Min's B to B articles from January 2007

Min's B to B archives from January 2007

Dealmaker Indeed.
January 8, 2007... Neal Vitale's 1105 Opens 2007 With A Bang January 2 saw the announcement of two additional 1105 Media acquisitions (on top of last month's acquisition of Post Newsweek Tech Media from the Washington Post Co., min's b2b of 12/18). 1105...

Krakoff Speaks On Changes At VNU.(VNU Business Media's Bob Krakoff)
January 8, 2007... You all read the news reports on some of the big stories in the second half of December, especially regarding moves at VNU Group and VNU Business Media. Here's a little extra on some of those items from an inside player. VNU Group Sells...

The Clairvoyant Pat McGovern.(managing Computerworld Inc.)
January 8, 2007... In 1967, a Blackberry was a blackberry and went well with cheesecake. Most people had never seen a computer, or what would pass for one in a museum, even. Yet, Pat McGovern, founder and chairman of IDG, had the foresight to start a magazine...

NASA Tech Briefs Lifts Off.
January 8, 2007... By 1984, NASA had finally decided that it would be unable to continue fulfilling its mandated obligation to share its tax-payer-supported scientific discoveries with the American public, and so NASA Tech Briefs was born in its modern...

Developers Ad Page Market Contracts.
January 8, 2007... This past year has seen a lot of turmoil in the developer space. The positive: MacTech is up over 100% on the year. And the negative: three books folded--1105's Application Development Trends (min's b2b of 12/11), and CMP's C/C++ Users...

Getting Feedback When Readers Won't Feed.
January 8, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor Some business segments are just chattier than others. If you publish for the public relations industry, for instance, your readers will never leave you alone. They will fill your in-box with...

CPC And McMurry's Publications Management Announce Huge Increases For Custom In 2006.(Interview)
January 8, 2007... According to the findings, the amount companies spent, on average, on custom publishing grew to just under $1.13 million in 2006, an 18% increase from 2005. Almost one quarter of all marketing dollars are spent on custom publishing, and 87%...

Hanley Wood Buys Surging Book.(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Hanley Wood and Ascend Media announced on January 2 the sale of Pro AV from Ascend to HW. Outside counsel did not advise on the deal and terms were not disclosed. Pro AV has been on a major up-tick this year (min's b2b of 11/13 and...

ALM Announces Appointments.(Company overview)
January 15, 2007... Lundberg Leaves A Management Gap In mid-December, Eric Lundberg, ex-CFO of ALM, was plucked from his position by the powers on high to be the CFO of the new Penton/Prism, a company that will be much larger than ALM is. ALM's owners are...

TV Wars.
January 15, 2007... Among the broadcast television and cable television books that we cover (Reed Business Information's Broadcasting and Cable and Multichannel News, Crain Communications' Television Week, and Access Intelligence's Cable World--a sister...

Drug Topics Turns 150, Hopes To Put 149 Behind.(Event overview)
January 15, 2007... Advanstar's Drug Topics is one of three big horizontal books that we follow in the pharmaceutical space--the others being Ascend's Pharmacy Times and Jobson's US Pharmacist. Aside from leading the pack in 2006 in ad pages (978.52 v. PT's...

Aviation/Etc. Takes Over Top BIN Spot.
January 15, 2007... Due to a strong October (up 25.18% in ad pages), the Aviation/Aerospace/Military ad spending in trade publications is the fastest growing category in 2006, as reported by American Business Media and IMS. Resources & Utilities, which had the...

M&A In 2007, According To DeSilva & Phillips.(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... DeSilva & Phillips has concluded in its annual report on the M&A market that "the outlook in 2007 is as good as we've ever seen," and "all the pieces are in place." According to the chart below, 2007 is indeed poised to be a big year in M&A,...

Healthcare Pages Down 10% In November.(Industry overview)(Table)
January 15, 2007... HEALTHCARE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-November 2006/2005) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 Advance for Health Info....

The Sites We've Seen.(Industry overview)
January 15, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor For min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report A number of launches and site enhancements hit us after the holiday lull, as pent-up creative energies among B2B publishers gushed online this month....

Travelage West/Travel Agent Struggle In 2006.
January 15, 2007... TRAVEL/LODGING/HOSPITALITY AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January -November 2006/2005) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 Business...

QuickView.(Character overview)
January 15, 2007... Ross Ayotte, Publisher And Managing Director Of EE Times Ross Ayotte, the new publisher of CMP Tech's flagship book, EE Times, is no stranger to jumping the boardroom table and taking a seat on the opposite side. Most recently, Ayotte...

Postal Notes.(Chart)
January 15, 2007... President Bush signed the recently passed postal bills into law (min's b2b of 12/18), on Wednesday, 12/20. In honor of that event, David Strauss, counsel to American Business Media and postal law guru has condensed almost 40 years of postal...

CMP Buys Into China.(Company overview)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... CMP's International Customer Management Institute, acquired in 2005, has itself acquired the Beijing-based Customer Contact Center Standard, a consulting, training, and call-center certification firm. Aside from expanding its reach into the...

Relaunch: CRN.COM.(Website overview)
January 15, 2007... In November, we reported on major changes at CMP's CRN (min's b2b of 11/13). In addition to totally revamping the print product, publishers of CRN took another look at the online product as well. Notable features of the new Web site...

