Min's B to B articles from June 2007

Min's B to B archives from June 2007

Profile Of B2B Rising In China.
June 4, 2007... B2B Plays Important Role In FIPP Conference Two weeks ago, American Business Media sent a delegation to the 36th annual FIPP Worldwide Magazine Conference that was held in Beijing. Gordon Hughes, president and CEO of ABM and a FIPP board...

Remodeling Market Up, Books Not.
June 4, 2007... A Case Study In Migration Why is an incredibly robust market not fueling ad page gains in a niche with only two books? As you will see in the writeup below, this market is one of many in which revenue is migrating from print to the Web....

Business News Roundup.
June 4, 2007... Entrepreneur Since we published our first horizontal business book chart (min's b2b of 4/23), Entrepreneur has launched offensives on two different fronts. First, Entrepreneur Media Inc., publishers of the book, announced a licensing...

Biggest Ad Page Gainers Year-to-Date.(Table)(Brief article)(Company rankings)
June 4, 2007... TOP TITLES January - March (2007/2006) Sorted by Ad Page Differences Title 2007 2006 Diff` 1 Automotive News 702.55 554.57 147.98 2 Semiconductor Intl. 233.93 149.23 84.7...

Advertising: Nielsen v. Crain.
June 4, 2007... Ad Age and B to B Magazine both cover the advertising and marketing community for Crain while the Adweek group (Mediaweek and Brandweek included) covers it for Nielsen. See how these brands are stacking up against each other in the market...

What's My Line?
June 4, 2007... By Jeff Reinhardt, Managing Director at Berkery, Noyes & Co. Recent mergers and acquisitions have brought to mind the old game show, "What's My Line". "What's My Line" is a guessing game in which the panel tried to identify the "line" of...

Telco Revisited: Wireless Bill Adjustment.
June 4, 2007... In our 5/21 issue, we discussed the market share battle between RCR Wireless and Wireless Week. Since then, we have readjusted our numbers for these books, and the market climate looks a little different. RCR has actually gained 1.55...

One More Thing For The To Do List: SEO Your Video.
June 4, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report If you go to Google and search for "Cadillac Escalade" an interesting thing happens. Not far down the results list a thumbnail appears with a direct...

Biggest Ad Page Gainers In March.(Table)(Brief article)(Company rankings)
June 4, 2007... TOP TITLES March (2007/2006) Sorted by Ad Page Differences Title 2007 2006 Diff` 1 Automotive News 284.64 153.42 131.22 2 Semiconductor Int 123.68 52.62 71.06 3...

2007 Sales Executive Of The Year Awards.
June 4, 2007... Finalists This Thursday, min and min's b2b will announce the winners of our 2007 Sales Executive of the Year Awards at a breakfast at New York's Grand Hyatt. Below are the names of the finalists and the brands that they champion. We will...

Addition By Subtraction?
June 11, 2007... Nielsen Loses Two, Promotes One The news this week at Nielsen Business Media was the promotion of Sabrina Crow to senior vice president of the marketing & media group, which includes the Adweek group, Editor & Publisher, Marketing y...

Congratulations To The Winners Of Min's Sales Executive Of The Year Awards.
June 11, 2007... Three years ago, min teamed up with sales legend Jay Burzon to create the min's Sales Executive of the Year Awards and the Sales Executive Hall of Fame. This year, we give kudos to several B2B executives that deserve recognition. Bill...

Public Works Crushes The Competition.
June 11, 2007... "I'm afraid there's no magic formula here," says Patrick Carroll, group publisher in charge of Hanley Wood's Public Works. It may seem like magic to outsiders that the HW public construction book is up over 50% in ad pages year-to-date....

MH Doubles Up On H&HN.
June 11, 2007... The competition in the horizontal health administration market pits an industry book against a big-name competitor with big media company backing. But American Hospital Association's Hospitals & Health Networks (turning 80 this year) is no...

Top Gainers YTD Through April.(Statistical table)(Company rankings)
June 11, 2007... TOP TITLES IN APRIL (2007/2006) Sorted by YTD Ad Page % Gain TITLE 2007 2006 % 1 Mergers & Acquisitions 75.16 42.83 75.48 2 Sys Admin 175 102.58 ...

Drug Store Books Booming, But Why?
June 11, 2007... Racher's Chain Drug Review is up 37.49% in ad pages year-to-date, while Lebhar-Friedman's Drug Store News is up 27.71% in ad pages year-to-date. More shocking: CDR is up 248.57% in April 2007 v. April 2006, while DSN is up 478.24% April over...

