Min's B to B articles from July 2007

Min's B to B archives from July 2007

BUSINESS.COM on the Block.
July 2, 2007... What's it ABOUT(.COM)? BUSINESS.COM, the somewhat horizontal search engine for all things business, is reportedly up for sale. Stories in the press indicate that the search engine could sell for $300-$400 million. Credit Suisse is said to...

Bodyshop Books Matching Page for Page Through April.
July 2, 2007... The Market "Business has been stagnant for a few years, and some shops have had to close up," says Jon Owens, publisher of Babcox's BodyShop Business. But, on the upside: "Thus, a little more business for those that remain. Also, no...

Cable Market Continues to Struggle.
July 2, 2007... The numbers in our broadcast Boxscores are dismal--collectively, the books we follow are down 26.22% year-to-date in ad pages. Only two books are up at all: Imas' TV Technology and Hanley Wood's Pro AV are both up about 10% on the year. The...

Personal Finance Mags All Hit Hard Through the First Half.
July 2, 2007... Kiplinger, Money, and Smart Money are all down through the first six months of the year, with Money leading the way, down 24.94%. The personal finance ad page market as a whole is down 16.32% year-to-date--almost 170 ad pages off pace from...

Big Logistics Books Down 9% on the Year.
July 2, 2007... This month we welcome Commonwealth's The Journal of Commerce to our Boxscores. The JoC turns 180 years old this year, making it one of the oldest B2B publications around. It was launched by Arthur Tappan and Samuel Morse (of Morse Code fame)...

Hotel Market Holding Its Breath.
July 2, 2007... By October 2000, the hotel and travel industry was clearly on its way to a downturn in the market. The industry had enjoyed steady--and sometimes punctuated--growth since 1992, and, historically, the industry had run in 7-9 year cycles. Then...

Variety Vet Rose Einstein Back in--With THR.
July 2, 2007... Eric Mika, senior vice president and publishing director at Nielsen's The Hollywood Reporter, is a Variety veteran himself, and so he knew what a player Rose Einstein was when taking over at THR. "The reality is that Rose Einstein is one...

Site Upgrades--Short Review.
July 2, 2007... Thomas Publishing's ThomasNet's New Toolbar For the user: "Provide[s] industrial professionals with immediate access to hundreds of product catalogs, more than 20 million CAD drawings, industry news and more," says a statement. For...

WSJ.COM's Two Worlds.(management and finance)
July 2, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report Back in 1999 the saying went that people will only pay for content online that makes or saves them money. At the time, both WSJ.COM and...

The Half-Year in Review: M&A.(statistics and economic aspects of mergers and acquisitions)
July 9, 2007... $1B Acquisitions/'Smaller Deals' According to The Jordan, Edmiston Group's latest report, first half 2007 deal value in the media and information industry ($75.9 billion) has already eclipsed record-setting 2006 deal value totals ($60.6...

Wasserstein Sells ALM to Incisive Media.
July 9, 2007... Wasserstein & Co. announced an agreement on July 5 to sell New York-based ALM--publishers of American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel, among other books--to the publicly-owned, London-based B2B publisher Incisive Media for $630 million in cash....

First-Half News Summary.
July 9, 2007... VNU/Nielsen One of the biggest stories of 2006 was the purchase of VNU Group by Valcon, a consortium of private equity firms, for approximately $11 billion. That story bled into 2007 with: 1. A reorganization of the business media...

Gov Tech Continues Strong Year with Huge May.(Statistical data)
July 9, 2007... GOVERNMENT AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-May 2007/2006) Title (Publisher) Ad Pages YTD 2007 Ad Pages YTD 2006 1 American City & County (Penton) 132.28 157.8 2 Federal Computer Week...

Building Books Down Almost 10% Through April.(Statistical table)(Financial report)
July 9, 2007... BUILDING/CONSTRUCTION AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - April 2007/2006) PUBLICATIONS Ad Pages YTD 2007 Ad Pages YTD 2006 1 Big Builder (Hanley Wood) 176.08 287.7 2...

Top % Gainers Through May--Sys Admin's Last Hurrah.(Brief article)(Statistical data)
July 9, 2007... TOP TITLES SORTED BY HIGHEST PERCENT YTD % GAIN (JANUARY - MAY 2007/2006) TITLE 2007 2006 % 1 Sys Admin 282.08 149.25 89 2 Foodservice Director 203.52 133.48 ...

