Min's B to B articles from May 2007

Min's B to B archives from May 2007

McCracken Resigns From PC World.
May 7, 2007... Long-Time Editor Leaves Over Editorial Integrity Issue Kim Zetter of Wired News spoke with an editorial staff member who participated in an 80 minute meeting with Colin Crawford, CEO of PC World, to discuss Harry McCracken's resignation...

ABM Spring Meeting Transformation.(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... "This is a very different spring meeting," says Gordon Hughes, president and CEO of American Business Media, which is having its annual spring meeting this May 6-9 in Naples, Florida." While increasing its focus on social networking...

HDM Keeps Lead In Health IT Race Despite Push From HI.(SourceMedia's Health Data Management maintains lead in rankings by market share)(Industry overview)
May 7, 2007... Despite a 22.03% ad page decline in 2006, Sourcemedia's Health Data Management managed to keep the top market share spot in the five-book healthcare IT race (also ran: Merion's Advance for Health Information Executives, Nelson's Health...

Retraction.(Reprint)
May 7, 2007... The "What's Going on in Transport" article published April 23, 2007, has been retracted from min's b2b and MINONLINE.COM due to unsubstantiated reporting concerning Commonwealth Business Media. The article contained unwarranted accusations...

US Pharmacist And Drug Topics Post 20%+ Gains.
May 7, 2007... PHARMACEUTICAL AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-March 2007/2006) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2007 YTD 2006 1 Chain Drug Review (Racher) ...

1105 Government Tech Books Sagging.(1105 Government Information Group)(Financial report)
May 7, 2007... The powerful federal government tech group at 1105 Media is down a collective 18.15% in ad pages through the first quarter. Federal Computer Week, the flagship, is down 19.43%, while the new (by acquisition--min's b2b of 12/18) Washington...

Hanley Wood Strengthens Commercial Hold.
May 7, 2007... With the domestic housing market set for a slump, Hanley Wood is making good on its promise to diversify its portfolio and dive deeper into the commercial construction market (min's b2b of 3/19). In 2006 HW bought Architecture and...

Jim Casella: Is There Life After Reed?(Interview)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... "There is, although it's a different life," says Jim Casella, ex-vice chairman of Reed Business Information, who has since signed on as a sort of CEO- in-residence with Austin Ventures, a venture capital/PE firm based in Texas, to form Case...

David Nussbaum: Sundance Media Fest.
May 7, 2007... "Sundance is going very, very well," says David Nussbaum, ex-CEO of Penton Media, who has since joined up with ABRY Partners, PE-firm and ex-owners of Penton, to form Sundance Business Enterprises (min's b2b of 3/26). From this platform,...

Tony O'Brien: The Inside Man.(Interview)
May 7, 2007... When Tony O'Brien and Carr Davis took over as co-CEOs of Cygnus Business Media in August, industry was confused (min's b2b of 8/14). ABRY Partners, owners of Cygnus, had chosen two relative neophytes to business media--certainly strangers to...

Carr Davis: The Frontman.
May 7, 2007... The other co-CEO of Cygnus Business Media, Carr Davis, is, reportedly, the "sales" guy. In the better part of their first year as managers, Tony O'Brien's "institutional" focus has seemed to rule the company; the team has enacted many major...

Simon Carless: Editor And Publisher?!
May 7, 2007... Because he came up on the editorial side, Simon Carless, editor and publisher of CMP's Game Developer and GAMASUTRA.COM, knows his games. His favorites are esoteric non-hits from the dark days of gaming: Manic Miner, starring Miner Willy,...

Eric Mika: The New Director at THR.
May 7, 2007... Eric Mika, newly minted senior vice president and publishing director (read: publisher) of Nielsen's The Hollywood Reporter, is ready to bring his extensive international experience back to Hollywood. The plan: Mika, who has made his...

February Short-Circuits January Gains.
May 7, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report February traffic among min's b2b's boxscore headliners drew some retreats that only made the gainers more obvious. January had been a banner month...

Site Launches And Relaunches.
May 7, 2007... Many sites were launched and relaunched this past week. Here are some notes on three worth looking at. Vance's BEAUTYSCHOOLADVISOR.COM For the reader: "Everything you need to know about pursuing an exciting career in beauty!" (Says...

