Min's B to B articles from July 2005

Min's B to B archives from July 2005

In Wake of Canon/Hanley Wood/Primedia, Advanstar Hangs Out the 'For Sale' Sign.
July 11, 2005... It looks like all the financial analysts and media brokers who've been telling us this will be a busy year for b2b mergers and acquisitions knew what they were talking about. The latest private-equity-backed b2b company to hit the auction...

Will Advanstar Auction Adversely Affect Primedia Price?(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Don't look for the prospective sale of Advanstar Communications to have a big impact on the pending auction of Primedia's business info unit, which went on the block in late April (min's b2b, 5/2/05). Prob- ably the only way it could exert...

Monetizing Your Content: Early Struggles Pay Off As Lebhar-Friedman Tops $700K in New CMS Revenue.(content management system)
July 11, 2005... Any publisher today who wants to maximize its opportunities to monetize content and data needs a decent content management system. Like many good things, this is easier said than done. The CMS needs to aggregate company- or department-wide...

Steve Smith on New Media Boxscores (April/May): Some Techs Start Tanking As Biz Eyeballs Slip Into Summer Daze.(Search engines)
July 11, 2005... After a strong spring, traffic to business information took its annual slide toward summertime blues in May, with most sites registering a loss. In previous months, b2b had garnered tons of links from news portals and content partners, and...

b2b Boxscores (April): 1) Foodservice Books Barely Budge After So-So First Quarter.(business to business)
July 11, 2005... They're pretty much shooting par in Foodservice: Through April, 14 of 29 titles have posted above-average (-0.16%) year-to-date ad-page counts, while 16 registered spending gains in excess of the group's average +1.32%. Basically, about half...

b2b Boxscores (April): 2) Accelerated April Revs Up Automotive Field.(business to business)(Illustration)
July 11, 2005... AUTOMOTIVE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-April 2005 vs. 2004) Ad Pages PUBLICATIONS YTD 2005 1 ABRN Automotive Body Repair News ...

b2b Boxscores (April 2005): Engineering Books Manufacture YTD Plusses in Both Ad Pages, Revenue.
July 11, 2005... ENGINEERING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-April 2005 vs. 2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages PUBLICATIONS YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 Advanced Imaging 92.12...

b2b People on the Move.(Business to business)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... William Passano (ex-Jobson/Cliggott Publishing) next week will join Ascend Media as president of the healthcare publishing group that is anchored by the Medical Communications unit AM acquired last December...The latest restructuring at...

M&A Monitor:VNU Eyes Rx Data Market, Swings For The Fences With $6.9B IMS Health Buy.
July 18, 2005... Going as far back as the first term of the Clinton administration, healthcare has been a defining (and polarizing) issue in this country. It has also become a defining issue in b2b, as one company after another feeds at the M&A trough to add...

Marketing Alliances: Cygnus, Forbes Join Up On Risk Forum Debut.
July 18, 2005... How do you launch a new paid-subscription newsletter into a market that is visibly growing but is also nearly impossible to define? The same way you launch a new business conference catering to the same subject, risk management in an ever...

Steve Smith on New Media: You Bet Your RSS--On-Demand Media Gets Really Real.(Real Simple Syndication)
July 18, 2005... As b2b Web managers ponder their offerings, it may already be too late to redesign that front page as a blog or forum. After all, within two years, site visitors may not even be hitting your home page anymore. User-controlled media platforms...

Boxscores (April 2005):Developers/Tech Field Trims Earlier Losses.
July 18, 2005... It may seem a stretch to call a month in which more than a third of a publishing category posts double-digit, year-to-date revenue declines as something of a success (if not quite a moral victory). But that's what we're going to call the...

IDG Lands CMP's Friedenberg To Boost Its CXO Media Subsidiary.(International Data Group)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... In the time-honored tradition of strengthening one's own hand while weakening the competitions', International Data Group last week raided CMP Media's young executive ranks to head one of its fast-growing units. The prize: 91/2-year CMP...

b2b Boxscores (April 2005):Banking Is Still Running With a Full Tank.
July 18, 2005... In our Banking/Finance writeup last time (min's b2b, 6/20/05), we remarked, half jokingly (but only half), that "They're Laughing All the Way To The Bank" in this busy and important b2b publishing sector. That's probably still true, even...

Boxscores (April 2005):Healthcare/Rx Ad Revenue Doesn't Stop At The Printed Page.
July 18, 2005... The print advertising picture in our healthcare sector (which really only represents the tip of the iceberg; Standard Rate & Data Service has a whole separate directory devoted exclusively to healthcare media) has been ailing for some time....

