Min's B to B articles from March 2007

Min's B to B archives from March 2007

PRC Makes Recommendations.(Postal Regulatory Commission )(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Publishers Must Take Their Medicine; Possible Side Effects? Postal rates increasing is never good news for businesses that count the Postal Service as a major vendor. On Monday, February 26, the Postal Regulatory Commission recommended...

Group Publishers' Coverage: Year End Roundup Begins.
March 5, 2007... Our exclusive group publishers' coverage begins this week with help from our friends at IMS/The Auditor. Big changes happened this year and will be reflected in our coverage. Most notably, the new Penton Media is within striking distance of...

Greenspan Down on Economy, Transporters Agree.
March 5, 2007... Summary Reported on February 26 in the Chicago Tribune and in papers across the country: Alan Greenspan predicts a recession to begin in late 2007. Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, was a tip-top prognosticator in his day--...

Group Publishers' Coverage: AI, Advanstar, Advantage.
March 5, 2007... AI Poised for Healthy 2007 Access Intelligence (parent of min's b2b), the Veronis Suhler Stevenson- owned B2B media company, had nearly 10% fewer ad pages in 2006 v. 2005. Heavy losses in ad pages resulted from changing Film & Video from...

B2B Ad Pages Flat in 2006.
March 5, 2007... Relatively flat ad pages for 2006 is not bad news for B2B publishers at a time when print is supposedly in trouble. Unfortunately, publishers tracked by min's b2b in 2006 did not fare as well as nationwide publishers, decreasing in ad pages...

Data Giant TNS Gets Stronger.(BuzzMetrics)
March 5, 2007... In a move that counters last year's sale of 51% of BuzzMetrics to then- VNU, which then acquired Intelliseek to create Nielsen BuzzMetrics, TNS Media Intelligence has announced the acquisition of Cymfony. Both Cymfony and BuzzMetrics measure...

Take Harvard Business Review to Market.
March 5, 2007... An article published in the March 2007 Harvard Business Review by James R. Gregory and Donald E. Sexton, entitled "Hidden Wealth in B2B Brands," is worth reading and taking to your clients. In the article, Gregory and Sexton claim that,...

Video Meets the Ad Banner.
March 5, 2007... Video is the new crack/cocaine of online. Advertisers say they want the inventory, and users can't seem to get enough of it. B2B publishers get caught in the usual bind. Sexy emerging platforms like video, podcasting and mobile are just too...

Penton Begins Slimming.(Prism Media)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... 120 Employees to Be Let Go, in Wake of October Prism Cuts Following the closing of the Penton/Prism deal (min's b2b of 2/5), the new company has already begun the cost-cutting consolidation that was factored into the $530 million sale...

Fastest Growing Group Publishers.
March 12, 2007... If print is dead, then these companies are zombies, walking the face of the media business and feeding on the ad pages of "the living." Check out these media companies that grew in print in 2006, while the market remained flat. Next week,...

Source: IMS/The Auditor (Toronto, Ontario).
March 12, 2007... [Copyright 2006 Access Intelligence, LLC. All rights reserved.]

Group Publishers' Report: ALM.
March 12, 2007... "Our industry had a very good year," says CEO Bill Pollak of law book publisher ALM. "You read about deal-flow being up, and all those deals require lawyers, so there's been plenty of activity amongst the law firms looking for new business,...

Engineering Books Build Lead In Early 2007.(Table)
March 12, 2007... ENGINEERING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 Advanced Imaging (Cygnus) ...

Variety Kidnaps Two Hollywood Reporters.(Cynthia Littleton and Anne Thompson)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... According to a report posted on VARIETY.COM, Reed's Variety has snagged Cynthia Littleton and Anne Thompson away from Nielsen's The Hollywood Reporter. Thompson and Littleton held positions as editor and deputy film editor, respectively....

Group Publishers' Report: Ascend.
March 12, 2007... According to Cam Bishop, CEO of Ascend Media, "our top performing business was our allied healthcare division, which Dennis Triola runs." Triola, who has been running that division of Ascend for about a year and half, has brought a lot of...

