Min's B to B articles from February 2007

Min's B to B archives from February 2007

'Pulitzers Of B2B' Finalists.
February 5, 2007... Neal Awards Announced, Sliced, And Diced Over 1,000 entrants have been whittled down to a handful by the Jesse H. Neal Awards judges and American Business Media, which announced the finalists this past week. The Neal Awards, which honor...

Casella Leaves.
February 5, 2007... Reed has announced the retirement of Jim Casella who served as CEO from 2002 to 2005 and as vice chairman from 2005 until this year. min's b2b will be speaking to Casella about his plans in a future issue. [Copyright 2006 Access...

Penton Born.
February 5, 2007... On February 1, Wasserstein & Co. and MidOcean Partners closed the deal to purchase Penton Media. The new company is now the second largest B2B media company in the nation. [Copyright 2006 Access Intelligence, LLC. All rights reserved.]

Whitestone Report.(mergers in publishing industry)
February 5, 2007... This past week, Whitestone Communications released its 2006 M&A retrospective, reporting on the startling increases that have been seen in the market v. 2005 and the previous five years. Big Numbers Tradeshow and trade magazine deal...

Machine Design Is Still King.
February 5, 2007... Summary Because the domestic engineering market is covered by magazines as diverse as Thomas's Managing Automation and Zweig White's CE News, it is difficult and not entirely useful to offer a summary of the industry as a whole. One...

Banner Banking Year Does Not Translate To Ad Pages.(banking journals)
February 5, 2007... Summary It was a year to remember for the domestic banking and finance industries. To look at one barometer, Goldman Sachs, one of the largest and most powerful investment banks in the world, made $9.5 billion in profits in 2006, this...

2007, A Year Of Great Developments.(business journals sales)
February 5, 2007... Summary Last year was a relatively slow year in the developers space. By our own calculations, the market shrank a bit (down 3.31% in ad pages). This year in the industry has been the calm before the storm. Both Microsoft and Apple have...

Re-Launch Review: The Year Of Working Seriously.
February 5, 2007... From the vantage point of a media critic spying out B2B and consumer brands online, 2006 was a most interesting year. Almost everyone re-launched their sites, reflecting the overall spirit of digital commitment (the "all-in" mood, if you...

QuickView.(Nielsen Business Media's Zach Dicker management techniques)
February 5, 2007... Zach Dicker, Vice President And Group Publisher, Nielsen Business Media Players with good memories may know how the exuberant, 75 year-old Zach Dicker--who will be the direct subordinate of Bob Krakoff, CEO of Nielsen Business Media and...

CRN Edges Sister InformationWeek.
February 5, 2007... Summary The computing magazines we follow faced a tough 2006, down 8.33% as a group. Like the developer magazines, they've been holding their breath for a 2007 that should be full of innovations, and, therefore, advertising. Ziff Davis'...

Avista Acquires New Platform.
February 12, 2007... PE Offshoot Of DLJ Ramps Up Avista Capital Partners announced this past week the acquisition of Phillips Investment Resources, a Rockville, MD-based independent investment content provider. PIR, which owned min from 1991-2000 and launched...

PE In The Spotlight At DeSilva+Phillips Summit.(Veronis Suhler Stevenson's John Suhler opinion about private equity funds)(Brief article)
February 12, 2007... In an excellent panel on private equity in the B2B media space, John Suhler, managing partner and co-founder of min's b2b parent Veronis Suhler Stevenson, made a passionate argument as to why PE involvement in the space is a positive thing....

TechTarget IPO.
February 12, 2007... On Wednesday, February 7, TechTarget filed its intention with the SEC to make an IPO. The Mass-based, tech-heavy media company (publishers of CIO Decisions) made $4.7 million in profit in 2005 and is on track to make over $5.87 million in...

PT Beats The Rest In Robust Pharm Market.
February 12, 2007... Summary The domestic pharmacy market had a good year in 2006, with trade publications we follow reaping the rewards: up 5.79% in ad pages. According to Drug Topics publisher Joe Laborsky, 2007 should be a big year because "there are a...

Developers Boxscore.
February 12, 2007... A computer glitch scrambled our developers boxscore of 2/5, but our story remains the same: big gains for MacTech and DM Review in December. We are grateful to attentive readers who brought the error to our attention. DEVELOPER/TECHNICAL...

What Is The Prognosis For Healthcare For 2007.
February 12, 2007... Summary Consolidation among vendors in 2006, specifically in the IT and consulting spaces, was an obstacle for publishers, especially of health-tech books and also of horizontal books. GE bought IDX and Allscripts bought A4 (see the...

Top Gainers In 2006.(business periodicals rankings)(Brief article)
February 12, 2007... Year End Slice and Dice--Top Percent Gain in 2006 Publication YTD 2006 YTD 2005 % diff 1 MACTECH 503.25 256.94 95.86 2 Long Term Care News 548.34 319.36 71.7 3 Independent...

BE Stays On Top in 2006, Despite Slumpy December.
February 12, 2007... Summary According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the growth in employment in the broadcast industry is going to be slower than the average of all 14 measured industries over the next ten years. No surprises here: the broadcast...

This Is Your Brand. This Is Your Brand On Google. Any Questions?
February 12, 2007... The problem of communicating a publishing brand in an age of radical media fragmentation used to be a mere exercise in futurism for me. I would tease media executives during interviews with the digital doomsday scenario. At some point, I...