Healthcare IT Startup Claims 20% $$$ Share In A Five-Horse Field.(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The last time we reviewed Healthcare/Rx Boxscores (min's b2b, 5/30/05), we mentioned a new startup from 101communications' Federal Computer Week called Government Health IT. But Neil Rouda, publisher of MedTech News' Healthcare IT News,...

b2b Boxscores (April 2005): Strong April Results Beef Up Broadcast/Video's Bottom Line.
July 18, 2005... BROADCAST/VIDEO AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-April 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 Broadcast Engineering...

b2b People On The Move.(Jim Holzer, David Yockelson, and Michael Friedenberg appointed)(Steve Slakis appointed at Watt Publishing)(Martha Schwartz appointed at Ziff Davis Media's Custom Solutions Group)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Dealmaker Berkery, Noyes & Co. is forming a new investment-banking group to serve the global information technology, software and services markets. To help spearhead the effort, the company has brought in three new managing directors: Shawn...

b2b Stockwatch: Despite Sluggish Week, Most Listings Come Out in the Plus Column.
July 18, 2005... It's certainly been an up-again/down-again year for JupiterMedia, which at times has led our week's "weakest" column but this time repeats among the strongest (+2.56%). Reuters Group, meanwhile, crosses over from last week's weakest to this...

M&A shorts.(Incoming Calls Management Institute)(Summer Communications)(Expo Productions)(mergers and acquisitions)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... CMP Media last week agreed to pay $3.7M for the Incoming Calls Management Institute, another in its recent acquisition flurry of professional educational and accreditation organizations...Cygnus Business Media has acquired EMS Magazine, EMS...

Move of the Week (I).(Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven B.V. acquires IMS Health Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... It's a pretty easy call for the first entry in this new min's b2b feature. VNU's announced $6.9B cash/stock acquisition of IMS Health Inc. takes the cake. Through recent acquisitions, companies as diverse as Advanstar, Ascend Media, CMP...

Move of the Week (II).(Mike Friedenberg appointed as head International Data Groups CXO Media subsidiary)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... International Data Group recruiting Mike Friedenberg to head its CXO Media subsidiary. The former InformationWeek publisher, who excelled at every assignment he took on at CMP Media, now takes over one of IDG's fastest growing units. Look...

New Media: Is Google Gunning For Your Gold?
July 25, 2005... International Data Group CEO Pat Kenealy may have been more prescient than he realized a few months back when he said "in America, Google is our biggest competition, more than Ziff Davis or CMP, in dollars and in importance." It turns out...

BIN tracks 5th month of ad $$$ growth.(Business Information Network)(Illustration)
July 25, 2005... For the fifth time in as many months b2b print ad revenue rose, delivering a +4.64% year-to-date spending growth rate for the 22 ad categories monitored in American Business Media's May Business Information Network. As compiled by IMS/The...

b2b Boxscores (April): 1) Could Building Sector Take The Bump If Housing Prices Begin To Slump?(business to business)
July 25, 2005... Magazine and newspaper business sections are chock-full of speculation about the coming fall of a sky-high housing market in which some California residents earning more than the state's median salary can't even afford a home at the median...

b2b Boxscores (April): 2) Government Books Boost Pages By 20%, $$$ By 25%-Plus.(business to business)
July 25, 2005... Speaking of markets with nearly unrestrained spending and price increases, the federal government's budget deficit under the supposedly anti- spending Bush administration continues to dwarf anything seen previously. And advertisers are avidly...

Boxscores (April 2005): No end in sight for computing sector's print problems.(Illustration)
July 25, 2005... COMPUTING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-April 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 Baseline (Ziff Davis) 126.17...

Managing Online Content: Web Vet: Myriad Choices Also Pose Myriad Challenges.
July 25, 2005... One boon of running online b2b content is that there are none of the space constraints common to print. One bane, however, is that there are none of the space constraints common to print--meaning that Web editors have to work all the harder...

Boxscores (April 2005): 1) Southbound Travel Group logs a near 24-point one-month downswing in YTD spending.(Illustration)
July 25, 2005... The Travel/Lodging/Hospitality sector is becoming one of the more difficult sectors to gauge in our Boxscores. According to our TNS Media Intelligence figures, in April, the group continued its recent pattern of double-digit ad-page declines....

Boxscores (April 2005): 2) Transport Titles Slip In $$$ Despite Ad-Page Boost.(Illustration)
July 25, 2005... TRANSPORTATION AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-April 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 Air Cargo World...

b2b Boxscores (April): Despite Only Slim April Gains, Telecom's YTD Still Beats b2b Averages.(Illustration)
July 25, 2005... TELECOMMUNICATIONS (January-April 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 America's Network (Advanstar) ...

b2b People On The Move.(appointment of John Byrne in BusinessWeek)(appointment of Angelo Mandarano in Ziff Davis Media inc)(appointment of John Guzzo Berkery, Noyes & Co)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... John Byrne has rejoined BusinessWeek as executive editor. Since April 2003, he had been editor-in-chief of Fast Company, which was sold last month to Chicago businessman Joe Mansueto. Byrne has received much credit for keeping the business...

Move of the Week.(resignation of John Byrne from Fast company)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Fast Company editor-in-chief John Byrne uses the exit to rejoin BusinessWeek, where he penned 57 cover stories between 1985 and 2003 as executive editor. After FC's gravy years (its late 1990s boom under former owner Mort Zuckerman of U.S....

mini-M&A Monitor.(business agreements)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... As we went to press, reports, later retracted, had been circulating that former Primedia CEO Charlie McCurdy's fast-growing Apprise Media had agreed to pay about $375M for PRM's business unit, but no final deal had yet emerged. See our next...