Illuminating Study from Promo Magazine.
May 7, 2007... In its annual study on interactive marketing, Penton's Promo Magazine printed several important numbers worth recounting based on the response of 263 marketers. In order of appearance: 1. The top two places that marketers put money online...

McCracken Back In At PC World.
May 14, 2007... Crawford Moved To Executive Role At IDG According to an internal memo written by IDG CEO Bob Carrigan, "Harry McCracken has decided to remain with PC World as vice president, editor-in- chief. Colin Crawford will be rejoining the IDG...

Focus On Ascend Food.
May 14, 2007... In December 2004, Overland Park-based Ascend Media bought Medical World Communications, a watershed acquisition: "It triples the size of our company," said CEO Cam Bishop in the 12/20/04 issue of min's b2b. Aside from anchoring Ascend's...

ABM Spring Meeting Wrap.
May 14, 2007... On May 6-9, over 300 top B2B media executives, vendor representatives, speakers, bankers, players, ex-players, consultants, and the media descended on Naples, Florida, for the annual ABM Spring Meeting. Through two days of panels, salons,...

Top 1st Quarter Percent Gainers Sliced And Diced.
May 14, 2007... TOP YTD TITLES (January - March 2007/2006) Sorted by Ad Page % gain Magazine 2007 2006 % 1 Technet 95 43.83 116.75 2 Sys Admin 158 74.33 ...

Mergers & Acquisitions Riding Robust M&A Market.
May 14, 2007... BANKING/FINANCE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - March 2007/2006) Title (Publisher) Ad YTD 2007 Pages Ad Pages YTD 2006 1 ABA Banking Journal (Simmons-Boardman) 82.49 82.51 2...

Roll that Beautiful B2B Footage.
May 14, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report At this point in the digital hype cycle, one has to wonder exactly how much video Web users can watch. The torrent of announcements is as relentless...

KM World Is The Only Bump In Slumping Engineering.
May 14, 2007... ENGINEERING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-March 2007/2006) Title (Publisher) Ad Pages YTD 2006 Ad Pages YTD 2005 1 Advanced Imaging (Cygnus) 66.12 73.92 2...

ABM Spring Meeting: Pay for Play Online?
May 14, 2007... For the first time in ABM Spring Meeting history, attendees were treated to two working lunches, the second of which featured Scott Schulman, president of Dow Jones Financial Services, publishers of The Wall Street Journal and...

ABM Spring Meeting: Walker Walks Alone.
May 14, 2007... Peggy Walker (a min magazine 21 Most Intriguing from 2006) is the first woman ever to be named to ABM executive committee. She will be treasurer for the organization for the next year. Walker is the only woman on ABM's board and, arguably,...

ABM Spring Meeting: Where is ALM?
May 14, 2007... Wasserstein's ALM is for sale, and Bill Pollack, CEO of the company and an ABM board member, was not at the conference. Presumably, Pollack and other executives are in Washington, where ALM is based, busy working on the deal. Meanwhile,...

ABM Spring Meeting: New Board Members.
May 14, 2007... The new executive committee at ABM consists of: * Chairman: Frank Anton, CEO, Hanley Wood * Vice Chairman: Gary Fitzgerald, chairman/CEO, Meister Media Worldwide * Secretary: Bob Carrigan, president/CEO, IDG * Treasurer: Peggy...

Source Buys Enthusiast Book Bundle.(acquisition of Source Interlink Co. and PRIMEDIA Inc. )
May 21, 2007... ~$1.2 Billion Price Tag Gives Industry Pause On Monday, May 14, Source Interlink, primarily a distribution and fulfillment company, agreed to buy Primedia's enthusiast media division--which includes Moter Trend and Automobile among over 70...

Advantage WW: Change Of Publishers In Wireless Race.
May 21, 2007... Advantage Business Media's big wireless mag--Wireless Week--is having a great year under the stewardship of new publisher, Holly Hoffer, who was poached from Cygnus last October by Advantage CEO, Richard Reiff (min's b2b of 11/6). WW is up...

