Ad gloom hangs over launches
22 Dec 2004
Publishers are putting millions into magazine launches, just as advertising stagnates. Colin Grimshaw reports.
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Anyone walking around central London at the moment on their way to lunch is in for a surprise. Pop out of an underground station and a nice young man or woman will thrust a copy of Standard Lite into your hands. The odd thing is that he or she is camped right in front of the Evening Standard stand where...
Publishers are putting millions into magazine launches, just as advertising stagnates. Colin Grimshaw reports.
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