Wired, Bloomberg Businessweek on Adweek's Hot List
Wired and Bloomberg Businessweek were named Monday to Adweek’s list of the top 10 most influential and successful magazines of the year. For Wired, Adweek wrote, “Icon of the dot-com boom, Wired escaped the fate of the other tech magazines of the go-go ‘90s by embracing a broader editorial mission. Under the patronage of Condé […]
Wired issue downloads settle into 20k to 30k range
Peter Kafka of All Things Digital writes that the monthly downloads of issues of Wired magazine on the iPad has declined to 20,000 to 30,000, from its initial 100,000 downloads of the first issue. Kafka writes, “So. Twelve issues in, how’s the app performing on the business side? Conde won’t share many details, Wired publisher […]
Wired is finalist for magazine of the year
Wired was named Tuesday as a finalist for magazine of the year by the American Society of Magazine Editors. It is competing against National Geographic, The Atlantic, Backpacker and Foreign Policy. The award honors the best magazines published both in print and on digital platforms. Wired has been a finalist in the general excellence category […]
Bloomberg Businessweek ad pages up 49 percent in first quarter
Bloomberg Businessweek saw a 49 percent increase in advertising pages in the first three months of the year, according to data released Wednesday by the Publisher’s Information Bureau. Its ad revenue rose 65 percent to $46.2 million for the quarter, easily the best performance among the business magazines. Fast Company and Wired magazine also posted […]
Biz magazines named finalists for National Magazine Awards
Five business magazines were named finalists Tuesday for the annual National Magazine Awards, given out by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Fast Company is a finalist in the general excellence category for its July-August, September and November issues. Bloomberg Markets is a finalist in the lifestyle, finance and technology category. Fortune is a finalist […]
Wired’s app sales are down
Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson spoke at Columbia University on Thursday, and he noted that the magazine puts stuff on its covers to sell copies and that its iPad app sales have fallen since it was first introduced. Zeke Turner of Women’s Wear Daily writes, “Wired’s iPad app hasn’t been performing as well as […]
Wired tech blog to become movie or TV show
Jay Fernandez of The Hollywood Reporter writes that the popular GeekDad blog on the Wired magazine site has sold its rights for developing a TV show or movie around the name. Fernandez writes, “What began as a popular blog on the Wired website devoted to tech-savvy geek fathers has bloomed into a bestselling book, a […]
Biz magazine ad revenue up nearly 10 in 2010, outperforming industry
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 13 business magazines reported ad revenue of $1.17 billion in 2010, up 9.6 percent from the previous year, far outpacing the 3.1 percent increase for the entire magazine industry, according to data released Monday by the Publishers Information Bureau and analyzed by Talking Biz News. Ad pages also rose 7.2 […]
Wired magazine and its publisher
Nick Summers of the New York Observer writes about Wired magazine publisher Howard Mittman and the success that the tech-oriented business magazine has seen this year. Summers writes, “The 37-year-old is part of a new breed of less bombastic executives at the company after the humbling recessionary plummet in luxury advertising. As a publicist put […]
Wired loses creative director, iPad sales strong
John Koblin of Women’s Wear Daily has an update on Wired magazine’s strong iPad sales, and the loss of its creative director. Koblin writes, “Condé Nast ‘It’ boy Scott Dadich has resigned as creative director at Wired to focus full time on his other gig as the company’s executive director of digital-magazine development. Dadich got […]
