Min's B to B articles from April 2007

Min's B to B archives from April 2007

VSS Buys Advanstar: $1.142 Billion.
April 2, 2007... DLJ Exits, Advanstar Goes Private In a private transaction, PE firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (parent of min's b2b) and co-sponsors Citigroup Private Equity and New York Life Capital Partners have agreed to acquire Advanstar...

InfoWorld Moves to Cyberspace.(InfoWorld Media Group Inc.)
April 2, 2007... After 27 Years, Pub Will be Printed No More The IDG weekly InfoWorld will print and mail its last issue to its 180,000 subscribers on April 2 and will move online. Though weighing in at over 1,250 ad pages in 2006 (min's b2b of 3/19),...

Group Publishers' Report: Penton.
April 2, 2007... Since the official completion of the merger between Penton and Prism (min's b2b of 1/29), John French and his management team have been busy putting the companies together--finding synergies (min's b2b of 3/12), working through cultural...

Group Publishers' Report: Reed Business Information.
April 2, 2007... By our accounting, Reed Business Information is, by a sizable margin, the largest B2B media company in the country. With 60,869.2 ad pages in 2006, Reed bested its nearest competitor, the new Penton, by nearly 16,000 pages. And this gap is...

Advanstar, IDG, and McGraw Lead Way at Neals.
April 2, 2007... The best awards shows should be both a traditional celebration of industry excellence and a contest in which the winners are able to reap the rewards of that excellence: more and better business. We will be watching the winners of this year's...

Fairchild Fortifies Fashion Franchises.
April 2, 2007... On Monday, March 26, Fairchild launched FASHIONCAREERS.COM, a Web site for employers and job seekers in the fashion world, the industry that Fairchild dominates through the print publications: WWD (and its brand extensions), W, DNR, and...

Microwaves & RF Cooking with Gas in January.
April 2, 2007... ELECTRONICS AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 Circuit Cellar (Circuit Cellar) ...

"Best SISO Ever," Says Don Pazour, Chairman.(Society of Independent Show Organizers)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Announced this week at Society of Independent Show Organizers in the CEIR Index Report, the exhibition industry grew by 4.8% in 2006, just down a bit against the 5.8% growth the industry saw in 2005 (the full report can be purchased at...

Builder and Big Builder See Big Drops in 2007.(Statistical table)(Financial report)
April 2, 2007... BUILDING/CONSTRUCTION AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages PUBLICATIONS YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 Big Builder (Hanley Wood) ...

Will B2B Ever Get Mobilized?
April 2, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report As I interview digital media executives in the B2B space for min's upcoming research report, "The State of Digital Media," I get pretty much the same...

Bob Krakoff is Remembered.(Obituary)
April 2, 2007... Bob Krakoff, most recently CEO of Nielsen Business Media, was very well- known throughout the industry as a top manager at Cahners/Reed, Advanstar, and then VNU/Nielsen (please visit BTOBONLINE.COM for a more thorough discussion of Bob...

Advanstar Fetches High Multiple.
April 9, 2007... Blockbuster Comparison: Higher Than Penton, Lower Than VNU On Monday, 4/2, Advanstar released its Q4 and full year 2006 results. With an adjusted EBITDA in 2006 of $94,026,000, last week's purchase of the company by Veronis Suhler...

Wrapping Up Group Publishers' Coverage: Questex.
April 9, 2007... Questex's year-end ad page numbers for 2005 were not looking up post the $185 million acquisition from Advanstar that formed the company in May. According to min's b2b of 3/27/06, the company's ad page numbers as a whole were down 6.51%....

Group Publishers' Coverage: Summit Business Media.
April 9, 2007... In 1989, when Kohlberg Kravis Roberts tapped Macmillan helmer Bill Reilly--who in turn tapped colleagues Charlie McCurdy, then CFO, and Beverly Chell, then general counsel--to run their new rollup, Primedia (then known as K- III...

TV On The Internet: Scratching The 'ITch'.
April 9, 2007... Increasingly, B2B media players are turning into video producers. Three good examples are: the endemic STUDIODAILY.COM (a property of Access Intelligence, parent of min's b2b), which was featured in the 5/29/06 issue for its innovative use...

Digital 'Gurus' Taking Flight.(Toni Nevitt leaves VNU/Nielsen)
April 9, 2007... After seven years with VNU/Nielsen, Toni Nevitt, who had been president of e-media and information marketing, left the company at the end of March. "It was my decision," says Nevitt, who had been closely aligned with ex- CEO, current...

Food Arts Turns In Masterpiece Jan/Feb.
April 9, 2007... FOOD AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - February 2007/2006) FOOD: SERVICE/RESTAURANTS Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (publisher) YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 Chain...