Chain Drug Review/Drug Store News Have Tough May.
July 9, 2007... PHARMACEUTICAL AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-May 2007/2006) Title (Publisher) Ad Pages YTD 2007 Ad Pages YTD 2006 1 Chain Drug Review (Racher) 448.37 474 2 Contract Pharma (Rodman)...

Newbay Buys Imas.(NewBay Media)(Imas Publishing)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... NewBay Media--publishers of Digital Video and Television Broadcast, among other books in the broadcast video, audio, musical instruments, and education space--has announced the purchase of Imas Publishing--publishers of TV Technology, Radio...

Newly Purchased TV Tech is 13th Biggest Book May.(Statistical table)(Brief article)(Company rankings)
July 9, 2007... TOP TITLES SORTED BY HIGHEST YTD AD PAGES (JANUARY - MAY 2007/2006) TITLE 2007 2006 % 1 EE Times 1,181.42 1,189.52 -0.68 2 Automotive News 1,094.50 941.42 16.26 3 Builder...

Ad Age Continues to Slump Through April.(statistics of marketing industry)(Statistical data)
July 9, 2007... ADVERTISING & MARKETING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - April 2007/2006) Title (Publisher) Ad Pages YTD 2007 Ad Pages YTD 2006 1 1 To 1 Magazine (Peppers & Rogers) 44.5 49.22 2 Advertising...

Health Informatics Making Full Recovery in 2007.(Statistical table)(Company rankings)
July 9, 2007... HEALTHCARE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (JANUARY-MAY 2007/2007 Title (Publisher) Ad Pages YTD 2007 Ad Pages YTD 2006 1 Advance for Health Info. Prof'ls (Merion) 150.24 179.97 2 Health...

Fire Up the Mobile Strategies: Apple's Game Changer.
July 9, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report Mea culpa. For months we were unconvinced that the impending iPhone meant all that much to the digital media industry. We waxed skeptical about its...

Nielsen//NetRatings Changes Game.(launch of new metrics)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... Months After IAB Flap, N//NR Goes Own Way In response to the rise of AJAX, a technology that allows Web sites to serve multiple pages of content without the user refreshing the page, and other new Web technologies, Nielsen//NetRatings has...

Penton Shutters EEPN, Folds it into ED.
July 16, 2007... Add another to the list in a year full of magazine closings. July will be the last time readers will see Penton Media's Electronic Engineering Product News in print. The magazine's content will be folded into Electronic Design. Editors from...

Ideal Rides Innovation Reputation.
July 16, 2007... In a category that's flat (Food: service/restaurants, up .22% in ad pages year-to-date), Ideal Media's Restaurant Business is up a healthy 9.19% in ad pages year-to-date and Ideal's FoodService Director is up a whopping 52.48% year-to-date....

Ward's Rebounding from Tough '06.(periodicals)(Ward's Auto World)
July 16, 2007... Penton's iconic brand (turns 81 this year), Ward's Auto World, survived a tough 2006 in ad pages. The book lost almost 200 of its 450 pages, for a decrease of 40.81%. Through the first quarter of 2007, things were still not looking up, with...

Summit/Source Dominate Banking Boxscores.
July 16, 2007... As expected, Summit Business Media's acquisition of Wicks Business Information closed, making Summit a more formidable rival to financial services publishing giant SourceMedia. At this point in 2007, Source has sold about 650 more ad pages...

Pharm Makes Big Gains in April.(trade periodicals ad pages)
July 16, 2007... The biggest move in the BIN chart this month, provided by American Business Media and powered by IMS/The Auditor and PERQ/HCI, was in the pharmaceuticals category, where ad pages in the month of April 2007 v. April 2006 were up 42.84%. The...

Benchmarking the Webcasts.
July 16, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report If you are looking to register attendees to your next Webcast, try pushing the offer on Mondays or Tuesdays. A new and fascinating study of Webcast and...

Mike Marchesano Leaves Nielsen, and more...(VNU Business Media)(Summit Business Media appointed Thomas Flynn)(PC Magazine promoted Lance Ulanoff )
July 16, 2007... In August 2006, min's b2b reported on Bob Krakoff's ousting of Mike Marchesano, who had been president and CEO of VNU Business Media. Marchesano was "promoted" to corporate as "chief transformation officer" in charge of "project forward," a...

