CR Blog |
August 5th, 2008 |
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Is this the best art direction in the world? DDB Johannesburg wins the Press Grand Prix at Cannes 08 with its campaign for Energizer In the April issue of CR, art director Paul Cohen lamented the state of art direction within advertising. According to Cohen, the profession is in decline, [...]
Book prices are much influenced by the cost of production. Magazines are different, the most successful magazines have their size limited by the quantity of advertising that they can attract at an appropriate rate. For this reason, very large fashion magazines can be priced quite low on the street. Book [...]
Jossip |
August 5th, 2008 |
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Playgirl magazine is folding, and will continue as a web-only operation. Because porn and the Internet is the most successful marriage ever. Though, that Playgirl's Wikipedia page has not yet been updated with this information can't be a good sign for a brand hoping to, uh, exist entirely online. Permalink [...]
Magpie |
August 5th, 2008 |
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Mygazines.com is a new website that allows users to read, archive and upload content from the latest magazines for everyone to read and share within the online mygazine community. The magazines are available as digital editions where you can flip pages and use the zoom function.According to a press release [...]
Michael Silver, a former veteran exec with the The Tribune Company for two decades, is taking on the new post of executive director of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium. The post is described as "advisory," though Silver will also be responsible for the management and oversight of the agreements between the [...]
BuzzMachine |
August 3rd, 2008 |
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I'm writing the section of my book about publishing and exploring new models. Would love, as always, to get your thoughts on what I'm writing: Rick Smolan has found another way to support his gorgeous and thus expensive collaborative photography books: sponsorship. He is best known for producing America 24/7, [...]
GigaOM |
August 3rd, 2008 |
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Keith Benjamin, a veteran Internet analyst and more recently a general partner at Levensohn Venture Partners, a San Francisco-based venture fund, passed away earlier this week of a subdural hematoma. He was hurt during his boxing training, when a blow led to a brain hemorrhage. A memorial service was held [...]
Jossip |
August 3rd, 2008 |
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The first public photos of Knox and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt have already been taken! And, despite our suggestion to nobody in particular that Brad and Angelina split their newborn twins into two separate photo shoots to really maximize profit potential, the babies were photographed together. But the babies will be split [...]
As the Q208 earnings season progresses, some quarterly 10-Qs filed by companies, and some nuggets of information in them: -- Gannett: Lists all its digital media acquisitions and investments done in the last year, most of them disclosed previously. One new thing: "The company also increased its investment in 4INFO [...]
Romenesko |
July 29th, 2008 |
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Portfolio.com Newsstand sales of Hearst's Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire and O: The Oprah Magazine all tumbled by double-digit percentages, reports Jeff Bercovici. Esquire gained 3.7%, while Conde Nast's Vanity Fair was up 5.8% in the latest circulation report.[...]
The in-flight magazine may be on its last legs. In yesterday's Guardian Media Section Conor Purcell speculates that environmental pressures and the cost of fuel will render the in-flight magazine obsolete. Emirates will soon drop its house magazine:According to Emirates' president Tim Clark, the decision to ban all onboard paper [...]
The Times |
July 28th, 2008 |
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Pearson, it has turned out, has been one of the better media performers of the year. Yes, the shares are down 17 per cent since January, but that is almost exactly in line with the all-share index and most media stocks have been battered by worries about Google and the [...]
CR Blog |
July 28th, 2008 |
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Glory to the great October! A Russian poster commemorating the 1917 Revolution, from Steven Heller's new book, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State In Iron Fists, an illustrated survey of totalitarian visual propaganda, Steven Heller offers an insight into the visual representations of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Communist [...]
Jossip |
July 28th, 2008 |
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Like BitTorrent, but for magazines, Mygazines.com is a dumping ground for your favorite printed materials. Full issues of popular titles all scanned for your digital perusing — and just like TiVo, you can skip the ads! (Just click "next page.") On our end, the site has given us a chance [...]
Corey Dade reports on the presidential campaign. CHICAGO - To those watching CNN's live broadcast today of Sen. Barack Obama's first public appearance since returning from overseas, the standing ovation he received may have been the normal, even expected reaction. Obama Enthusiasm for Sen. Obama is precisely what event organizers [...]
Wired |
July 27th, 2008 |
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Getting into World of Warcraft for the first time means hours of grinding: performing the same tasks over and over to level up a character. But far from being boring, grinding is one of the great unsung joys of gaming. Last week, I finally decided to start playing World of [...]
KY-Louisville, Fastline Publications, a leading advertising media company publishing over 25 magazines serving the farming and trucking industries, is seeking a qualified Sales Trainer to join our team. We have an e[...]
NY-New York City, The successful candidate is a client-side programmer who will code and maintain subscription offers and associated ecommerce vehicles throughout the Time Inc. network (Time, People, Entertainment Week[...]
NY-New York City, Opportunity for an experienced creative and strategic self-starter who can initiate sales development at a new division of Time Inc. called Health.com. This essential role will develop and manage crea[...]
VA-Norfolk/Hampton Roads, ALL ELIGIBLE RESPONDENTS MUST HAVE A MINIMUM ACTIVE SECRET CLEARANCE Founded in 1988, Windmill International, Inc. is proud to be a member-owned firm, fostering national security. A three-time Inc. 50[...]