Government Slumping Through First Two Months Of '07.(Statistical table)
April 9, 2007... GOVERNMENT AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-February 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 American City & County (Penton) ...

January's Big Bounce...Back.(Web site users)(Statistical table)
April 9, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report You had to work hard not to achieve double-digit gains in the post- holiday period. After a rough December that saw many sites lose considerable...

Q1 M&A: Data Down, B2B Magazines Up.
April 9, 2007... Compared with Q1 2006, Q1 2007 B2B magazine deal value was up 366.9%, as tracked by mediabank, The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc., while both database information services deals and exhibitions and conferences deals were down in value 33.5%...

Conde Nast Portfolio Launches Today.(Conde Nast Publications Inc.)
April 16, 2007... By Steve Cohn, EIC of min Much anticipated launch of CNP is getting the expected full "exclusive" splash in today's (April 16) New York Times (the cover and all the editorial ingredients are there). With the one-year-plus expectations...

min Day.
April 16, 2007... The hottest subject for editors and publishers these days is implementing a traditional magazine brand in a digital world. And how far we as an industry have come. But we have much farther to go. This Thursday (4/19), at the Grand Hyatt...

Jan B2B Ad Pages Down 3.1%.
April 16, 2007... Ad pages for 2006 ended relatively flat (up .68%). January 2007, B2B publishers didn't get as good of a start out of the gate, with pages being down 3.1%, according to the BIN report, provided by American Business Media and powered by...

Prognosis Positive: Advanstar's Pharm Books Look Healthy.
April 16, 2007... The biggest of the three Advanstar pubs that we follow, Drug Topics, is already up 12.99% in ad pages through the first two months of the year. DT ended last year basically flat (down .71%). "A lot of our early success this year is the...

HME News Gets Some Help From Washington.
April 16, 2007... In a category (health) that's down 9.34% in ad pages through the first two months, HME News being up 35.32% in ad pages over that same period is damn impressive. The reason? Medicare has just announced the ten metro areas that they are going...

Sourcemedia: A Closer Look.
April 16, 2007... The big story in the banking/finance industry this year (and perhaps for the next 20, depending on medical and pharmaceutical advances) is the massive transfer of wealth that will occur between baby boomers and the recipients of their...

MD v. DN: The Battle Rages On.(Machine Design)(Design News)(Statistical table)
April 16, 2007... In the engineering space, the battle between the two large horizontal books, Reed's Design News, and Penton's Machine Design, continues, as Reed's slightly smaller book is making gains in 2007. Numbers--Market Share Between the two...

Making Mobile Safe for Advertising.
April 16, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report While mobile media is still on the periphery of immediate plans for B2B publishers, it may be getting more traction with business users and consumers...

Computerworld and Network World Downsize.(Brief article)
April 16, 2007... Last week's change of IDG's long-running tabloids, Computerworld and Network World, from tabloid size to standard size brought many industry insiders to speculate on IDG's apparent retreat from print. Referenced was the shuttering of the...

More Moves At Cygnus.
April 16, 2007... Mike Martin, previously group vice president in the Cygnus publishing division, will now be president of the publishing division. He will report directly to Carr Davis and Tony O'Brien, co-CEOs, as he did before the promotion. Now, though,...

Year-to-date Ad Pages Sliced and Diced.(periodical publishing)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
April 16, 2007... Top B2B Titles Year-to-date (ranked by highest % gain, minimum 30 ad pages in 2006) PUBLISHER 2007 2006 % 1 Sys Admin 138.5 51.67 168.07 2 Convenience Store...

$4.174 Billion In Revenue.(The Nielsen Co. (Florence, Kentucky))(Brief article)
April 23, 2007... Nielsen Company Reports Full Year 2006 Results Though The Nielsen Company reported an impressive $4 billion+ in revenues, operating income fell from $373 million in 2005 to $212 million in 2006, for a per cent decrease of 43.16%. The...

Sold Out min Day Was Not to be Missed.
April 23, 2007... If you couldn't make it to the standing room only min Day, you may have missed a valuable opportunity to stock up on digital know-how, or, at the very least, to take a wide survey of today's digital landscape. Panels were led by digital...

The New MINONLINE.COM.(Editorial)
April 23, 2007... Many of you may have noticed that about a week ago, we relaunched our Web site, MINONLINE.COM. As editor of MINONLINE.COM, I would personally like to invite you to check out our new do. In addition to articles from min and min's b2b...

min's b2b: Top Books in 2007.
April 23, 2007... Congratulations to CMP's EE Times, which tops our charts for ad pages in the early going of 2007 with almost 500 pages despite a 2.2% decrease from 2006. With a little push, EE Times could beat 3,000 ad pages in 2007 at this rate. Kudos also...