VNU...Er, Uh, Nielsen Bulks Up.(VNU Group changes name to Nielsen Company)(Nielsen Company and Burrill & Company combine to form Global Media Group Burrill Life Sciences Media, LLC.)
January 22, 2007... Consortium-Owned Company Delves Into Life Sciences VNU Business Media and California-based Burrill & Company are entering into a joint venture that will be known as Global Media Group Burrill Life Sciences Media, LLC. The new division...

ABM Gets In Front Of The Camera.(PodcastGO and American Business Media Inc. sign video podcasting deal)
January 22, 2007... PodcastGO, a turnkey solution for online video strategy, production, and distribution, will be forming a partnership with American Business Media in which PodcastGO will become the official video vendor to ABM. In addition, PodcastGO,...

Cygnus Builds Video Success.(Cygnus Business Media and PermissionTV to launch a website showcasing the latest heavy constructional equipment)(ad pages, sales and revenues of construction industry)
January 22, 2007... The continued decrease in housing starts (min's b2b of 12/4), predicted to continue in 2007 has some impact on the commercial construction industry, which digs many of the foundations for housing developments. However, according to Dave...

Motor Age Racing Ahead Of Motor.
January 22, 2007... Motor Age, the heart of Advanstar's powerhouse powersports group, is having an excellent year. Despite the turmoil the domestic auto manufacturers market finds itself in, MA, (a large repair shop book), is up 18.01% in ad pages year-to-date...

LightWave Not Peaking Yet.(Statistical data)
January 22, 2007... In the November 20 issue of min's b2b, we discussed PennWell's LightWave, a book that is having a challenging year (down 45.22% in ad pages year-to-date). According to vice president and group publishing director, Mark Finkelstein,...

Biggest Gainers Year-To-Date.(Brief article)
January 22, 2007... January - November Top Publications sorted by YTD % Gain Publication YTD 2006 YTD 2006 % diff 1 MACTECH 459 226.61 102.55 2 Long Term Care News 504.51 285.95 76.43 3 Broadcast Engineering ...

More M&A, 2007.(Statistical data)
January 22, 2007... Several forward-looking reports on the 2007 media M&A market have been pumped out recently. In a community of fairly bitter rivals, there is general consensus: 2007 will be a very strong year for media M&A. According to Richard Mead,...

November Serves Turkey.(Report)
January 22, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor For min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report Unless you were a librarian or an IT guy, November offered a respite from business information surfing. Most major B2B sites took their expected...

CMP Technology Shutters Print IE.(CMP Technology closes Intelligent Enterprise to launch it entirely online)(Brief article)
January 22, 2007... CMP Technology announced in an internal memo this week that it will be moving Intelligent Enterprise--launched in 1998--entirely online. Founding editor-in-chief, David Stodder, has left the company but will continue to contribute to the Web...

Stockholders Make It Official.(stockholders consent awaited by Wasserstein and Co. to aquire Penton Media Inc.)
January 29, 2007... Penton + Prism Deal Rumored Set To Close Feb 1 On January 23, Penton Media common shareholders and equity shareholders voted 93% and 100%, respectively, to accept Wasserstein & Co.'s bid to buy Penton. An announcement released in an SEC...

BIN Signifies Rise Of Architects.
January 29, 2007... According to American Business Media's BIN numbers, through November, magazine ad pages sold for 2006 are holding steady at an increase of .74%. One category that has been particularly strong is architecture, design, and lighting. min's b2b...

Transport Industry Indicating Weak Economy In 2007?
January 29, 2007... The health of the transportation industry, as with that of trade publishing, can be used as an economic indicator. After all, if things aren't being sold, they aren't being transported. In our transportation boxscores this month, every book we...

Restaurant Books Compete Differently.
January 29, 2007... Over 625 print ad pages were boiled out of the restaurant books that we follow through the first 11 months of 2006--an evaporation of 12.44%. Three out of the four books followed suit, with only the smallest book, Ideal Media's Restaurant...

Government Spending To Increase In 2007.(Report)
January 29, 2007... The near 300% increase that Penton's Government Product News saw in November of 2006 jumps off the page. National sales manager Dave Gibson cites the revamping of the GPN Web site as being a huge asset in selling the print product. In...

Broadcast Engineering Has Huge November.(Statistical table)(Brief article)
January 29, 2007... January - November Top Publications sorted by November % Gain (minimum of 50 ad pages in 2005) Publication YTD 2006 YTD 2005 % diff 1 Broadcast Engrg 2 181.28 60.62 199.04 2 Microwaves &...

"Was This Helpful?": Can Vertical Search Get Communal?
January 29, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor For min, min's b2b, min's Digital Media Report When you get search results at CMPMedica's beta version of SEARCHMEDICA.COM, every link politely asks you whether you found this result helpful and a...

Credit Union Times Bests Nov 2005 By Over 25%.(Statistical table)
January 29, 2007... BANKING/FINANCE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - November 2006/2005) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 ABA Banking Journal...

Questex Hotel Group Goes Vertical.(Questex Media launches Luxury Hotelier, a vertical book)(Brief article)
January 29, 2007... Questex Media will be launching Luxury Hotelier, a vertical book aimed at the luxury hotel market, in September 2007. The book will come out twice in 2007 (once in September and once in November) and then move to six-nine times in 2008. ...

1105 Keeps On Rolling.(1105 Media Inc. acquires Florida Educational Technology Corporation)(Brief article)
January 29, 2007... Neal Vitale's 1105 Media has made yet another acquisition, buying the Florida Educational Technology Corporation, producer of the FETC Conference. This acquisition, 1105's third in 2007 and fourth in just over a month, is perhaps the deal...