Min's B to B articles from August 2007

Min's B to B archives from August 2007

How Now Dow?
August 6, 2007... DJ&Co. (WSJ, etc) Now Part of News Corp The media story that has overshadowed all media stories this year has reached a climax. Almost 40% of the Bancroft-controlled 67% of voting stock will be put towards approving Rupert Murdoch's...

Jason Young Succeeds Bob Callahan As CEO of ZD.
August 6, 2007... Almost immediately following the successful sale of the Ziff Davis Enterprise (as the new company will be known) to Insight Venture Partners, Bob Callahan is no longer CEO of Ziff Davis, announced by the company on 8/2. The press release...

Business 2.No?
August 6, 2007... According to a source that min's b2b spoke with this past week, the announcement of the closing of Business 2.0 might come this week. The embattled Time Inc. title is down just over 37% on the year--more than any other business magazine we...

Steady Steady Telephony.
August 6, 2007... Even considering a flat May (down .64% in ad pages), Penton's Telephony is up a solid 16.18% in ad pages on the year in a category--telco--that's down 6.83% in ad pages year-to-date. And, with recent gains, Telephony is now the top book we...

Semiconductor Battle Gets Bloody.
August 6, 2007... Last year, due to lack of market support, two out of the four books in the semiconductor market closed: Canon Communications' Micro Magazine and The Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Institute's Semiconductor Manufacturing Magazine both...

What's Going on at CMP's Sys Admin?
August 6, 2007... We're a bit confused at the already shuttered Sys Admin. We are wondering why a book that is closing is up 129.44% in ad pages in May. (70 of those pages are from an outsert for SANS Institute.) Are the publishers giving away pages to gouge...

Computing: Double-digit Downers; Corry Rising.
August 6, 2007... Of the 21 books we cover in our computing Boxscores, only four are not down in ad pages year-to-date. Of the remaining 17, every single one is down in double-digits, led by the 52.51% decrease at IDG's CSO; CMP's Network Computing is down...

Another Fierce Year: FierceMarkets Wants a Bite of Web.(Editorial)
August 6, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b, and min's Digital Media Report Poor FierceMarkets. They have the B2B digital model all bass-ackwards. Most trade pubs bring their print product online in a hub site that addresses...

Editorial Shakeup At B&C and MN.(Editorial)
August 13, 2007... Four Top Editors Get 'Reorganized' According to an article in Reed Business Information's Broadcasting & Cable that doubled as a statement from the company, "two publications in the Reed television group Monday [8/6] adopted a new...

Builder and PCWORLD.COM Take Top Azbee Honors.
August 13, 2007... After many years of waiting, Hanley Wood's Builder magazine is finally an ASBPE Magazine of the Year in the 80,000 and up circulation category (see Warren Nesbitt's comments on page 6). In the under 80,000 circulation category, e.Republic's...

The New Drug Approval Roller Coaster.
August 13, 2007... In April, the BIN numbers from ABM, powered by IMS/The Auditor, indicated that pharm was not only the second fastest growing ad category for B2B publishing (up 7.56% in ad pages year-to-date), but also gaining momentum (up 42.84% in ad pages...

Top Gainers, Year-to-Date.(Table)(Financial report)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... TOP TITLES (2007/2006) SORTED BY HIGHEST PERCENT YTD % GAIN (January - June 2007/2006) TITLE 2007 2006 % 1 Foodservice Director 257.74 173.19 48.82 2 Public Works ...

Home Care Books Pounded by Fed.
August 13, 2007... The recent Medicare/Medicaid reform act certainly gave a nice gift to the pharmaceutical industry in the form of the Part D drug plan, which inexplicably doesn't allow states to collectively bargain with big pharma for contracts. Other...

1105 Gov't Group Too Big?; GPN Reinvention.(1105 Government Information Group)
August 13, 2007... Over the past year, 1105 Media has put three top federal government IT books under the same roof. The result, as seen in ad pages, has not exactly been sterling, yet. The flagship, Federal Computer Week, is down 16.09% in ad pages,...

Builder Takes Home Top ASBPE Award; Ad Pages Down.
August 13, 2007... "We've always cared about content," says Warren Nesbitt, group publisher of the Builder group at Hanley Wood. "This award seemingly eluded us [Builder is among the most awarded pubs in B2B, historically]. I'm surprised it's taken so long,...

Wrap New New Media in an Old New Media Package.
August 13, 2007... Many B2B publishers look at emerging platforms like podcasting and mobile as "someday" formats that barely make revenue for the consumer side right now, let alone the narrower audience base of business titles. Paul Calento, SVP of strategic...

Ad Books Up in June.(advertising)(Table)(Financial report)
August 13, 2007... ADVERTISING & MARKETING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - June 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 1 To 1 Magazine (Peppers & Rogers)...

May Telco.
August 13, 2007... TELECOMMUNICATIONS AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January- May 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 Cabling Installation &...