Media And Business Traffic Get Upfront This Spring.(Statistical table)
June 11, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report Coming off of a down February, most business information sites boasted a strong March, with double digit audience growth among many brands. Spring...

Site Launches And Upgrades.
June 11, 2007... Advanstar's MODERNMEDICINE.COM For the reader: "Free, online decision-support resource, providing instant, credible answers for healthcare professionals on the job," and "a cross-specialty library of both current and archived clinical...

UBM Pays for CMP Restructuring.(CMP Technology)(Company overview)
June 18, 2007... Tough Decisions For Weitzner: 200 Gone By The End Of The Month CMP Technology made several restructuring announcements this week. The initiative, led by CEO Steve Weitzner, will affect the whole company and has been in the works for two...

Summit Makes Good On Promise Of Expansion.
June 18, 2007... Late last week (6/8), Summit Business Media announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire from the Wicks Group of Companies Wicks Business Information, publisher of Investment Advisor, Credit Union Times, Inside Counsel, and Treasury...

Possible Strategic Buyers For Stagnito.
June 18, 2007... Media reports confirmed last week (THEMINSIDER.COM) that Ascend is shopping around its Stagnito beverage group, which doesn't fit into its healthcare piece. Some of the potential buyers are rumored to be direct strategic competitors. Looking...

Tough Times For Pharm.
June 18, 2007... Though the pharmaceuticals category ended 2006 up 3% in ad pages, it was really beginning to sag by the end of the year: up only 1.8% in November and down 7% in December. This year, according to IMS/The Auditor and PERQ/HCI- powered BIN...

First Viewing: Video Metrics Tune In.(digital video advertising)
June 18, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report With all of the hype and bother about digital video this year, there are precious few actual numbers behind the effectiveness of pre-roll advertising....

Top Ad Pages In April 2007.(Statistical table)(Brief article)
June 18, 2007... TOP TITLES IN APRIL (2007/2006) Sorted by Highest Ad Pages TITLE 2007 2006 % 1 BUILDER 254.38 312.75 -18.66 2 EE TIMES 239.76 237.18 1.09 3 M&C ...

ZD: Enterprise Group Goes For $150.
June 25, 2007... Consumer And Gaming Up Next Announced Thursday, June 21, Ziff Davis has sold its enterprise division, which includes Baseline, CIO Insight and eWeek, to Insight Venture Partners for about $150 million in cash. If certain performance...

ASBPE Announces Award Finalists.
June 25, 2007... In the hunt for ASBPE's Magazine of the Year are Hanley Wood and IDG with three titles each as finalists. For HW: Builder (over 80,000 circulation), Big Builder (under 80,000), and residential architect (under 80,000). For IDG: CIO, Network...

Microwaves Are For More Than Frozen Burritos.
June 25, 2007... "We had a tremendous year last year," says Doug Markhouse, publisher of Octagon Communication's Microwave Product Digest, which was up almost 6% in ad pages through 2006, outperforming all competitors. "I thought it was a rising tide lifting...

MRT Market Up; Call Center Market Shrinks.
June 25, 2007... Political and economic world conditions have created and, in many cases, reinvigorated certain markets. In the past five years the mobile communications technology market has "come into its own," according to Mark Hickey, publisher of...

CMP Developer Division Growing.(CMP Media L.L.C.)
June 25, 2007... If you look at our ad page boxscores, you'll notice that Sys Admin, a book that CMP is shuttering, is up 70.59% year-to-date in ad pages. That entire page gain is misleading. About 80 pages of the 175 that Sys Admin has posted for the year...

Machine Design v. Design News, Revisited.
June 25, 2007... Through the first four months of 2007, we've detected a shift in this battle of the titans between Reed's Design News and Penton's Machine Design. MD, ahead last year at this time by almost 200 pages (~185), has seen its four- month-lead...

Top Ad Page Titles In 2007.(advertising)(Statistical table)
June 25, 2007... TOP TITLES (2007/2006) SORTED BY HIGHEST YTD AD PAGES (JANUARY - APRIL 2007/2006) : 1 TITLE : EE Product News 2007: 913.27 2006: 932.89 % : -2.1 : 2 TITLE : Automotive News 2007: 912.24 2006: 735.17 % : 24.09 :...

Reed's Partner Network Tries To Wrap The Long Tail Around B2B Advertising.
June 25, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report Finding ways to network advertising into and around the nano-niche verticals of business professionals in the B2B segments had been a longstanding Web...