Min's B to B articles from August 2004

Min's B to B archives from August 2004

B2B Cost Management: Publishing Cost Analysis Suggests B2B's Sky May Not be Falling After All.(Illustration)
August 2, 2004... Like executives everywhere, B2B publishers are fond of complaining about how bad their business conditions are. But things may not be quite as bad as they seem, at least not according to a newly minted report from American Business Media on...

B2B Boxscores (May): Key Double-Digit Losses Drag Down Broadcast/Video Sector.
August 2, 2004... Television networks haven't quite resorted to paying people to watch their programs yet (at least not as far as we know), but that may not be far off in the neverending quest for viewers (and advertisers trying to reach them). But some of our...

B2B Trade Show Management: Going from Chaos to Control, IDG Unit Overhauled CRM Systems to Underscore ROI.(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... As the chart above demonstrates, managing every B2B line item cost helps managers keep their bottom lines from bottoming out. That's why it's important to identify and control trade show costs, especially for big exhibitors who run a myriad of...

B2B Boxscores (May): In Vertical/Special Interest Mags, Ad Spending Gains Despite Mild Ad-Page Drain.
August 2, 2004... Our Vertical/Special Interest magazine group had some mildly aberrational results in May that may look worse than they really are. Although CMR reports that May ad pages for our 15 titles were down a cumulative 1.63%, ad spending registered a...

B2B Research: Customer Spending Inches Up But Capital Spending Growth Flags.
August 2, 2004... Twelve of 14 key B2B product sectors report greater-than-expected secondquarter customer spending levels, according to the latest quarterly report from Rockville, MD-based ChangeWave Research. While the improvement in sales over the previous...

B2B M&A Monitor: Highline Fine-Tunes Casualty Insurance Portfolio With Griffin Buy.(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... It certainly won't go down as the biggest B2B deal of the year, but Highline Media last week executed the type of smaller transaction B2B companies need to cover all their bases in their chosen markets. In an effort to round out its property...

B2B People on the Move.(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... At Reed Business Information, Madelyn Hammond has been promoted to VP/strategic marketing for Variety as well as publisher of Vlife, a new semimonthly with news/lifestyle features for the entertainment industry. In the Variety portion of her...

B2B Stockwatch: Numbers Gains at MH, UBM Lift Their Stocks in a Mostly Drab B2B Week.
August 2, 2004... It's mid-year earnings report season, and both McGraw Hill and United Business Media showed positive bounce after positive grades. MH (+1.20% on the week/+8.60% year-to-date) reported a 14.7% gain in Q2 earnings (and a 24.1% operating margin,...

Coming August 16: B2B Group Publishers.(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... They call August the dog days of summer. It's actually more than this, however, because it's also time for our semiannual review of B2B group publishers. This four-part package, organized alphabetically (and even numerically, to accommodate...

B2B Media Companies' Benefits Trump Those of Other Employers.
August 9, 2004... B2B media companies are more likely to offer alternative-health and family-friendly employee benefits than the average employer, according to a comparison between the results of American Business Media's just-released 2004 Benefits Survey and...

B2B Sectors: The Big Swing.(Illustration)
August 9, 2004... Have you found yourself feeling dizzy lately? If so, your publication(s) might be within any one of six categories that showed gains in ad pages and dollars in May, followed by slides to the negative side in June. Ad revenues pivoted 30...

Primedia 2nd Q #1: New Partnership Brewing for Three Key Media Publications.(PRIMEDIA Inc. (New York, New York))(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... When Primedia's second quarter 2004 earnings release noted--without comment from Primedia executives--that American Demographics, Folio: and Circulation Management had been classified as "discontinued operations," rumors quickly circulated that...

Primedia 2nd Q #2: Business Information Unit Sees First Revenue Growth in 12 Quarters.(PRIMEDIA Inc. (New York, New York))(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... "After three difficult years of severe business-to-business contraction, Business Information Segment revenues are stabilizing," said Kelly Conlin, Primedia's president and CEO, referring to the company's B2B magazines and their offshoot...

B2B Boxscores (June).(Illustration)
August 9, 2004... HEALTHCARE-PHARMACEUTICAL AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-June) Ad Pages YTD Pages YTD PUBLICATIONS 2004 2003 1 Assisted Living Today 94.17 ...

CEBA Award Deadline Is Now Wednesday.
August 9, 2004... You've got a few more days to enter the 2004 Creative Excellence in Business Advertising (CEBA) Awards, honoring the best business-to-business print and online campaigns. American Business Media has extended the deadline from Friday, August...

B2B Boxscores (June): Print Products in the Tech Sector Take Big Hits in First Half.(Illustration)
August 9, 2004... Halfway through 2004, print advertising revenues for three publications on our Developers/Technical publications grouping are down by $1 million or more year-to-date. Leading in the loss of traditional advertising revenue is Penton Media's...

