Min's B to B articles from January 2003

Min's B to B archives from January 2003

B2B M&A Deals/$$$ End 2002 on Both Good and Bad Notes...(Illustration)
January 6, 2003... B2B media M&A activity proved mixed in 2002, thanks to an ad recession, Wall Street weakness/corruption and the events of Sept. 11. B2B deal dollar values increased to $16.6B from $13.6B in 2001 (+22.1%), while M&A activity declined 14.6 (228...

... As Pundits Predict Future Looks Bright forB2B M&A in 2003.(Reed Phillips)
January 6, 2003... Elsewhere, media investment bank DeSilva & Phillips managing partner Reed Phillips says he is seeing some light at the end of the M&A tunnel in 2003. "We think strategic buyers are starting to look again," he tells us. "Hopefully they'll also...

What a Difference a Year Makes: Klein's 101 Turnaround Banks on Gov't Security $$$.(101communications)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... With the honeymoon over for 101communications president/CEO Jeff Klein (ex-Times Mirror), who replaced co-founder and now chairman of the board Curt Hessler nearly a year ago (min's b2b, 1/28/02), the New Year brings new challenges for the...

Box Scores: Developer Sector Deficits Deepen In Negative November.
January 6, 2003... Adscope's developer sector remained reeling in November as ad pages (-34.00%) and ad spending (-30.56%) suffered double-digit drops. Only top title not to tank was CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise (+54.54% ad pages/+37.14% ad revenues) while...

Vert/Special Interest Markets Head North in November; Reseller Right Behind.(ad spending)
January 6, 2003... Ad pages (-0.55%) and ad spending (+11.02%) were on the road to recovery for vertical/special interest titles tracked by Adscope in November. Winners outpaced losers by a 3-2 margin with tiny titles making up for lost ad page/revenue ground at...

2003-2004 Calendar of B2B Media Events.(Calendar)
January 6, 2003... January 17, 2003 "Risk Management in the Publishing Industry Union League Club/New York, NY February 6, 2003 BPA/American Business Media University Sheraton Gateway Hotel/Los Angeles, CA February 21, 2003 ABM/NYU...

Eye on New Media: Hanley-Wood and IDG Clean Up at min's Best of the Web Awards.
January 6, 2003... by Steve Smith The first annual min's Best of the Web Awards not only demonstrated the value of experience, but they also revealed the many niches of B2B publishing where innovative business and content strategies continue online despite...

Stock Watch: B2B Media Rings In New Year on High Note (Sans Penton).
January 6, 2003... B2B media started 2003 with a bang as all but Penton Media (-1.20% FTW, $0.79/+16.20% YTD) had a happy start to the New Year. (Editor's Caveat: all YTD % are as of two weeks ago, 12/26/02.) Leaders of the pack were Juptermedia (+8.23% FTW,...

DeSilva & Phillips Report: B2B M&A Deals/Valuations Sink in Tough 2002.
January 13, 2003... As year-end 2002 reports tracking B2B media roll in, the common theme among many has been the lackluster ad market and steep drop-off in M&A activity. So when media investment bankers DeSilva & Phillips released their report last week, it was...

... With War Waging B2B Recovery May Have to Wait for Second-Half 2003.(finance forecasts)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... Looking ahead to 2003, the D&P report remains optimistic that recovery will come "remarkably quickly" if war with Iraq is resolved swiftly and new Republican-sponsored tax relief favoring business investment is enacted. "If the question about...

min's b2b Reader Survey Asks Top B2B Brass:.(Business to business)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... "What will 2003 bring for B2B Media?" Cam Bishop President/CEO Ascend Media "Overall the year will be flat to 2002 revenue. The first quarter will be down from last year and the next three quarters will improve enough to...

Box Scores: Aero/Defense Titles Tank in November As Gov't Sector Ad $$$ Soar (+23%).
January 13, 2003... November ad page (-12.49%) and ad spending (-6.89%) negatives grounded Adscope's aerospace/defense sector. Nonetheless, Aerospace Engineering (+82.60% ad pages/+95.29% ad revenues) took-off while McGraw-Hill's Aviation Week (-13.55%/-12.35%)...

Electronic Titles Tally More Negatives in November.
January 13, 2003... Adscope's electronic sector was on the fritz in November as ad pages (-17.89%) and ad spending (-14.93%) short-circuited. Top moneymakers such as CMP Media's EE Times (-14.92% ad pages/-14.68% ad revenues) and Penton Media's Electronic Design...

Eye on New Media.
January 13, 2003... by Steve Smith November Box Scores: 'Tis the Season for Falling Traffic November marked the beginning of a two-month vacation for B2B Web servers as surfers flocked to sites with less business and more turkey recipes. In addition to...

