Monthly magazine ad pages are down 33%, or 8,359 ad pages this year. For Conde Nast in particular: continue reading...
This is sad. Conde Nast is one of the finer magazine and media companies… but I guess no one is immune to the realities of the macro (economy) and micro (print) economies.
Conde Nast is shutting down a bunch of magazines: continue reading...
This is surprising:
Conde Nast will shut down one of its web-only brands, Men.Style.com, when it gives two of its titles, GQ and Details, their own websites in October. continue reading...
Business Week has a good quick Q&A on why Conde Nast failed with Portfolio. continue reading...
There are a few basic lessons to be learned from Conde Nast’s decision to close Portfolio, despite sinking $100M into the launch. continue reading...
While 2008 finished off with companies doing their best to cling on to anything to avoid from being sucked into the maelstrom, I think - despite the continued stock market meltdown - that many companies are seeing some stabilization in their core business. In other words: yes, 2008 Q4 saw a rapid evaporation of booked business, but 2009 is not looking as dire as some expected.
Online Remains a Beacon of Growth continue reading...
Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it, goes the adage… and listening to print media managers, I would almost think we were in 2001-2003 again. Let’s flash back to that era, or the February 2001 issue of Maxim, to be precise, where the lad mag’s editor Keith Blanchard proclaimed in his Editor’s Letter (!): continue reading...
Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
It’s clear that we didn’t learn from history in boom times. A lot of the excess and irrational behavior of the 1996-1999 era was repeated in the 2005-2007 period. continue reading...
A day after venerable TV-centric media company CBS acquired CNET for $1.8B, print-centric media empire Conde Nast steps in and acquires Ars Technica for $25M, according to Tech Crunch.
Time Warner bought Weblogs for $25M in 2005, the same price Conde Nast paid for Wired last year. continue reading...
Life isn’t getting any better for magazine companies:
According to figures released by the Publishers Information Bureau and TNS Media Intelligence, in Q1 2008: continue reading...
