Min's B to B articles from March 2006

Min's B to B archives from March 2006

min's b2b Exclusive: Major B2B Group Publishers Year-End 2005 Ad Pages (Part 2).(Illustration)
March 6, 2006... It will come as no surprise to anyone who's been following our Boxscore coverage (or the general business news) that Construction Equipment Group is one of the stronger performers in this second installment of our 2005 B2B Group Publishers...

'06 M&A Gets a Fast Jump in Busy January Action.
March 6, 2006... Anyone who thinks that all the good B2B media properties have been snapped up after last year's record mergers and acquisitions binge should think again. As the accompanying chart on page 8 shows, 2006 could well be on the way to becoming the...

Steve Smith on Digital Media: Long Tail Wagging the Print Dog--Can Google Goose Offline Ad Sales, Too?
March 6, 2006... As is its wont, Google continues to throw technology at everything, hoping that its automated auction for online ad sales is applicable in all media. In recent months, the search engine auc-tioned off space it had purchased from 26 magazines,...

BIN Spin (December): Nearly 4% Ad-Page Gain Yields +6.22% $$$ Growth.(Illustration)
March 6, 2006... Computing/Telecom took its hits in 2005, but the super-category remains the top B2B moneymaker, according to final year-end 2005 Business Information Network tallies from American Business Media. Fastest growing included Agriculture...

Media Research: B2B $$$ Gains 2.4% in '05, But Still Trails Eight Other Media Options.
March 6, 2006... B2B ad spending growth in 2005 was +2.40%, placing it eighth among the 12 TNS Media Intelligence media charted here. This is a 26.3% improvement over B2B's meager +1.90% growth mark a year ago. Ad Spending by Media: Full Year 2005 vs....

Media Research:When Does Corporate Respect Overlap With Top Ad Spending?
March 6, 2006... Automakers are traditionally some of the biggest advertisers anywhere, year in and year out. But, other than Japan's Toyota Motors, none of them appears on the Top 10 list of most respected companies. That really shouldn't be surprising,...

$10.3B VNU Buyout Bid: Victory Dance or Battle Cry?(Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven B.V. )
March 13, 2006... Oftentimes, announcing board acceptance of a public buyout offer marks the end of a long, frequently fractious process. But in the case of Dutch media conglomerate VNU NV, the announcement Wednesday (March 8) that it had unanimously accepted...

min's b2b Exclusive: Major B2B Group Publishers Year-End 2005 Ad Pages (Part 3):.
March 13, 2006... One of B2B's bellwether companies, Hanley Wood, headlines this third installment of our 2005 Group Publishers review. After yet another big year in home building and commercial construction, HW too had a big year. For the group of HW...

A Note on Our New & Improved Boxscores.
March 13, 2006... Beginning with this issue, we introduce our new and improved Boxscores for the 2006 publishing year. Working in conjunction with data vendor IMS/The Auditor, we've made several significant changes: * Added relevant new titles to such...

b2b Boxscores (January 2006): Newly Subdivided Healthcare, Rx Sectors Sport Major New Year's Surgery.
March 13, 2006... As noted in our page 1 Boxscore blurb, we're incorporating a number of enhancements in our B2B print Boxscore program that will appear in the coming weeks. We chose to wait until the beginning of the new data year to execute these...

Boxscores (January 2006):Developer/Tech, Government Groups Boast New Books in '06 Upgrade.(Illustration)
March 13, 2006... As was seen with our Healthcare/Pharmaceutical overhaul on page 3, the 2006 edition of our Developer/Technical group has several significant changes. True aficionados (you know who you are) will note several surgical deletions of books that...

B2B People on the Move.
March 13, 2006... At CMP Media, Rob Preston has returned to Informationweek as editor-in- chief; he had been editor-in-chief of another CMP title, Network Computing. Preston succeeds Stephanie Stahl, who was named editor-in-chief of CMP's Streaming Media unit....

