Ugly month for ad sales for biz mags in November
Virtually every major business magazine reported negative ad sales in November in terms of ad revenue, according to data posted on the Magazine Publishers of America web site. Only the Economist and Fast Company saw an increase in ad dollars in November compared to the same month in 2005. The British-based magazine was up 9.6 […]
Mixed results for business magazines in October
Business magazines reported results in terms of ad revenue and pages that were all over the place in October, with publications such as the Economist, Forbes and Fortune showing gains from the same month a year ago, but others reporting a drop, according to data posted on the Magazine Publishers of America web site. The […]
Biz magazines had bad ad sales in September
Most of the major business magazines saw a decrease in advertising revenue in September compared to the same month a year ago, according to statistics on the Magazine Publishers of America web site. Only Barron’s, The Economist, Fast Company and Inc. showed increases in ad revenue. Barron’s ad sales increased 17.7 percent to $5.9 million […]
A rare time for business magazines
Has there ever been a time where there was more upheaval and change in the business magazine business than what has occurred in the past four to six months? I can think of only one other period — the time between September 1929 and February 1930, when both BusinessWeek and Fortune launched to compete against […]
August is good ad sales month for business magazines
Business magazines posted a second straight strong month in terms of ad sales in August after reporting bad numbers in June, according to statistics on the Magazine Publishers of America web site. For August, all business magazines except for Fortune and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance showed an increase in sales from the same month in 2005. […]
July: A great month for business magazines
For those of you who have been paying attention, you’ll remember that Talking Biz News wrote about a month ago about how many of the business magazines — including BusinessWeek, Business 2.0 and Money — had incredibly an incredibly bad June in terms of ad sales, according to data from the Magazine Publishers of America. […]
Declines in ad revenue for Business 2.0, BusinessWeek and Money in June
Statistics posted on the Magazine Publishers of America web site show that among the business glossies, Business 2.0, BusinessWeek, Fast Company and Money all had an incredibly bad month in June, while the other biz magazines showed gains. And for the year, BusinessWeek has fallen behind Forbes in terms of ad dollars. Business 2.0 posted […]
Fast Company getting some help
MarketWatch media columnist Jon Friedman, continuing his weekly look at the business magazine industry, says that Fast Company magazine has overcome the loss of its top editor, John Byrne, who many feel left it abruptly last year to return to BusinessWeek. New editor Mark Vamos, who incidently worked with Byrne at BusinessWeek, has kept things […]
Fixing Fast Company magazine
Media Life Magazine writer Barton Biggs has an article about Fast Company magazine and what is being done to fix the once high-flying business publication. His focus is on an interview with the ad sales director, but he also has some interesting points about the magazine. The magazine hopes to return to 2001 ad sales […]
Reporting tips from Fast Company writer
Charles Fishman, a contributing editor to Fast Company magazine, spoke to one of my classes this afternoon. Charles is very animated when it comes to talking about journalism, and he shared some of his tips in finding sources when it came to writing his book The Wal-Mart Effect. Here are some things he found helpful: […]