Group Publishers' Report: BNP.(BNP Media)(Top 20 B2B Group Publishers of 2006)
March 12, 2007... BNP Media flies below the radar. Despite not grabbing a headline in min's b2b in 2006, the Troy, Michigan based media company is a very major player, coming in at third on our Top 20 B2B Group Publishers of 2006 list (min's b2b of 3/5). The...

Group Publishers' Report: CMP.
March 12, 2007... Many books at CMP Technology (chart on previous page) faced double digit decreases this year, including marquee titles InformationWeek and CRN. CMP's crown jewel, however, EE Times, was up almost 100 pages to barely eclipse 3,100 on the...

Group Publishers' Report: A Short Note on Cygnus.
March 12, 2007... Cygnus Business Media (chart on previous page), a company that went through a lot in 2006, including a failed sale attempt by its private equity owners, ABRY Partners (min's b2b of 8/14), has appointed a new CGO (chief growth officer), J....

Balances Flat For Banking Books In '07.
March 12, 2007... BANKING/FINANCE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 ABA Banking Journal...

Healthcare: A Letter to the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
March 12, 2007... Following an article from last month on the healthcare IT space, PERQ/HCI, a reserch company mentioned, requested that we print the following letter: Good afternoon Mr. Greenfield, I am writing to alert you to erroneous information...

Podcasting for the Masses.
March 12, 2007... I am a big booster of podcasting for business, if only because I myself have discovered how easily these on-demand audio programs can slip into my daily scan of business news. Oh, if only everyone were more like me. If you use an iPod with...

Pharm Books Get A Booster Shot In January.(Table)
March 12, 2007... PHARMACEUTICAL AD PAGES AND REVENUES (JANUARY 2006/2005) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 Chain Drug Review (Racher) 94.54 ...

Eric Shanfelt To Leave Penton.(Penton Media Inc.)
March 19, 2007... Dynamic Duo Of Shibles/Shanfelt Not To Be The news that Eric Shanfelt, senior vice president of e-media at Penton, will be leaving the company, effective March 30 was not a total surprise. Shanfelt made the announcement himself on his...

Group Publishers: Breaking Down The Biggest Books.
March 19, 2007... The big books we covered in 2006 were...big, with Nielsen's The Hollywood Reporter leading the way over Reed's Variety, despite losing over 600 ad pages for the year. Not so fast: if Variety is added to its New York City edition, Variety...

Group Publishers' Report: Lebhar-Friedman.
March 19, 2007... "I have felt, in all markets, that the ad pages are becoming less of a factor," says J. Roger Friedman, CEO of Lebhar-Friedman. "We have a saying here: it's not share of [the ad page] market, it's share of wallet." Increasing numbers of...

Group Publishers' Report: Hanley-Wood.
March 19, 2007... Up almost 6% in a flat ad page market is good, almost startling. But being up in ad pages while maintaining balance is even better. Only six out of the 22 Hanley-Wood books we follow saw any ad page losses in 2006. According to Matt Flynn,...

Group Publishers' Report: Looking Ahead.
March 19, 2007... Next week in our coverage don't miss discussions of BusinessWeek- flagshipped McGraw-Hill with Glenn Goldberg, president of information and media, the new Nielsen, and a special look inside Ziff-Davis with CEO Bob Callahan. GROUP...

Microsoft Down On Print?
March 19, 2007... At the recent American Association of Advertising Agencies conference, held in Las Vegas from February 28 to March 2, Mich Mathews, a senior vice president of marketing at Microsoft announced that by 2010, a majority of Microsoft's $1...

Broadcast/Video Books Start 2007 In A 10% Hole.
March 19, 2007... BROADCAST/VIDEO AD PAGES AD PAGES AND REVENUES (JANUARY 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 Broadcast...

Parse And Serve.(target marketing of services by business-to-business websites)
March 19, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor For min, min's b2b, and min's Digital Media Report In the run up to our own min Day Summit on April 19, we have been scanning some of the Best of the Web finalists we announced recently. You can see...

