Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 29 August 2008 at 10:25
Tags: B2B Magazines, Launch Pad, Magazines
Weekly trade title for the performing arts, The Stage, has appointed creative agency 300 million to orchestrate a rebranding of the title, reports Mad.
The overhaul will include all the title’s products including the magazine, with a new online project planned for later this year.
Posted by
Patrick Smith
on 29 August 2008 at 08:06
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Magazines, New Media, Newspapers, Online, Photography
A whole host of publishers have employed the services of sports video provider Perform, a company specialising in “monetising sports and entertainment rights in digital media”.
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 28 August 2008 at 14:24
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Launch Pad, Magazines
Delius Klasing Verlag publishing have launched a high-end boating magazine to launch at the Monaco Yacht Show this year.
Boat Exclusive will publish six times a year to coincide with the German edition Boote Exclusiv, which has been covering the world of superyachts for twenty years.
The German edition of the magazine is available in 15 countries around the world, and the new English edition aims to “tears down the language barrier and brings luxury yachts to an even wider audience” and will be available in 57 countries, priced £4.80 in the UK.
The magazine covers construction projects, new yachts and development in the industry.
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 28 August 2008 at 14:07
Tags: Customer publishing, Launch Pad, Magazines
Customer publisher Brooklands Group is to launch a new magazine for Vauxhall Commerical Vehicles.
The Wheels of Business, launching in September, will be sent to customers and prospective customers and will tips and advice on running a small business and road tests of Vauxhall’s commercial vehicles line-up.
Brooklands already publishes V, the Vauxhall magazine, Plus magazine for Chevrolet and the Vauxhall Drivers’ centre website.
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 27 August 2008 at 09:09
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines
IPC’s Woman’s Weekly has had a redesign “retaining its core design and editorial values” but creating a “brighter and more contemporary look”.
New features in the 50-plus magazine include rotating celebrity column ‘It’s A Funny Old World’, fashion page ‘ Yes You can Wear It’ and a new cookery section ‘Cook With Us’.
Editor Diane Kenwood, who joined the title in December, said: “We’ve introduced a subtle but more modern new look for the cover, giving the magazine maximum stand out on the newsstand. And the new content and refreshed design inside means it will deliver even more fantastic value to the reader and reinforce our position as the indispensable weekly magazine for mature women.”
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 26 August 2008 at 16:27
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Launch Pad, Magazines
BBC Magazines’ hair monthly has had a redesign, unveiling a new logo and new sections.
The new look Your Hair magazine will be in a smaller format – 213mm x 269mm, will have more hair style ideas, increased editorial and a new section called ‘Upfront’ which will highlight the new trends in hair.
Michelle Tiernan, editor, said: “The look is very fresh and packed with everything that our readers have told us they want – more fabulous styles, expert advice from the top stylists in the country, and amazing insider secrets to looking like an A-lister.”
The October issue of Your Hair magazine also comes with a free 28-page Your Hair Product Awards 2008.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 26 August 2008 at 10:31
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines
Children as young as eight are being paid as little as 12p per day to sell BBC magazines such as Top Gear and Good Homes on roadside pitches in India, the Sunday Times reports. The BBC says it is “working urgently” to tackle the problem.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 26 August 2008 at 10:25
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Media Business
Emap boss David Gilbertson has come under fire after sending off an email to staff revealing that his holiday home in the Dordogne could sleep “about 50″.
Staff have complained that the email was insensitive, the Mail on Sunday reports, coming at a time when Emap publications have been asked to cut spending by between £100,000 and £200,000 - or find other ways of making money.
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 26 August 2008 at 10:07
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines
Mike Soutar, editor of free men’s weekly Shortlist, has predicted that the men’s sector will see more free magazines, reports Media Guardian.
He said: “We’re at a point where paid-for magazine sales will continue to decline. There is room for new brands that don’t have the stigma of the old.”
Defending the ‘lads’ mags’, editor of Nuts, Dominic Smith, said he thinks the downturn in circulation in the men’s sector is exaggerated, and that Nuts, which saw its circulation drop of 9.8 per cent year on year for the first half of 2008 , is in “rude health”.
He said: “We have witnessed all the major changes in the men’s market. When the weeklies launched they were a huge novelty and we had huge growth, but the market has slowed down now. Our situation is no different from that at Heat - although in a smaller market, it will plateau - but I don’t think things will change much in the next few years.”
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 22 August 2008 at 11:43
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Law, Magazines
Victoria Beckham is considering legal action against IPC Media’s celebrity weekly Now following a story claiming she uses diet pills.
According to American gossip website, Beckham’s publicist said: “”The accusation by Now Magazine (Aug 10) that Victoria Beckham is taking any kind of slimming pill is dangerous, defamatory and blatantly untrue. Victoria takes her position as a role model to young women very seriously and is horrified by this hurtful, fabricated story. It is now in the hand of her lawyers.”
In June last year Beckham won “substantial” undisclosed libel damages from New magazine following a story headed “Posh Breaks down – Why Does Everyone Hate Me?”, in which an insider was quoted as describing her as “coming off as a grade A bitch.”
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 22 August 2008 at 09:26
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Media Business
German publishing house Gruner + Jahr (majority owned by Bertlesmann) has confirmed it is among those bidding in a second round for Reed Business Information.
