Readable text, scrollable text, links to websites, embedded video, back issue archive, vertical swipe, copy and paste capability, content bookmarking, relevant advertising, general advertising, and companion print magazine. Which functions
The primary stat we set out to understand in this study was what percent of U.S. adults with Internet access reported reading a digital magazine issue in the last 30
Five years after Apple introduced the iPad and the magazine industry latched on for dear life, digital magazine consumption has reached 43% of print magazine consumption and is climbing rapidly.
July 21, 2015 – BOSTON — Five years after Apple introduced the iPad and the magazine industry latched on for dear life, digital magazine consumption has reached 43% of print
Before quantifying the readership of digital magazines, we wanted to first understand what percent of the American adult population with Internet access reads print magazines. We also wanted to learn
We’ve been writing about the pricing of website and digital and print magazine subscriptions a lot lately, which has lead us to dig up some intriguing themes. Of course, the
“Imagine a world in which advertisers can seamlessly serve data-driven ads to the right user at the right time across channels and devices,” writes LiveRail Head of Client Services, Vijay
Publisher data is a broad term, but executives and sales staff know that they want more of it to develop long-term strategies for their content. But what happens when your
Digital magazines come in all shapes and sizes. We recommend web magazines, because they adapts to any device, even tablets. But a digital magazine app is most native to tablet
Time Inc. digital tries a paywall with Entertainment Weekly, while time spent with media seems to grow everywhere except in print
As time spent with media continues to rise, publishers don't
Digital publishing success comes with a multiplatform publishing approach.
Digital publishers who recognize this are finding numerous way to reach their audiences, building subscribers from social media, through email, and funneling
Online magazine publishers are focusing on tightening up their apps and archives in the evolving effort to bolster digital product. In the midst of all of this activity, Talking New
So is the underreporting of digital magazines sales the fault of publishers themselves, or should AAM's audit be modified to accommodate universal pricing and packaging?
We think it's time to accommodate.
What's up with mobile apps and the people who use them? Anyone publishing a digital magazine, or planning to publish one, must keep up with app user statistics. Recent mobile
Over the past few weeks, we've talked a lot about digital magazines and specifically online magazines - the online edition of a magazine in HTML format, which typically comes with
Do you sell an online magazine or a digital magazine? How about both? Many publishers do, and they don't even realize that both have totally different business models.
Online magazines are
Twenty years ago, ads were squares in newspapers and half or full pages in magazines. Selling advertising meant that you were selling a set of dimensions - the actual size
A print magazine looks, smells and feels good in your hands. When we asked digital natives why they might prefer paper over a digital magazine in a study a few
Up until ten years ago, the majority of magazine publishers did not publish online. Newspaper publishers were first to the game in the late 1990's but even as recently as
Another print magazine is launching after finding success in another medium. The Eat This, Not That! franchise, which originally started at Rodale as part of Men’s Health magazine, is becoming
As legacy publishers become digital publishers and the print magazine turns into the digital magazine, the aspect of fidelity comes into play. The human touch cannot be fully lost in
Vice has experienced success that many digital publishers dream about. The company went from being a print magazine to a major global media company. And as journalism.co.uk points out, the
Another print magazine has been shuttered in favor of digital. XXL, which was previously owned by Harris Publications, has been sold to Townsquare Media, reports Folio.
The hip hop magazine
Competition for those precious tablet advertising dollars – to replace declining print dollars – is heating up.
And here’s a secret: Niche publishers have a hidden advantage in competing for digital
Niche publisher launches groundbreaking website magazine, revealing future of digital magazines
NORTHBROOK, IL (August 13, 2014) – Prime Publishing, publisher of 17 free craft websites and 13 free cooking sites, has
I Like Crochet may be a glimpse of the future of magazine publishing
It’s a good thing consumers know their own minds, because the magazine industry might have completely failed its
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
The 63-year-old print magazine had slipped from weekly to biweekly to quasi-monthly, but will return to a weekly schedule as a digital property for the Johnson Publishing Company, Folio: reports.
Michela O’Connor Abrams, president & CEO at Dwell Media, is no stranger to innovation. Launched in 2000 as a modernist design publication, Dwell is built on innovation in architecture, including
Publishers are more evenly distributing resources among print, web, and mobile in order to attract more young readers, and one magazine in particular is providing a shining example.
It’s not who you might think
Now that AAM is allowing publishers to report their tablet magazine circulation separately, it’s become possible to track those who are leading the way in
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
Today we bring you another installment in our ongoing magazine pricing series, What Big Publishers Are Doing Wrong.
OK, it’s not really a series. But lately we’ve been taking up the
If you haven't heard of Medium, it's a small little niche blog where everybody is the author. The top authors tend to be C-level execs and start-up founders and the
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
“So what exactly does Mequoda Group do for a living?” people ask us.
I have been involved in Internet marketing and publishing since 1995, when I was running an agency called
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
Some folks like to talk about the decline of magazines. And yet, the Google search question “how to start a magazine company” is asked 1,680 times a year (and 1.1
According to Antoin Boulin at Folio, 80% of online content today is user-generated. BuzzFeed, Gawker and Forbes are noted as three top publishers of user-generated content (UGC). While BuzzFeed is
Meredith’s print magazine Allrecipes is only a month old but expansion is already in the game plan. Bill Mickey writes, “After just one month in print, Allrecipes, the print extension
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
The New York Times has a fun article on the ever expanding duties of publishing assistants. Yes, most of them still have their daily coffee runs but they're also being
Many big box retailers were open on Thanksgiving, giving the post-holiday shoppers somewhere to go before the mayhem of Black Friday.
Some publishers got involved in the sales too, offering digital
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
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