The Media Minute 12.19.2017

Metrics is one of those words… one of those soulless new media words… Modern.

As the year comes to a close, top editors weigh in on the magazine articles that moved them the most.

With ad fraud scandals and brand safety mishaps hitting the headlines in 2017, the past year has proved turbulent for advertisers, media agencies, and publishers.

Multiple publisher sources said Facebook no longer plans to pay publishers and other video makers to produce videos for the news feed.

The magazine industry collectives may not want us to count ad pages anymore (or even ask about them), but surely they’re still here.

Wouldn’t a luminous crystal ball be great? At least some cool super-powers would be nice.

Ho, ho, ho! If you are a publisher, you are probably due for a very happy New Year. For many of us, 2017 was the year we mastered the art of banging our heads against the wall. After all, any organization that merely touched publishing probably felt a pinch.

Readers have never enjoyed greater access to content and the media industry has never been more competitive.

Marshall R. Loeb, a business journalist who turned a floundering Money magazine into one of the nation’s most successful publications in the 1980s and then led a similar revival at Fortune, died on Saturday in Manhattan.

The Media Minute 12.12.2017

Events have become a go-to revenue source for publishers, but growing a profitable business is not without its challenges.

If you are a niche publisher contemplating expansion or sale, there are plenty of questions to make you crazy and keep you awake at night.

I think you’re seeing a move-back to print; a move-back to the appreciation that print is restorative; it’s actually information that you take in.

We are wrapping up the year by wrapping up the eighth issue of Digiday magazine, which is part of our premium membership program Digiday+.

Forrester predicts that 2018 will be the year that the display advertising bubble bursts, and that brands will significantly reduce their ad spend.

A new study from the Reuters Institute examines the strengths and weaknesses of seven globally ambitious news companies.

A new digital magazine that aims to take a more analytic, in-depth and participatory approach to investigative journalism in Luxembourg has raised more than €150,000 in crowdfunding ahead of its launch in March 2018.

Bob Love, editor-in-chief of America’s most widely circulated print magazine, on defying stereotypes and growing a 60-year-old brand.

Time national correspondent Charlotte Alter pointed out after Wednesday’s reveal of the most influential person.

The Media Minute 12.06.2017

Facebook’s ambitions to produce TV-like content has a problem: Creators still aren’t happy with the money they’re making off commercials and sponsorships Facebook sells.

Print sales might be on the rise, but that does not mean publishers are turning their backs on digital content altogether.

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect May 25, 2018.

Earlier this month, when Forrester released their 2018 predictions guide, one prediction in particular piqued marketers’ and advertisers’ interests.

Sometimes niche publishers think about technology as the one thing that will transform their business and boost revenues.

We like to make money. We think there is money in print and more print, and we like to make money and grow profits in digital.

With increased competition, and the growth in internet content and niche media, publications are rethinking their formats, revenue streams and tech tools for engaging readers.

Sunset, a magazine that began as a railroad journal in 1898 to encourage people to travel to the West Coast, was sold Thursday by Time Inc. to private equity firm Regent LP, the companies announced.

When we started working on the annual Ad Age Magazines of the Year package in the fall, there were six large magazine publishers: American Media Inc., Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, Rodale and Time Inc.