Wired magazine set to relaunch web site
Michael Arrington of the TechCrunch blog has a review of the new Wired magazine website, which is scheduled to be unveiled soon. Arrington wrote, “We expect at least part of the new design and functionality to be released later this week, and have obtained rather fuzzy screen shots of how it might look. “The first […]
Good month for BusinessWeek and Economist, not for Time pubs
Business glossies BusinessWeek and the Economist saw double-digit inccreases in advertising revenue and ad pages in February, according to data from the Magazine Publishers of America, while the business magazines from Time Inc. saw declines. BusinessWeek reported a 16.5 percent increase in ad revenue to $21.5 million and a 12 percent increase in ad pages […]
The best magazines ever
Good magazine has a list of the 51 best magazines ever in its latest issue, and a number of them are business-related glossies or with business overtones. Here are the particulars: 8. Wired Early years until Condé Nast buyout (1993–1998) Pages oozing with retina-burning inks and startling layouts broadcast a vision of the future that […]
Biz magazines ad sales sluggish in January
Advertising sales for business magazines in January continued to be sluggish, with many of the major publications falling, according to data from the Magazine Publishers of America. This comes off a 2006 in which the revenue for the 14 biz glossies was down slightly and pages were off as well, Ad sales for the Economist, […]
Wired is redesigned
Tech-related magazine Wired has undergone a redesign, according to a short item in the latest issue. The magazine stated, “In the front of the magazine, there’s a makeover for Start, Posts, and Play — not to mention this section, newly christened Chat (formerly Rants+Raves). We even moved to a thicker, less glossy paper, which shows […]
Business magazines end 2006 on a down note
Revenue from advertising for 14 business magazines fell slightly in both December and in 2006, according to data from the Magazine Publishers of America analyzed by Talking Biz News. The number of ad pages reported by those 14 business magazines fell by a larger decline than the ad revenue. Ad revenue for the 14 magazines […]
Biz mags among top 10 covers for 2006
Advertising Age’s Nat Ives picked a cover from the Economist and a cover from Wired as two of his top 10 magazine covers for the year. Here they are: No. 2 was The Economist. “It may have been the last time anyone laughed when they saw Kim Jong-il, but The Economist gets props for a […]
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. […]
Former Wired editor dies in marathon
William Goggins, a former top editor at Wired magazine, died Sunday while running the San Francisco Marathon, according to a story in the San Francisco Chronicle. Reporter Simone Sebastian wrote, “Goggins was a former deputy editor of Wired magazine. Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson said Goggins’ ‘mark on Wired was profound.’ “‘Think of him as being […]
Conde Nast acquires Wired News operation from Lycos
Conde Nast acquired the Wired News operation from Lycos for $25 million, combining once again the Internet operations of Wired with the magazine. A Wired News story stated, “Lycos acquired Wired News as part of its June 1999 acquisition of Wired Digital in a stock transaction valued at about $83 million at the time. Since […]
