6 Ways for Magazines to Build Their Future
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We’ve written quite a bit lately about the new landscape of the publishing world, as brand marketers turn to journalism and magazines are being leveraged into successful multi-platform business models. While some magazines do continue to profit with the traditional...
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 A Deeper Look at Paywall Strategies
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Selling a product these days provides much more than simply the revenue from that product. When done properly, it provides invaluable information about the purchaser, data that is often worth far more than the cost of admission. “Publishers launch paywalls...
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What Publishers Must Understand about Ingenuity in the Digital Age
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Technology has altered everything about our lives, from how we wake in the morning to how we get ready for bed. And in the process of this massive shift, it’s also radically changed our ideas of how business should be...
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Monocle’s Tyler Brûlé on Making Money with Print
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Tyler Brûlé managed to create a thriving media business centered on the Monocle title during a time when other publishers were wringing their hands in angst over digital and the “death of print.” He recently shared some insights with Peter...
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Print Won’t Kick You Off Your Own Couch
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It’s no secret that a slew of online companies are printing magazines now. And the reasons behind each brand’s decision are as varied as the magazines themselves. According to Piet van Niekerk in Print Power, for some brands it’s about...
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Madison Market a Good One for Print Magazines
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Mike Kornemann knows his market. And he knows that a majority of his readers are bullish on print magazines. “When…Kornemann speaks to classes at places like the Madison Media Institute, he always asks how many of the students read magazines,”...
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On Snow and Clouds and Print Magazines
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What a great analogy from our good friend Samir “Mr. Magazine” Husni. This is terrific: “As the magazine and magazine media world navigate their way through the maze of problems and possible solutions to the print + digital dilemma that...
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Should Publishers Push Either Digital or Print?
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For some of us, it’s pretty hard to be platform agnostic. Us print geeks find ourselves longing to read a format that we can touch, feel and yes, smell (an associate admitted that when her most recent issue of Southern...
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How Magazines Have Turned Over a New Leaf
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Spend 30 years in the magazine media business and you'll tend to learn a thing or two. Tom Bureau of Immediate Media isn’t shy about laying it out as he sees it. “Yes, magazine media brands are seeing print circulations...
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Red Bulletin Digital Readership “Disappointingly Low”
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The folks at Red Bull have turned the aggressively-marketed energy drink into a media force to be reckoned with. (Who can forget the Red Bull logo plastered everywhere during Felix Baumgartner’s epic sky dive?) “The drink brand has become a...
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