BPA Tweaks DigiMag Auditing Rules.
January 13, 2003... Call it a bug fix, or maybe a minor upgrade, or Version 1.1, but the Business of Performing Audits Int'l (BPA) digital task force approved two revisions to its existing rules about including digital versions of print products in circulation...

Stock Watch: Bullish Investors Lift B2B Media to Barely Win for the Week.
January 13, 2003... While Wall Street kept running with the bulls in the New Year, B2B media stocks eked out a winning week finishing with seven up and five down. Primedia (+28.80% FTW, $2.91/+41.30% YTD) continued to rebound taking top spot, followed closely by...

CMP Media Brass Add Another Network to BTG Group...(Business Technology Group: Network Magazine joins Network Computing)(Brief Article)
January 20, 2003... It looks as if CMP Media COO Steve Weitzner is still getting his house in order. Evidence is the recent removal of Network Magazine from Regina Ridley's Specialized Technologies Group to join sister title (and part time rival) Network Computing...

... As Network Computing Gets Makeover Thanks to Ad Page/$$$ Lift.(Brief Article)
January 20, 2003... More importantly, Nelson and Johnson point to the recovery in ad pages and ad spending both books have seen in recent months. (See this week's min's b2b communications/networking box scores below). Nelson tells us that Q4 2002 "rocked" for NC...

A Slimmed-Down ZD Emerges from Financial Fight Bruised But Better Off...(Ziff Davis Media)(Brief Article)
January 20, 2003... Ziff Davis Media may no longer be the high-tech publishing powerhouse it was just a few years ago; however, having emerged from swallowing a difficult debt restructuring nearly six-months ago (min's b2b, 8/12/02), ZD executive VP Stephen Moylan...

... As CIO Insight Survey Forecasts IT Spending to be Flat in 2003 (-0.2%).(information technology)(Brief Article)
January 20, 2003... Meanwhile, two new ZD books, Baseline and CIO Insight, have been bright spots since launching 12 to18 months ago. According to Moylan, CIOI has gone from roughly 100 ad pages in 2001 to over 500 ad pages last year, while garnering a 30% market...

People to Watch: Tradeshow Week's Hughes Does Triple Duty.(Michael Hughes)(Brief Article)
January 20, 2003... Nobody knows the ins and outs of the B2B trade show, conference and expo industry better than Tradeshow Week's director of custom research/associate publisher Michael Hughes. Covering the industry since he moved to Los Angeles in 1995 to become...

Box Scores: Telecom Nixes Communication/Networking Sector in November.
January 20, 2003... The troubled telecom industry continued to plague Adscope's communication/networking titles in November (-25.11% ad pages/-6.92% ad revenues). Phone books such as Wireless Week (-30.33%/-28.97%) and Primedia's Telephony (-36.88%/-32.17%)...

Eye on New Media.(prices of content providers)(Industry Overview)
January 20, 2003... by Steve Smith Selling Content by the Ounce As a recent report by the Online Publishers Association demonstrates, pricing models for online content, both B2B and B2C, are very much in flux. The OPA/comScore survey of publishers found...

Crain Says So Long Electronic Media, Hello Television Week...(Crain Communications changes name of publication)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... After 20 years, Crain Communications' Electronic Media is undergoing a name change. Beginning with the March 3 issue, EM--which bears resemblance to Crain flagship Ad Age--will become Television Week (circ 35K). According to EM...

... EM Ad Pages/Editorial Accolades Add Up, New Newsletter Debuts Too.(Electronic Media)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... As for business, Ross tells us that last year's ad pages were "way up" over 2001. "With advertising for broadcast media starting to come back, things should start to trickle down to us soon," he claims. In addition to the name change, Ross...

Cygnus Business Media's Security Dealer Still Ticking After 25 Years.(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... Not all B2B media firms are closing the books on long-in-the-tooth titles during the current ad recession. Some are celebrating ageless beauty, as demonstrated by Cygnus Business Media's 25th anniversary edition of Security Dealer (circ. 25K)....

Box Scores: CC/Info Books Bleak in November; Computers Crash Too (-17% $$$).(corporate computing, information systems magazines)(Illustration)
January 27, 2003... Adscope's corporate computing/info systems sectors continued to climb out of double-digit ad page (-4.49%) deficits in November, even as ad spending (-14.06%) remained south. Meanwhile, top titles proved mixed for the month as Ziff Davis...

B2B People: Movers & Shakers...(various personnel changes)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... The Bureau of Performing Audits Int'l (BPA) last week announced the hire of Karlene Lukovitz (ex-Primedia) as VP Communications... PC World's VP/editorial director Kevin McKean was recently promoted to CEO/editorial director of International...

Eye on New Media.(Web publishers develop innovative platforms and business models)
January 27, 2003... By Steve Smith Best of the Web Also-Rans: Email Comes of Age There are a few areas of Web publishing in which B2B has been ahead of the curve, innovating platforms and business models that consumer brands "discovered" only years later....