Rumors Long Dead, Mediabistro Sold.(Company overview)
July 23, 2007... Jupitermedia Picks up Networking/Job Board/Internet Startup Since at least August of 2006, when rumors of the highly visible media company's auction became public, DeSilva + Phillips, specifically Reed Phillips, has been working to sell...

Print Pages Growing in DM Industry.
July 23, 2007... In a category that is down almost 4% in ad pages year-to-date (not bad-- is down the new flat?), Penton's Direct magazine and North American Publishing Company's Target Marketing have outperformed their advertising/marketing peers, up 3.82%...

Broadcast/Video Books Continue to Struggle.
July 23, 2007... BROADCAST/VIDEO AD PAGES AD PAGES AND REVENUES (JANUARY-MAY 2007/2006) Title (Publisher) Ad Pages YTD 2007 Ad Pages YTD 2006 1 Broadcast Engineering (Penton) 470.04 768.2 2...

Site Launches and Upgrades.
July 23, 2007... Prescott Shibles, Penton's digital media guru, has had a busy month. There may have been some we missed, but here are two sites that Penton launched/upgraded in the past three weeks. And, check out the CONTENTINOPLE.COM upgrades. ...

Can Publishers Still Use an Opt-Out Email Strategy?
July 23, 2007... By Eric Shanfelt, Guest Columnist and President and Founder of eMedia Strategist, Inc. Go to conferences or read publications and blogs and you'll find that most everyone believes that opt-in or double opt-in is the only option a...

May Boxscores: As The Seasons Turn.
July 23, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report Much of the movement in May's traffic was related unremarkably to seasonality in the respective industries. Always a bellwether of good weather, the...

Reorg At Cygnus.
July 30, 2007... Two Top Managers Dealt out of the Deck Cygnus Business Media, a company under some scrutiny after a failed attempt by ABRY Partners to sell it last summer, continued the facelift begun in August 2006 with the departure of Paul Mackler and...

Mike Marchesano Moves On, Quickly.
July 30, 2007... Less than two weeks after announcing his resignation from The Nielsen Company as chief transformation officer, Mike Marchesano has landed in a sprint as a managing director at The Jordan Edmiston Group. JEGI has been on a roll since early...

DJ & Co. Moving? Market Says No.
July 30, 2007... THEBUSINESS.COM, the online component to a UK business magazine of the same name, reported two weeks ago that Rupert Murdoch and Dow Jones & Co. would announce an agreement for acquisition by Murdoch two weeks ago. DJ still remains a...

American Manufacturing Resurgence? DE Thinks So.
July 30, 2007... If there's optimism in the modern manufacturing industry, it lives in China. At least that's what traditional wisdom over the past ten years would suggest. Brian Vaillancourt, publisher of Level 5 Communication's Desktop Engineering, feels...

KBDN Regains Dominance over K+BB.(Interview)
July 30, 2007... The last time we reported on this battle between Nielsen's Kitchen and Bath Business and Cygnus' Kitchen & Bath Design News, K+BB was sneaking up on KBDN (see the full article at MINONLINE.COM in the 10/2/06 issue of min's b2b). At that...

Rebroadcast.
July 30, 2007... At min's b2b, we are constantly striving to improve our coverage of B2B media. Part of this effort is the constant updating of our signature Boxscores: adding many new titles, and pruning those that have become less relevant or have...

Meetings & Conventions Way up, Meeting News Down.
July 30, 2007... TRAVEL/LODGING/HOSPITALITY AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - May 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 Business Travel News...

Gulf Shipping Strong, Pacific Shipping Weak.(Statistical table)
July 30, 2007... TRANSPORTATION AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January- May 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 Air Cargo World...

Junta42 Search for Custom Publishing's Niche.
July 30, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report If you are a custom publisher or just a marketing guy in a major corporation, where do you go for guidance on how to publish a good white paper, a...

Questex Buys B2B/B2C Hybrid Site.
July 30, 2007... Announced last week, Questex Media Group has acquired Five Star Alliance, an online luxury hotel booking service for luxury travelers (defined as having a combined household income of $200,000 or more) and the travel agents that serve them....