New Media Trend Watch: Is Blogging Mind Share from B2B.
August 9, 2004... Blogging is not just for self-absorbed twenty-somethings who chronicle their sexual and musical tastes online - although there is something to be said for that. Blogging may well be one of the most important tools businesses and business...

B2B People on the Move.(Advanstar Communications Inc.'s appointments)(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... Exactly one week after announcing Robert Krakoff's abrupt retirement as chairman on July 30, Advanstar Communications named James M. Alic to the chairman's post. Alic had been vice chairman of the company's board of directors since July 1996....

B2B Stockwatch.(Illustration)
August 9, 2004... Based on Thursday's Market Close (8/5/2004) Company Symbol Close 1 Week % Chg. Dow Jones & Co. DJ 41.5 -3.49% Elsevier N.V. ENL 25.12 -1.49% JupiterMedia Corp.1 JUPM ...

Breaking News: Upstart Competitor Takes Control of Folio: in Joint Venture with Primedia.(M10 magazine)
August 16, 2004... A pair of former Primedia executives who formed a media company to compete with Primedia's Folio: franchise will now be running Folio: and sister publication Circulation Management. On August 12, Red 7 Media, owner of M10, Event Marketer...

VNU Business Media To Peel Off Five Titles.(Brief Article)
August 16, 2004... A day after its Dutch parent VNU reported that the Food & Beverage Group was among the weakest in its "soft" trade publication unit, VNU Business Media announced its intention to divest two major food-service titles, Restaurant Business and...

In Brief.(Brief Article)
August 16, 2004... Looking out for the little guy, American Business Media has formed the Smaller Publishers' Advisory Committee for B2B publishing and media companies with total revenue under $25 million. Humphrey Tyler of National Trade Publications chairs the...

B2B Box Scores (June).(Illustration)
August 16, 2004... GOVERNMENT AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January- June) Ad Pages Ad Pages PUBLICATIONS YTD 2004 YTD 2003 1 American City & County 223.33 203.58 2 Federal Computer Week ...

Boxscores (June).(Illustration)
August 16, 2004... ELECTRONICS AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - June) Ad Pages Ad Pages PUBLICATIONS YTD 2004 YTD 2003 1 ECN 338.98 375.8 2 EDN Magazine ...

Exclusive Publisher-by-Publisher Analysis: Ad Revenues on the Upswing for Most Publishers in First Half.(Illustration)
August 16, 2004... Is B2B print advertising showing signs of a rebound in 2004, as companies like Primedia and VNU have claimed in their recent earnings reports? Here's one positive indicator: When the print titles tracked by CMR for min's b2b are grouped...

B2B People on the Move.(Brief Article)
August 16, 2004... At CMP Media, Michael Goodman replaces Tim Trickett, a 17-year veteran of CMP, as publisher of Dr. Dobb's Journal, the software developer title that suffered a decline in ad revenue of more than $1 million, to $4.3 million, in the first six...

B2B Stockwatch.(business to business)
August 16, 2004... JupiterMedia places among the week's strongest B2B companies for the third week in a row. Up 7% for the week, Jupiter's stock has gained 24% since the close of July 22nd. After two weeks among the weakest stocks following its year-end earnings...

Masterton on the Mend, Griffin Edits b2b.(Brief Article)
August 16, 2004... While John Masterton, editor of min's b2b, is recovering from a successful heart operation, Marie Griffin has been named Acting Editor. Masterton helped launch min's b2b in 1998 and has been its chief editor since last September. ...

News Update: 'Integrated' Folio: First Day and M10 Alert to Debut This Week.(Brief Article)
August 23, 2004... Readers of Folio: First Day, which had been published twice weekly when the Folio: group was part of Primedia, received notice on August 18th that the newsletter "will be taking a brief hiatus as we move to integrate Folio:First Day and M10...

B2B Boxscores (June): While Supermarket Pubs See Ads Rebound, Restaurant Field Keeps Sinking.(statistics)(Illustration)
August 23, 2004... VNU Business Media's recent announcement to put Restaurant Business on the block is no surprise in light of the publication's performance. In aggregate, the restaurant publications tracked by min's b2b (RB, Nation's Restaurant News, Restaurants...

Two McGraw Hill Titles Nominate Grand Winner of ABM's 'Do-Gooder' Awards.(Brief Article)
August 23, 2004... American Business Media's Fifth Annual Littleford Awards, created to encourage B2B editors to cover community service stories, were presented in New York City last Wednesday. The $3,000 Grand Littleford Award went to FlightSafety International,...

B2B Publishers Work Hard to End Up Where They Were in '03.(Illustration)
August 23, 2004... Spurts of excitement and dips of disappointment have characterized the year, and the top 10 B2B magazine categories, as a group, are ending up right back where they were one year ago. Even though ad-page tallies went up and down in individual...