The Future Of Media.(Media Multitasking Among American Youth)(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Young Americans are consuming an increasing amount of media "out of the corners of their eyes," states the summary of a Family Foundation study titled "Media Multitasking Among American Youth" printed in the April 2007 issue of The Atlantic....

Canon Loads Up.(acquisitions of Canon Communications Inc. and Dana Chase Publications)(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Canon Communications announced on March 13 the acquisition of Dana Chase Publications' Appliance magazine, along with Appliance News e-newsletter and APPLIANCE MAGAZINE.COM. This move helps solidify Canon's manufacturing position, bolstering...

Automotive News Up Big In Jan After Tough 2006.(Statistical table)
March 19, 2007... AUTOMOTIVE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages PUBLICATIONS YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 Aftermarket Business (Advanstar) ...

Time Warner Wins Rate Case.
March 26, 2007... Small Publishers to Face Major Postal Rate Increases The Postal Governors have decided to accept the recommendations from the Postal Regulatory Commission that will significantly raise postal rates for all periodicals publishers,...

Fastest Growing Group Publishers, Part II.
March 26, 2007... On the cover of our 3/12 issue, we published a chart ranking all group publishers by percent gain in ad pages in 2006. Though useful, that chart did not sort out individual titles that we had not tracked in 2005, giving some group publishers...

Group Publishers' Report: McGraw-Hill.
March 26, 2007... In print pages, BusinessWeek-flagshipped McGraw-Hill had a great year: up 2.74% in ad pages overall; and, only six out of the 19 books we tracked were in the red. But Glenn Goldberg, president of information and media at MH isn't bullish...

Group Publishers' Report: The Nielsen Company.(Company overview)
March 26, 2007... Note: This article was completed before min's b2b learned of the tragedy of Bob Krakoff's death on 3/22. For now, our hearts and prayers are with Bob's coworkers, colleagues, friends, and family. Few organizations in B2B media had as...

Group Publishers' Report: Ziff-Davis.
March 26, 2007... Willis-Stein closed its purchase of Ziff-Davis for $780 million in April of 2000, known to some as the month when the Internet bubble burst. PC Magazine had gone from being the size of a phone book in the mid-90s, to being merely fat in the...

Dual Tracks Of Meaning At OMMA West.(Online Media,Marketing and Advertising Conference and Expo)(online advertising)
March 26, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b, and min's Digital Media Report As I was walking out of the opening session of Mediapost's digital marketing conference OMMA West on Monday, I saw emcee Nick Nyhan being...

Nielsen's Successful Meetings Fast Out Of Gate.(periodical advertising)(Statistical table)
March 26, 2007... TRAVEL/LODGING/HOSPITALITY AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 Business Travel News (Nielsen) ...

Transport Books Down Double Digits In Jan.(magazine advertising)(Statistical table)
March 26, 2007... TRANSPORTATION AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 Air Cargo World...

Lightwave Up 187%!(periodical advertising)(Statistical table)
March 26, 2007... TELECOMMUNICATIONS AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 Cabling Installation &...

Quick Turnaround For Nussbaum.
March 26, 2007... After "stepping back and taking a deep breath," David Nussbaum, previously CEO of Penton Media, is back in the game. ABRY Partners--once Penton's private equity owners and currently Cygnus Business Media's private equity owners--will be...

ALM On The Block.
March 26, 2007... In a somewhat surprising move, Wasserstein & Co. has retained Credit Suisse to "explore strategic alternatives for its investment in ALM, including the possible sale of the company," according to a statement. ALM had a positive 2006,...

ABM Honors Editors At The Neals.
March 26, 2007... The luncheon honoring the winners of the 53rd annual Jesse H. Neal Awards was held at the Waldorf Astoria on 3/22. Many B2B players turned out, and min's b2b was able to catch up with Bob Carrigan, CEO of IDG, Matt Sweeney, CEO of...

IDG Promotes Blogger, Crawford To C-suite.(International Data Group Inc.'s new president Colin Crawford )(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Colin Crawford has been promoted by IDG to president and CEO of IDG's PC World and Mac World brands in the wake of the departure of 22-year IDG veteran Jeff Edman, who had been president and CEO. "It was an easy decision to appoint him to...