A sector in transition, magazines are experimenting with digital platforms and deeper reader engagement. Mike Fletcher speaks to the leading magazine publishers about what is happening, just weeks after the latest ABC figures were posted.
29 Feb 2012
| by Staff
Ella Dolphin, group publishing director, young woman's group at Hearst Magazines, used to be pretty swift around two laps of an athletics track (800m), would love to do the school run via helicopter, and would never miss Cosmo's Ultimate Women of the Year Awards, even if she was sacked.
29 Feb 2012
| by Hayley Pinkerfield
This week, Bobi Carley, UK commercial director at Disneymedia+, attends the press launch for the Bristol version of 'The Lion King', gives up chocolate and discusses The Muppets with 40-year-old women.
Dave Sibley, Be Viacom's executive vice-president and managing director, talks about finding solutions for brands, the international media market and building a second screen environment.
James Murdoch, deputy chief operating officer of News Corporation, has resigned from as executive chairman role of the group's UK newspaper arm News International today (29 February).
WPP's 24/7 Real Media is entering the real time bidding (RTB) market, integrating it into its proprietary ad management technology Open AdStream for publishers and advertiser clients.
29 Feb 2012
| by Ed Owen
The 'Black Cab Sessions', a series of online films by Just So Films, will make the transition to terrestrial broadcast, when it launches on Channel 4 this week.
Hearst's era-defining monthly glossy, Cosmopolitan, is celebrating its 40th anniversary in the UK in typically feisty form with its April issue tomorrow (1 March).
ITV has reported pre-tax profits of £327m in 2011, up 14.3% year on year, as growth in its studio and online businesses sent revenues up 4% to £2.1bn.
Twitter is starting to insert its ad products into its mobile users' timelines for the first time.