Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) CEO Sir Crispin Davis gave “cyclicality” as the main reason why he wants the B2B giant to get out of the Reed Business Information…

Reed Business Information To Be Sold Off; “Reducing Exposure To Cyclicality” - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 21 Feb 2008 12:56 AM PST

Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK), the Anglo-Dutch B2B media giant, which just announced a $4.1 billion acquisition and its 2007 results, also dropped another big one: it is going to sell…

Earnings: Playboy Q4 Revs Flat; Swings To Loss On Charges; Online Ads Up - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 13 Feb 2008 06:02 AM PST

Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) announced Q4 revenue of $85.9 million, down slightly from $86.2 million in the equivalent quarter. The company booked a $1.1 million ($.03 per share) net loss,…

Worth Magazine Sold To Luxury Publisher Sandow; Digital Investments Planned - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 12 Feb 2008 02:49 PM PST

Wealth management magazine Worth has been sold by current owner CurtCo Media, which also publishes the luxury magazine Robb Report. The acquirer is Boca Raton-based Sandow Media, which publishes Luxe…

Spin Teams With MySpace For Digital Edition - 2 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 07 Feb 2008 05:00 PM PST

Spin Digital and MySpace have teamed up to put Spin online as a digital magazine, not just a companion site. The interactive reading experience, powered by Texterity, offers links on…

@ Dealmaker’s Summit: MSLO’s Wenda Harris Millard On YHOO’s ‘Monomaniacal Obsession’ With GOOG - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 07 Feb 2008 09:36 AM PST

Almost a week after Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) unveiled its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), former chief sales officer Wenda Harris Millard, now president of media for Martha Stewart…

Philadelpha Style Mag Sold To Publisher Niche Media; Includes DCStyle.com, ACConfidential.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 05 Feb 2008 09:24 AM PST

Philadephia Style, a lifestyle magazine for Philadelphia, has sold itself to Niche Media, a publisher of regional magazines. In addition to the flagship publication and its website, the deal also…

Industry Standard Relaunches As A Community Site; Interview: Bob Carrigan, CEO, IDG - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Sun 03 Feb 2008 10:01 PM PST

IDG’s The Industry Standard gets its second life on Monday, this time as a Web-only community site with a prediction market at the center. The magazine seemed to mirror the…

@ SIIA: This Used To Be A Media Culture; Now It’s An “Engineer Culture” - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 30 Jan 2008 03:22 PM PST

The fascination with Rupert Murdoch was center stage during a discussion on old media vs. new media at the SIIA Information Industry Summit. When Tribune CEO and chairman Sam Zell’s…

NYMag Rents Online Reviews Out To Real Estate Broker Site - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 28 Jan 2008 12:48 PM PST

New York Magazine has a second home for some of its online restaurant reviews and shopping tips: real estate broker Halstead Properties has added a live feed called Real Access…

Earnings: McGraw-Hill Q4 Income Slides 31.3 Percent; BW.com Revs Up 10.5 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 24 Jan 2008 05:27 AM PST

McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP), parent company of BusinessWeek and Standard & Poor’s, did Q4 revenue of $1.56 billion, down 1.5 percent from $1.59 billion in the previous year’s quarter. Net income…

Earnings: Meredith Revs And Income Flat; Interactive Up 25 percent; Broadcast Video Streams Doubled - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 22 Jan 2008 06:05 AM PST

Publisher and marketer Meredith (NYSE: MDP) reported revenue of $396.2 million for its quarter ending December 31, down .8 percent from last year’s $399.3 million. Income from continuing operations came…