Call Center v. CIS: Diverging Paths.
April 23, 2007... The two main books that cover the call center or customer interaction industry--CMP's Call Center and TMC's Customer Interaction Solution--are going in opposite directions. But, both claim to be making gobs of money this year: one, the...

Aftermarket Auto Industry Robust; Auto Industry, Not So.
April 23, 2007... In 2006, SEMA News, the magazine associated with the massive SEMA aftermarket auto parts show, led all books in our automotive category in terms of ad page percentage gain at 17.65, with a real page gain of 118.68. In 2007, the story is no...

Hotels Hot in Jan/Feb.
April 23, 2007... The booming commercial real estate market isn't just having an effect on the building books (min's b2b of 3/12 and 3/19). The hotel market is heating up as a result, too. Here are some numbers for you: Prices for hotels are reaching the...

What's Going On In Transport?!
April 23, 2007... Every book we follow is down (most in double digits) year-to-date, except Commonwealth's Gulf Shipper (up 12%) and Keller's Global Logistics (up 8.1%). Here are three possible reasons: 1. There are unsubstantiated rumors circulating that...

min DAY CONGRATULATIONS!
April 23, 2007... Thursday's (April 19) celebration of min Day--which further brought magazines' print and digital worlds together in a series of panel discussions and displays (highlights are on MINONLINE.COM)--was a bonafide sellout with 500- plus attendees....

A Year In Box Scores: 2006's Niche Side Story.
April 23, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report As we prepped for our annual min Day Summit last week, it was an appropriate time to assess the performance of business information sites over the past...

Business/Hybrid Books: Welcome to min's b2b.
April 23, 2007... With the launch of Conde Nast Portfolio this week, we at min's b2b thought it about high time that we started covering the broad, horizontal business magazines. After all, much of their advertising is B2B. In fact, 53 out of the 95...

IAB, Nielsen, comScore Dustup.
April 30, 2007... Shots Fired In Both Directions Just a day after Steve Fredericks of TNS Media Intelligence made the following pronouncement at min Day, IAB wrote an open letter to comScore and Nielsen//Net-Ratings calling for standardization of Net...

Contractors Clamor For Equipment Despite Housing Slump.
April 30, 2007... The gargantuan Bauma construction equipment tradeshow that occurred in Munich last week is one of the largest in the world, attracting around 500,000 attendees annually. Several of those attendees were publishers of the construction...

Broadcast Boxscore Full Of Double-Digit Downers.
April 30, 2007... Ad pages in this sector are down 13.03% year-to-date. The multimedia production industry as a whole is going through some changes, a marked one being extreme advertiser consolidation coupled with the larger advertisers then abandoning...

LFW Is One Bright Spot In A Down Category.
April 30, 2007... Compared to other ad page categories that we break down this week, electronics isn't doing so badly--only down 2.76% in ad pages as a whole. Many books are up and down double digits. It will remain to be seen whether things level off as the...

ZD Enterprise And Consumer/SMB Books Down In '07.
April 30, 2007... All three books in the Ziff Davis enterprise group are down: Baseline a mere 8.21%, E Week 16.36%, and CIO Insight 23.84%. As a whole, the group represented 436.74 pages through the first two months of 2006; in 2007, the group only...

Select Books Shine in Flat/Down Developer Boxscore.
April 30, 2007... Game Developer Since Simon Carless began his transition from editor of CMP's Game Developer and GAMASUTRA.COM to editor and publisher of both, numbers have been up. Already, early this year, GD is up 102.48% in ad pages. "I think I...

min's b2b Welcomes Back Advertising & Marketing.
April 30, 2007... ADVERTISING & MARKETING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-February 2007/2006) Title (Publisher) Ad Pages YTD 2007 Ad Pages YTD 2006 1 1 To 1 Magazine (Peppers & Rogers) 12 14 2 Advertising...

Eric Mika Appointed to Boost THR.(The Hollywood Reporter)(Brief article)
April 30, 2007... Eric Mika, previously senior vice president and managing director of Nielsen Business Media's Film and Performing Arts Group, has been named SVP/publishing director of The Hollywood Reporter. He will still report to John Kilcullen, publisher...

Sold Out min Day Elevates Digital Discourse.
April 30, 2007... Check out MINONLINE.COM (min Digital and Business Casual) for session notes, audio highlights, lists of winners of Digital Hall of Fame/Best of the Web/min's Sweet 16, and overall thoughts on min Day. Thanks to all of our attendees and...

A YouTube For Webcasts? Insight24 Tries.
April 30, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report We don't expect On24's new B2B rich media network to spawn the kind of Web phenomenon that was "Evolution of Dance" (47 million viewings and counting)...

Affinity Media International To Build Platform.(Brief article)
April 30, 2007... Affinity Media, a newly formed special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC), has contracted Whitestone Communications, a media investment bank and consultancy, to help it identify and consummate transactions in the media space. SPACs...