Ziff Davis To Restructure Debt.
August 20, 2007... Company 'Cramming Down Lenders' "We completed the sale of the Enterprise business, which gave us a nice shot of cash," says Jason Young, CEO of Ziff Davis Media, busy during his second week on the job after replacing Bob Callahan, who is...

VSS Predicts Overall Growth for B2B Media.
August 20, 2007... Spending on B2B media rose 5% in 2006 to $23.582 billion, according to the Veronis Suhler Stevenson Communications Industry Forecast released in early August. VSS is predicting that B2B media spending will grow again in 2007 to $24.865...

Boomer Market Advisor Blooms in 2007.
August 20, 2007... Here are some numbers: As of July 2005, there are 78.2 million American baby boomers--defined by the US Census Bureau as people born between 1946 and 1964. Fewer than 20% of baby boomers have a formal financial plan, and 50% do not have...

Tough June for Telco.
August 20, 2007... We did not count CMP's Call Center in our June 2007 month-to-month numbers. The print magazine has folded and will no longer show up in our Boxscores after this month. If we consider it in our June monthly numbers, the category looks like...

NewBay Holding its Own Through June.
August 20, 2007... Of the three books in our broadcast Boxscore that are up in ad pages in 2007, two of them are NewBay books, Digital Video and TV Technology, which NewBay recently picked up by buying Imas Publishing (min's b2b of 7/9). NewBay also holds the...

Motor Age has Big June.(magazine publishing's revenue data)(Statistical table)
August 20, 2007... Advanstar's Motor Age is in the enviable position of being the dominant book in an attractive category over a very respectable but distant competitor. This year, however, Hearst's Motor has gotten the better of the bigger book, only posting...

Cam Bishop on Stagnito.(Ascend Media)
August 20, 2007... As we confirmed in the 6/18 issue of min's b2b, Ascend Media is shopping around its Stagnito food and beverage business. Though company sources have not commented for min's b2b on the sales process, we caught up with Cam Bishop, CEO of...

Sites to See.
August 20, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report I have been spending the summer trying to get on the phone with industry executives who are calling in from beaches and resorts around the world, and...

Mackler is Back.
August 27, 2007... Paul Mackler, Ken Fisher, and Alta Communications Team Up The last time we checked in with Paul Mackler, ex-CEO of Cygnus Business Media (and current president and CEO of HMP Communications), he was kayaking with his family following his...

Sys Admin's Circ Problems; Relief for Dev Books?(development)
August 27, 2007... In the year since Charlie Shively came on as an AP for CMP's Dr. Dobbs' Journal, the developer space has seen its ad pages melt away. The books didn't see a bump from Microsoft Vista, as many thought they would, and marketers in the space...

PC Mag Out-losing PC World.
August 27, 2007... Calling the race between Ziff Davis' PC Magazine and IDG's PC World "hot" this year would not necessarily be appropriate in an ice-cold computing Boxscore (down 22.24% in ad pages, year-to-date). But it is interesting. At Mag, we see the...

Getting it Done at Gulf Shipper.
August 27, 2007... Alli McEntyre is the new associate publisher at Commonwealth's Pacific Shipper as of last week. PS is down over 20% in ad pages year-to-date. Noreen Murray, group publisher of the shipping group at Commonwealth, is hoping that McEntyre can...

LFW Maintains Dominance over Photonics.
August 27, 2007... Pennwell's Laser Focus World is no longer up in the strong double digits in ad pages (15%+) as it was last time we looked at it (min's b2b of 4/30). But, through June, LFW is still up almost 6% in ad pages, and its main competition, Laurin...

360 Degree Coverage Propels Design News.
August 27, 2007... Boeing's 787 Dreamliner is the most successful commercial jet in history. To date, Boeing has taken 684 orders for the 787; and, at $130-180 million a pop (there are three versions), that's a lot of scratch. The 787 is 15% more fuel...

Biggest B2Bs in the First Half.
August 27, 2007... TOP TITLES SORTED BY HIGHEST YTD AD PAGES (January - June 2007/2006) TITLE 2007 2006 % 1 EE Times 1,388.21 1,476.31 -5.97 2 Automotive News 1,122.74 1,122.68 0.01 3 Nations...

Meetings & Conventions Has Huge Half.(Statistical table)
August 27, 2007... TRAVEL/LODGING/HOSPITALITY AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - June 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 Business Travel News...

June Box Scores: Summertime Blues Set In.
August 27, 2007... For business information sites, the summer is wilting season, and then we move on. It was a mixed bag this June, however, as a number of B2B destinations kept growing in the face of seasonal trends. ENTREPRENEUR.COM (+60.49% page views,...

Select B2B Transactions in July 2007.
August 27, 2007... Select B2B Media Transactions July 2007 Date : 7-Jul Buyer (Parent)/ Seller (Parent) : IDG Communications (International Data Group)/ ITWorld.com (Accela Communications) Property : Web site that helps information technology...