M&A Monitor: One Last Look at '05 Action, Via Whitestone's Annual Recap.(Illustration)
March 13, 2006... Media valuations for five of the 10 sectors tracked in Whitestone Communications annual recap soared by 150% or more in 2005, with B2B print/events registering at +246%. Next year's valuations should be sky-high, too, if the VNU NV buyout goes...

min's b2b Exclusive: Major B2B Group Publishers Year-End 2005 Ad Pages (Part 4).
March 20, 2006... As we forge on with this, the fourth of six parts in our review of 2005 B2B Group Publishers, we come upon several companies that have been in the news recently. First up is Lebhar-Friedman, whose results charted on page 5--five key titles...

Buyers & Sellers: Ad Agencies Are Hustling as Fast as B2B Publishers to Keep Up With Digital Media.
March 20, 2006... No one disputes anymore that digital media is changing the face of the media business--both what and how media companies sell--in ways unimaginable just a few years ago. While a print ad page is still great for branding and wide industry...

B2B Boxscores (January 2006): Giga-Mergers, Cable Overlap Spell Big Changes Afoot in Telecom Markets.
March 20, 2006... 2006 is likely to bring big changes in many of the industries covered by our B2B Boxscores, but perhaps none more so than in the Telecommunications field (see first chart below). One big switch is the growing overlap between telecom and the...

B2B Boxscores (January 2006):Bulked-Up Computing Group Adds Seven New Titles to the Mix.
March 20, 2006... COMPUTING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January 2006/2005) Ad Pages Ad Pages % Chg. YTD 2005 YTD 2004 YTD 1 Baseline (Ziff Davis) ...

Winning on the Web: A Dozen B2Bs Make the Grade in min's b2b "Best of the Web" Awards.(online advertising )
March 20, 2006... Just as online advertising options are proliferating like mink, so are the categories of excellence in our third annual "Best of the Web" Awards that were distributed in New York last week during the min Day Summit at New York's Grand Hyatt....

Farm Journal Reaps Grand Neal As ABM Doles Out 38 Citations for Excellence.(American Business Media award)(Neal Award)
March 27, 2006... For years, Farm Journal Media and its namesake flagship magazine have been innovators in B2B. Early on, Farm Journal recognized the business imperative of market segmentation and was a pioneer in the early 1990s use of selective binding to...

Steve Smith on Digital Media: Eavesdropping on Min Day Summit--Getting Over Google and Debating Digital Paper.
March 27, 2006... As the magazine tribes gathered at the Grand Hyatt in New York City last week for our own Min Day Summit 2006, B2B did not take a back seat to the glitzier consumer side. PC World's Ulla McGee, Billboard's John Kilcullen, Cygnus Business...

b2b Group Publishers (2005 vs. 2004)--Part 5.
March 27, 2006... Newly-crowned president/CEO of Reed Business Information Tad Smith occupies one of the plum jobs in publishing. As with any new executive, however, a key measure of his success will be company growth. While RBI--the headline company in this...

B2B Boxscores (January 2006): 1) Business-As-Usual Eludes Travel in '06 Ad-Sales Start.
March 27, 2006... Sometimes business as usual can be a curse, but sometimes you just can't get enough of a good thing. Our Travel/Lodging/Hospitality group wishes this publishing year had begun with business as usual, because then the field wouldn't be...

B2B Boxscores (January 2006): 2) Transportation's Late '05 Momentum Carries Into New Publishing Year.
March 27, 2006... Unlike Travel (see above), January results in our Transportation sector retained some of the positive momentum the group enjoyed at year-end. Our headline to close out 2005 read, "Transportation Finishes Turbulent Year on Mild Upswing," and...

B2B Boxscores (January 2006/2005): Revamped Electronics Field Shows Early 8%- Plus Ad $$$ Surge.
March 27, 2006... ENGINEERING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January 2006/2005) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 Advanced Imaging (Cygnus) ...