Min's B to B articles from December 2005

Min's B to B archives from December 2005

Steve Smith on New Media: Googlization Part III: Slipping Into the B2B Search Eco-System.
December 5, 2005... After a flurry of Google announcements in recent weeks, media watchers once again must ask, what exactly does this search engine want? The company partnered with Sun Microsystems in October and apparently will distribute and enhance a free,...

Going Global: ABM Laces Up Its Traveling Shoes, Schedules Road Shows to Brazil, India, and China.
December 5, 2005... Opponents of the global economy will be disappointed to learn of American Business Media's travel plans for 2006. But, with ABM members as diverse as International Data Group, Reed Business Information, McGraw Hill, and Hearst Business Media...

A note to our B2B Boxscore loyalists.
December 5, 2005... Today marks a new era in the monthly min's b2b Boxscores that have run continuously since this newsletter's founding in 1998. Effective with the October data that begins in this issue, all Boxscore data will be provided by IMS/The Auditor,...

b2b Boxscores (October): Fever Lifts a Bit, Healthcare Ekes Out Small $$$ Gain to Kick Off Fourth Quarter.
December 5, 2005... HEALTHCARE/PHARMACEUTICAL AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-October 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 Chain Drug Review (Racher Press...

Boxscores (October 2005): 1) It's An October to Remember in Rebounding Developer/Tech Fold.(Illustration)
December 5, 2005... In recent years, we haven't been accustomed to seeing up numbers across the board in our Developer/ Technical category. It used to be a staple of this once-booming sector, but we haven't seen much of that lately. Yet that's exactly what...

Boxscores (October 2005): 2) Gilbert & Sullivan's "Topsy-Turvy" Could Have Been Written for Government Mags.(Illustration)
December 5, 2005... After putting up some big-time plus numbers in September, many of the books in our Government sector could be excused for breaking into a resounding chorus of "Happy Days Are Here Again." But a cautionary note of "Not so fast" certainly...

Forrester Finds 48% in B2B Now Use Online Marketing; 24% Shift Budget from Elsewhere.
December 5, 2005... It should come as no surprise that industry-specific marketing opportunities of all types--be they magazines, trade shows, or Web sites--are deemed to be more effective than general business periodicals or Web sites. That's what a majority of...

B2B People on the Move.
December 5, 2005... Ziff Davis Media recently has brought a handful of former ZD executives back into the fold. Last week it continued the trend by naming Mike Vizard senior VP/editorial director of its Enterprise Group (eWEEK, Baseline, CIO Insight and...

BIN Spin: September Is for Remembering, With Across-the-Board Gains in Pages, Dollars.
December 5, 2005... The third quarter is important, and B2B aficionados have to be pleased by what they see here: across-the-board plus signs, including a +4.63% revenue gain at the three-quarter turn. b2b TRADE PUBLICATION AD PAGES/SPENDING...

Advanstar Pulls Plug on Pending Sale, Plans to Continue Its "Winning Strategy".
December 12, 2005... In a move that startled reporters who had written that a sale was all but done, Advanstar Communications owners DLJ Merchant Banking Partners late Friday pulled the plug on a pending company sale and instead chose to hold tight and move...

Boxscores (October 2005): Slicing & Dicing Finds Growth in Some Surprising Places.
December 12, 2005... There may be a new trend developing among min's b2b Boxscore leaders, and it isn't necessarily one that will warm the cockles of a publishing executive's heart. But as we prepared our new "Slicing & Dicing" feature for October...

b2b Boxscores (October): Banking/Finance Fights Fits-and-Starts Kind of Year.
December 12, 2005... With jumbo Christmas bonuses back in vogue on Wall Street, the banking business is going great guns. But that hasn't always been the case lately in the Banking/Finance B2B print sector of our Boxscores. While the category has basically done...

Steve Smith on New Media Boxscores (October): Housing and Business Render October Traffic Treat; Variety Prompts 'Shouts'.
December 12, 2005... Halloween month carried few scary moments for business publishers online as most titles grew both audience and page-view inventory in October, and more than a few spiked considerably. Housing, represented by several Hanley Wood titles both...

B2B Boxscores (October): Foodservice Shows Growth Where It Counts--On the Bottom Line.
December 12, 2005... In our first look at the important Foodservice Boxscore category with new data vendor IMS/The Auditor, we see a basic continuation of the trend that prevailed in data from TNS Media Intelligence: ad pages down into negative territory (not...

B2B People on the Move.
December 12, 2005... At VNU Business Media, Tony Uphoff (ex-CMP Media/Ziff Davis Media) on Jan. 1 becomes president of the Film & Performing Arts Group (The Hollywood Reporter/Back Stage/Amusement Business); he had been VP/general manager of the group's THR...

BIN Spin: Third-Quarter's Forward Momentum Carries Into the Fourth.
December 19, 2005... So many times in recent memory, the monthly Business Information Network reports have largely been a litany of one advertising trouble spot piled on another. Even when individual categories were looking up, there always seemed to be trouble...

b2b Boxscores (October): Nation's Biggest Builders See Nothing But Double-Digit $$$ Growth in the Cards.
December 19, 2005... Although housing prices seem to have done nothing but skyrocket for several years now--with many major coastal markets showing huge double-digit year-over-year gains for several years running--it's become a little more common to see what-if...

Boxscores (October 2005): Can Security Concerns, Deferred Corporate Spending Put the Spring Back in Computing's Step?
December 19, 2005... It's no secret that B2B media sectors like Computing that depend on brisk high-tech advertising spending aren't the publishing Goliaths they once were. But it need not be all doom and gloom, either. Although all the totals charted...

B2B Boxscores (October): Boom/Bust Telecom Sector Shows Jumbo Boom in Plus-Plus October.
December 19, 2005... When we switched Boxscore data vendors to IMS/The Auditor from TNS Media Intelligence recently, we expected that some variations--either in which magazines are tracked in a particular category or the way in which different variables are...

B2B Boxscores (October): Travel Totes Up Big-Time October Ad $$$ Tallies.
December 19, 2005... As we've already seen in other Boxscore categories since beginning with IMS/The Auditor as our exclusive data vendor, there can be some swift upward movement in certain categories like our Travel/Lodging/Hospitality group. Other examples...

B2B People on the Move.
December 19, 2005... Following the recent promotion of Steven Schmidt to president/CEO of VNU's marketing information group, John Lewis last Monday (December 12) was named president/CEO of the Dutch media conglomerate's ACNielsen U.S.A. media measurement unit....

B2B Stockwatch (Yearend Edition): M-H Top YTD Gainer at Christmas Break.
December 19, 2005... Based on Thursday's Market Close (12/15/05) Company Symbol Close 1 Week % Chg. YTD %Chg Dow Jones & Co. DJ 35.5 1.66% -12.91% Elsevier N.V. ENL 27.18 1.95% 4.48% JupiterMedia...