Race Between 'Mag' And 'World' Heats Up.
May 21, 2007... In its recent earnings statement and report from the first quarter, Ziff Davis maintains that "PC Magazine continued to rank as the #1 personal computing magazine in the US based on ad pages." This is technically true. According to our...

New Book Makes Splash In SMT Market.
May 21, 2007... Until not too long ago, the SMT (surface mount technology--it's circuit boards) market was covered primarily by two books domestically: UP Media's Circuits Assembly, and PennWell's SMT Magazine. Lately, though, a new competitor has cropped...

CMP Dominates Developer Category.(CMP Technology )
May 21, 2007... CMP Technology operates six out of the eighteen books we follow in the developer space. Until CMP moved Intelligent Enterprise entirely online (min's b2b of 1/22), the company represented seven out of nineteen books in the category. ...

Site Launches And Relaunches.(e.Republic and Penton's websites)
May 21, 2007... e.Republic's GOVTECH.COM's GTtv For the reader: "Part of our continued commitment to bring more information to users in unique and useful ways and tap into the power of our full breadth of content in print, research and online," said...

Getting Down To AllBusiness.
May 21, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report Web veterans will recall the original ALLBUSINESS.COM, one of several business resources that vied for the elusive, theoretically lucrative small and...

McCracken Takes Editorial Integrity To The Big Time.(Editorial)(Brief article)
May 21, 2007... David Joachim, technology reporter for the New York Times, discusses the McCracken/Crawford dustup in a May 14 article entitled "A Nod to Journalistic Integrity Is Seen in an Editor's Return." Highlights: * "'I was on the brink of...

Top Magazines Of The Year--In Ad Pages.
May 21, 2007... TOP TITLES (JANUARY-MARCH 2007/2006) Sorted by Top Ad Pages Magazine 2007 2006 % 1 Automotive News 702.55 554.57 26.68 2 EE Times 673.51 695.71 -3.19 3 Travel Weekly ...

Audience Measurement Questions.
May 28, 2007... And Answers--IAB, comScore, Nielsen//NetRatings Talk it Out This meeting was a good first step in standardizing Internet metrics. Hosted by the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the two largest interactive audience measurement companies and...

Cerberus Buys Ailing Chrysler--Will it Affect B2B Ads?
May 28, 2007... Two important interested parties say, "no, not really." Both Dave Marlowe, associate publisher at Hearst's Motor, and Terri McMenamin, publisher of Advanstar's Motor Age don't think that the Cerberus/Chrysler deal will impact their books,...

Meeting Book Market Battle.
May 28, 2007... The market for meetings books grew by 14.46% pages in the first quarter of 2007 (almost 120 pages), and three out of four books in this space are up in double digits: * Penton's Corporate Meetings & Incentives is up 17.02% in ad pages...

SOS: All Broadcast Books Down--Except TV Tech.
May 28, 2007... Every book we follow in the broadcast category is down in ad pages in the first quarter, except IMAS's TV Technology. In fact, of all the books that are down, only two are down in single digits, while the rest are seeing double digit losses....

Horizontal Logistics Books See Market Slip in Q1.
May 28, 2007... The market for horizontal logistics pages in Q1 fell 11.81%, from 627.93 pages to 553.8 pages. The reasons, according to the various publishers: "The industry is starting to understand that online marketing will work. Creating online...

M&A Wrap: Custom Movement.
May 28, 2007... Lots of custom publishing action in this month's M&A report. Custom publisher McMurry buys Contact Designs, and Sunshine buys True North Custom Publishing. Lori Rosen, executive director of the Custom Publishing Council, is excited about...

CBS Gets Hip or Savvy?
May 28, 2007... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report In a curious move, CBS Interactive purchased the video podcast Wallstrip last week. The business vodcast is only six months old, but its sassy and...

Top Gainers in March.(Statistical table)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... TOP TITLES IN MARCH (2007/2006) Sorted by Ad Page % Gain Magazine 2007 2006 % 1 Healthcare Informatics 76.94 28.02 174.59 2 Technet 49.5 18.83 162.88 3 Semiconductor...