Storming The Googleplex.
February 12, 2007... Google is invincible. After all, it dominates the search market, the biggest and fastest growing advertising segment on the Web. And it has nearly unlimited resources and seems to be going after every conceivable market-- intelligently and...

News & Notes.(Chromatography Techniques)(Brief article)
February 12, 2007... Advantage Launches Chromatography Announced last week, Advantage Business Media will be launching Chromatography Techniques. The magazine will run four times this year to a circulation of 60,000 subscribers made up from a pool of subs from...

Web 2.0 Gathers Marquee Names.
February 19, 2007... Google, Yahoo!, Amazon Make Appearances Jeff Bezos (founder of AMAZON.COM), Eric Schmidt (chairman of the executive committee and CEO of Google) and Jeff Weiner (SVP of Yahoo! Search) will all be speaking at this year's Web 2.0 Expo, a CMP...

Questex's Travel Agent Is Biggest And Most Challenged.(Industry overview)
February 19, 2007... Summary Six years ago, the travel/lodging/hospitality market was twice as large as it is today. And today, the market is still contracting, with the books we follow losing 4.46% in ad pages in 2006. The industry, as a whole, is besieged...

Crain's Automotive News Holding Steady.
February 19, 2007... Summary The domestic auto industry is...embattled, let's say...especially in 2006 (min's b2b of 12/4). But, let's not forget, that though the domestic original equipment manufacturers market (OEM--Ford, Chrysler and GM) is tanking, there...

Decline In Housing Starts Doesn't Deter Advertisers In '06.
February 19, 2007... Summary According to Warren Nesbitt, group publisher of Hanley Wood's Builder and Big Builder, among other titles, "by July of last year, it was clear that a significant market correction was taking place in the housing market." Not such...

Congratulations To min's 2007 Best Of The Web Award Finalists.
February 19, 2007... We began Best of the Web in 2002, when "dot.coms" were just starting to emerge from the 2000-2001 crash, because even in those worst of times, publishers were developing impressive online extensions. Five years later, the Web is an...

QuickView.(services of Ralph Monti, President of Special Interest Media)
February 19, 2007... Ralph Monti, President Of Special Interest Media Ralph Monti, President of Special Interest Media, has had a very strange career trajectory. He has, over the course of his years, played in multiple bands, written four books, run...

Cover Story.
February 19, 2007... At the beginning of the year, the min family sent a call over the wires-- a call for covers and their stories, specifically, the publishing staff's favorite story. We are gathering all of the best (self-selected) magazine covers and cover...

The Gentle Art Of Podcasting.
February 19, 2007... Podcasting from corporations and from B2B publishers like AdAge and Variety is becoming commonplace, even as it remains unclear how many people actually do use time-shifted audio and video. There are some early learnings, however, about how...

Casella Quick To Move On.
February 26, 2007... Ex-Reed CEO On To New 'Ventures' At the beginning of February, Reed Business Information announced the retirement of vice chairman Jim Casella (min's b2b of 2/5) who was moved into that position in late 2005 after a four-year stint as...

New CEO For NewBay.(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Very quietly, the newly-formed NewBay Media (min's b2b of 9/18) and Tony Keefe--the ex-CMP exec who was brought over in the deal to run the company--have parted ways. Keefe had been CEO. He was replaced by Steve Palm, former head of...

Schmidt Fills Gap At HW.(Hanley Wood)(Andreas Schmidt)
February 26, 2007... Andreas Schmidt, previously a vice president of marketing at AOL, will head up the electronic component of the newly reorganized Hanley Wood media business division. Mitch Rouda left Hanley Wood's e-media division very quietly in early...

Penton Books End Year As Biggest And Fastest In Telecom.
February 26, 2007... Summary With the emergence of VOIP and WiMAX as viable commercial technologies in 2006, telecommunications books were very busy, editorially. For some reason, this did not translate into ad pages, as the books we followed were down 5.51%...

Summit Update.(Bill Reilly )(Windpoint Partners)(Summit Business Media)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Bill Reilly and his private equity partners, Windpoint Partners, intend to grow Summit Business Media. And rapidly. "I'm optimistic about doubling sales and profits in two years," says Reilly. Through acquisition. He also has goals...

Slicing Up Food Service.
February 26, 2007... Summary All of the featured books in the food 2006 retrospective fall in the service/restaurants category, by far the sexiest of the three food channels we follow. Not so sexy are the overall numbers coming out of that category: down...

min's b2b First Team All Stars, 2006.
February 26, 2007... Each of these books ended 2006 as either the largest in its market category (top chart) or the fastest growing (bottom chart). The two books highlighted, Penton's Broadcast Engineering and EH Publishing's CE Pro, were the books whose...

Agriculture And Entertainment Warm The Dec. Chill.(Entrepreneur.com)(Campustechnology.com)(Agriculture.com)(Survey)
February 26, 2007... The best thing we can say about the December traffic from our sample of business information site is that it should make January look awfully good. Double-digit fall-offs struck many sites. Even the big business books like BusinessWeek...

Q4/Q1 M&A Action.
February 26, 2007... Though things have cooled a bit as of late--the weather and the B2B M&A market must be synchronized--year-end and January M&A action is worth recounting. The big deal of the period is the formation of Summit Business Media, Bill Reilly's new...