B2B New Media Report (June Boxscores): As Summer Began, Visitors Came But Didn't Stay Long.(Brief Article)
August 23, 2004... Not everyone saw Web site activity dive in June, but most sites tracked in our Boxscores demonstrated how summer distractions breed curious browsing patterns. Flying in the face of that trend, though, Cygnus sites performed especially well,...

Touchstone Pictures Targets Firefighters Right in Their Online Firehouse.(Ladder 49)(Brief Article)
August 23, 2004... Cygnus's venerable Firehouse.com (-.54% PVs, +5.50% UVs) may not have burned up June, but we are expecting it to blaze in September. In a genuinely unique partnership between a business information provider and a major Hollywood release,...

Whither B2B Online Ad Dollars?(Business to Business)
August 23, 2004... Online advertising is screaming through the roof, but it is awfully hard to tell whether the business-to-business media are along for the ride. According to the latest estimates from eMarketer, we should see a 25.2% rise in ad revenues online...

Static Print Advertising Plagues Many Publishers in '04s First Half.
August 23, 2004... In the second installment of min's b2b's exclusive publisher-by-publisher analysis of the publications that appear in our weekly Boxscores (and only those publications), you might not think anything other than alphabetical order unites the...

Boxscores (June): High Hopes for the Stock Markets Lift Investment and Financial Titles.(Illustration)
August 23, 2004... When the year began, the financial community was optimistic the stock markets would come back in full steam in 2004, and min's b2b's collection of banking and financial publications were hot--gaining 18% in ad pages in the first half of '04 vs....

In Brief.
August 23, 2004... Cygnus Business Media is suspending publication of four regional monthlies that were published under the Graphics Network banner--Southern Graphics, Printing Journal, Print & Graphics and Printing Views--following the September editions. Print...

B2B Stockwatch.(business 2 business)(Illustration)
August 23, 2004... Based on Thursday's Market Close (8/19/2004) Company Symbol Close 1 Week % Chg. Dow Jones & Co. DJ 40.79 0.69% Elsevier N.V. ENL 25.25 2.06% JupiterMedia Corp.1 JUPM ...

Supermarket Publishing Veteran Acquires Grocery Headquarters.(McFadden Communications Group LLC)
August 30, 2004... Last Tuesday, McFadden Communications Group LLC closed on its acquisition of Grocery Headquarters, which was owned by Chicago-based Trend Publishing. Terms were not disclosed. With the purchase, Jeff Schaeffer, president and CEO of MacFadden,...

Profile: With CMO Launch, IDG's CXO Puts Marketers in the C-Suite.(business magazine)
August 30, 2004... Today, with a cover line of "Pressure, what pressure?" a new B2B magazine--a rare thing nowadays--is launching into a B2B advertising market that seems intractably flat. This daring startup, backed by IDG's CXO Media division, is titled CMO...

With Minimal Growth in a Hot Ad Market, B2B Magazines Lose Share.(Brief Article)
August 30, 2004... Here's the good news: Advertisers boosted their spending by 9% in the first half of 2004. Here's the bad news: They spent those extra dollars in almost every medium except business-to-business magazines. It's true that advertisers spent more in...

B2B Boxscores (June).(Illustration)
August 30, 2004... VERTICAL/SPECIAL INTEREST AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-June) Ad Pages Ad Pages PUBLICATIONS YTD 2004 YTD 2003 1 CRM Customer Relationship Mgt. 84.33 103.17 2...

37 Finalists Move to Next Round in Competition for Best B2B Advertising.(Brief Article)
August 30, 2004... To turn the advertising world's interest toward B2B, American Business Media timed the announcement of its Creative Excellence in Business Advertising (CEBA) Awards finalists during the American Association of Advertising Agencies' inaugural...

B2B Boxscores (June): In Slumping TV/Movie Category, a Few Players Saw Action.
August 30, 2004... Overall, the first half of 2004 hasn't been strong for publications covering the world of broadcast and cable television and movies. The group is down 5.3% in ad page count through June against last year's first half. The biggest percentage...

Group Publishers' First-Half Review (part 3): Even Big Names Reflect Soft B2B Market.(Illustration)
August 30, 2004... In the third and final installment of min's b2b's exclusive publisher-by-publisher analysis of the publications that appear in our weekly Boxscores, the eight companies that anchor the end of the alphabet also include some of the largest names...

B2B People on the Move.(appointments)(Brief Article)
August 30, 2004... At its quarterly meeting on August 17th, American Business Media elected three individuals to its board of directors: Bart Catalane, president and COO of Ziff Davis Media; Joseph Loggia, chairman and CEO of Advanstar; and Jeffrey Klein,...

B2B Stockwatch.(Illustration)
August 30, 2004... Based on Thursday's Market Close (8/26/2004) Company Symbol Close 1 Week % Chg. Dow Jones & Co. DJ 41.44 1.59% Elsevier N.V. ENL 25.72 1.86% JupiterMedia Corp.1 JUPM ...