How to generate more revenue as a target-interest magazine publisher
Our friend Carl Landau run the Niche Digital Conference. The conference is about generating more online and mobile revenue for niche
Computer and electronics company CDW has launched an Apple Newsstand app for its consumer magazines, Talking New Media reports. Of CDW's four magazines – BizTech, FedTech, StateTech, and EdTech –
Talking New Media examines the potential impact that a larger iPhone 6 – with displays measuring up to 5.5 inches diagonally – might have on digital publishers' plans for native
Last Tuesday we took a look at the 25 top magazines by digital circulation, according to data released by AAM for the period July-December 2013. That was a fun time,
Condé Nast launched Lipstick.com through its Glamour brand yesterday, while Hearst is rolling out Beauty Unbound across multiple properties this May, including Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar, and Town & Country.
Bayou City wins Best Niche Start-up Award
We couldn’t be prouder of our client, Bayou City, for their recent recognition by Niche Media. We’ve helped with hundreds of launches over past
What is a “lifetime” product? At Scientific American, it’s their brand-new all-access bundle of print magazine, digital and a massive 150,000-article archive, dating back to the magazine’s first issue in
If you're trying to make your content shareable, you may want to check out The Media Briefing's new post about BuzzFeed's five rules of creating sharable content. We'll dive into
Field & Stream gets it right the second time
If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know that we’re big fans of Bonnier Corp. for its embrace of digital
FOLIO is reporting that La Presse+ has had a huge success with their digital edition. Jennifer Silber writes, "The free digital edition of Montreal-based daily newspaper La Presse.
There’s no better example of how critical a subscription website can be to a legacy publisher than the story of Psychotherapy Networker.
This 30-year-old magazine was launched by a group
Stipla is a new interactive iPad magazine that tells the stories of people from around the world. Cool Hunting's Nara Shin writes, "Stipla combines writing with panoramic photographs.
From augmented reality to trends in nontraditional gift-giving, Bayou City magazine’s subscription website publishing adventures epitomize the 21st century.
Bayoucitynetwork.com launched in early November, exactly one year after it was born
At last.
We’ve noted here that it seemed simply astounding that a publisher with the vast resources of Time Inc. was putting out a blurry product. TIME magazine – granddaddy of
On October 14th, a print newsletter publisher blossomed into a multi-platform publisher. That was the day we helped launch one of our newest Mequoda Systems, NutritionAction.com, the home of
As a 36-year-old, Outside magazine from Mariah Media is, naturally, quite physically fit. Established in 1977 by Rolling Stone co-founder and publisher Jann Wenner (also current owner of Men’s Journal
Subscription website publishing: It’s the core of every publishing business today. The website is where you drive traffic, post content to enthrall your audience and sell lots of products, including
Every six months, the Alliance for Audited Media issues its top 25 lists of reporting magazines for various data points. Most recently, this past June, it issued its list for
Each year, as the Mequoda team gets together with our Gold Members at our annual Mequoda Gold Member Summit, there's a bit of magic in the air, it feels like
The last time I read MAD magazine was as a young teenager. The thing I loved the most, besides Spy vs Spy (the Wikipedia link is included for you young
Publishers have been experimenting with their paywalls all summer. See why paywall experimentation is a digital publishing trend. Esquire has been up performing all kinds of paywall experiments this summer.
Popular Science, founded in 1872 and now owned by mega-publisher Bonnier Corp., is the fifth-oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. But as old as it is, its focus
According to AdAge, Game Informer accounts for one third of all digital magazine subscriptions. Michael Sebastian reports, "The 22-year-old magazine, which previews and reviews videogames, has a digital replica circulation
The Guardian has a full report on how the luxury titles at Conde' Nast have been performing. Josh Halliday reports,"Thumping in at 430 pages, the September issue of Vogue is
The periodical website archetype is often associated with newspaper brands and other news periodicals that include trade papers like Computerworld and Variety.
Periodical subscription websites may also be called news sites,
In one of the most interesting paywall experiments we've ever seen, there's a new article on what The Sun is up to.
"The company is launching a new digital subscription package
For a publication with roots deep in the Victorian era, founded by a conservative Scottish hatmaker, The Economist is a surprising innovator in the modern publishing era.
Apparently, despite its stodgy
iPad-only magazine blows up the envelope gorgeously
It’s not often that someone defies conventional wisdom so profoundly and still makes a success of it.
But that’s what TRVL magazine has achieved.
TRVL is
What do you when your website already publishes every word that appears in your premium print and digital publications for free? Um, well, uh … if you’re The Atlantic, you
Debate rages in magazine land about the future of the industry, and especially the role that digital magazine publishing will play in that future. But at least at Active Interest
With all the talk about tablets and digital magazines these days, it’s tempting to think of the desktop or laptop, and the website you worked so hard to establish back
What began with devices has now turned to software.
Digital magazine publishing software is evolving to focus on a better user experience. In turn, online publishers are partnering with platforms that
We talk a lot about the Online Magazine Index – OMI – that’s a fairly accurate measure of a publisher’s Internet savvy. In subscription website publishing, you should easily have
It’s always a good time when a woman gets to read a men’s magazine as part of her job.
I swear I was researching whether Men’s Health advertises their digital edition
My assignment last Friday was to review the app created by The Atlantic, a 156-year-old publication that was born from the minds of Boston’s intellectual elite – hardly a publication
Anyone who doubts that the iPad is the most important media-related technological innovation in all of human history should re-read those dates. And the exciting thing for those of us
What your ecommerce website design should look like from the first page to the thank-you page
Publishers sometimes forget that they are retailers; publishers do sell subscriptions, memberships, books, ancillary products,
Tablet usage and functionality may lead to changes, dictating how and when digital publishing distribute content
Tablets, and the iPad in particular, have become the digital edition of the daily news.
Pure digital magazine publishing continues to grow amid digital medium expansion
Last week we shared a few stories on the growth of digital magazine publishing, which includes the transition away from
Insight from the OPA spurs tips on digital magazine publishing
If you think about all the types of digital content that exists, would you expect tablet owners to be buying digital
While the magazine industry struggles to reinvent magazines, magazine consumers are snapping up digital magazine replica editions like hotcakes at a 24/7 IHOP
This reporter has it on good authority that
Why product, price, and offer have never been more important
The rush to create and sell digital information products is leaving a lot of money on the table. While I believe
Should your digital magazine be free, paid or something in between?
Peter Sprague is a disruptive guy. About five years ago, Peter decided the world needed a new guitar magazine. Peter
Growing your digital media strategy to match the future needs of your customers
In the last year, the sales of eBooks have grown 169.4% to $164.1M, while the combined categories of
Publishers want to sell subscriptions and Apple wants to sell iPads; see how the two can work together
Pundits covering the iPad have been saying that Apple is not allowing publishers
Awards Finalists Start the Creative Juices Flowing
The finalists for min’s Editorial and Design Awards were announced today, and it provides a good chance to look at some of the best