The publisher of titles including New Scientist, Variety and Farmers Weekly was put up for sale in February by parent company Reed Elsevier.
According to the Daily Telegraph, 12 bidders have made offers of between £1 billion and £1.25 billion for the business in a first round of bidding. According to Reuters, second-round bids are being sought in the coming weeks with final bidding likely to happen in early October.
Most of the bids are understood to be from private equity firms. Reed has indicated that RBI could be sold as one unit - or broken up.
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 20 August 2008 at 12:25
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Online
The editor of Bauer Consumer Media’s heavy metal weekly Kerrang! has revealed he checks the BBC News website as soon as he wakes up to see if any rock stars have died.
In an interview with The Independent, Paul Brannigan said: “I check the BBC news website on my Blackberry the minute I wake up. Partly, and I know this sounds rather morbid, to make sure no one important in Kerrang!’s world has died overnight which would necessitate starting the issue from scratch again, as happened when the guitarist Dimebag Darrell (Damageplan/Pantera) was murdered on stage in 2004, or when Joe Strummer passed away.”
Kerrang! suffered a 27.9 per cent circulation drop year on year for the first half of 2008, down to 60,290.
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 20 August 2008 at 12:13
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines
Condé Nast’s fashion monthly, Vogue, has poached Grazia’s beauty director.
Nicola Moulton will join the magazine on 26 August as health and beauty director.
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 20 August 2008 at 11:23
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines
Media agency Carat has stopped all advertising in Maxim after Dennis Publishing’s men’s monthly suffered a year-on-year circulation decline of almost 60 per cent, reports Marketing magazine.
Maxim’s sales dropped to 43,542 for the first half of 2008.
Dennis said at the time of the ABC release that the more upmarket redesign last year was a “change in the core brand value to reduce the levels of glamour content” and claimed it had improved the environment for advertisers and had attracted new partners.
Simon Clark, publishing director, said: ‘We are now investing more in editorial - from paper stock to staff.’
Dennis is under contract to continue publishing Maxim for five years after it sold it’ American arm to US private equity group Quadrangle last year.
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 20 August 2008 at 10:39
Tags: Broadcast, Consumer Magazines, Magazines, New Media, Online, Television
ITN’s multimedia division, ITN On, has made a deal with video-sharing site Dailymotion to delivering five new channels including ITN News, which will have a daily environmental news bulletin.
The new content produced by ITN On also includes T3 Gadget Show for the Games and Gadgets channel, made in association with Future’s gadget magazine, T3.
Other channels are ITN Sport, ITN Music and OMG.
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 19 August 2008 at 11:26
Tags: Magazines
Sky is to bring the publication TV listings title, Skymag, in-house next month from News Magazines, which is set to close following a review of owners News International by James Murdoch , reports Media Week.
News International is still looking for a buyer for its real life weekly, Love It!.
After considering contracting SkyMag to its former publisher, John Brown Publishing, it decided to bring Skymag in-house and transfer “most” of the staff.
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 18 August 2008 at 10:48
Tags: Journalism, Magazines
The New Statesmen has invited readers to decide on the subject of the weekly magazine’s investigative journalism.
The title, which claims to have “developed an unrivalled reputation for investigative journalism”, is asking readers to tell them what they think the magazine’s priorities should be, and has suggested five areas they feel need investigating, but is open to further suggestions.
The five areas open to vote n the magazine’s website are Conservative Party Funding; lobbying; Prince Charles; the state of British childhood and the asylum crisis.
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 18 August 2008 at 09:35
Tags: Magazines
Following his comments that “lads’ mags” were partly responsible for the decline in family values in young men, conservative education spokesman Michael Gove, has written to the editors of the titles inviting them to his House of Commons office to discuss his comments, reports The Observer.
He wrote: “Iwant to ensure that we are always open-minded and willing to learn from different perspectives.”
Editor of lads’ weekly Zoo, Ben Todd has agreed to meet with him, and defended his magazine saying there’s a lot more to it than girls and claims the title has written extensively about knife crime and sent a reporter to cover the battle between Georgia and Russia. He said: “Maybe he hadn’t really looked at the magazine. We had one of our reporters with British troops in Iraq recently, as well as an interview with crime minister [Vernon Coaker].’
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 15 August 2008 at 09:38
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Launch Pad, Magazines
The founders of alternative golf magazine Golf Punk are launching a new football magazine.
Football Punk launches this week, edited by Ian Cruise, and is set to be “the thinking man’s soccer mag.”
The first four issues of the magazine will be given away as a supplement with the next four issues of Golf Punk, with a newsstand launch planned for January.
Posted by
Rachael Gallagher
on 15 August 2008 at 09:28
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Launch Pad, Magazines
Listings guide Time Out has launched an edition in Bengaluru.
Fortnightly Time Out Bengaluru will be published in English and will cover city life, including: art, film, music, theatre, nightlife, restaurants and shopping.
It will be published Paprika Media Pvt. Ltd. who already publish Outs in Mumbai and Delhi.
Pallav Moitra, CEO of Paprika Media said: “We have already set up a strong distribution platform and we expect the interest in the magazine to grow with the promotional activities that we have started within the city.”
