Min's B to B articles from October 2005

Min's B to B archives from October 2005

Executive Turnover: CMP's Marshall Plan Is Over As Weitzner Takes Command.
October 3, 2005... As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. At CMP Media, Gary Marshall found that out last Monday (Sept. 23), when he was replaced as president/CEO by longtime CMP hand Steve Weitzner, the former COO. Precious little has been...

Trade Shows: First-Half Revenue Growth Tops +3.5%.
October 3, 2005... A slight decline in recorded second-quarter trade-show attendance wasn't enough to halt revenue growth in this critical b2b product category. Second- quarter spending on exhibitions rose +2.1% (to $2.39B), according to the second quarterly...

b2b Boxscores (July): In Banking Jump, July Ad Pages Rebound Off Of -11.38% June Slump.
October 3, 2005... BANKING/FINANCE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-July 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 ABA Banking Journal (Simmons...

ABM Jazzes Up CEBAs At Hot New Lincoln Center Site.(American Business Media )(Creative Excellence in Business Advertising)
October 3, 2005... American Business Media president/CEO Gordon Hughes may have found the right high-profile formula for the organization's decade-old Creative Excellence in Business Advertising (CEBA) awards last Thursday (Sept. 29), when more than 250 people...

b2b Boxscores (July): 1) Food Fight Festers As Troubled Field Separates The Haves From The Have-Nots.
October 3, 2005... It isn't so much that the Foodservice category of our Boxscores is down, although it is slightly (year-to-date ad pages: -2.33%/YTD ad revenue: -1.28%). These modest declines won't break anyone's back. What is more dramatic, however, is the...

b2b Boxscores (July): 2) Auto Sector Skids Into The Minus Zone--Again.
October 3, 2005... AUTOMOTIVE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-July 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages PUBLICATIONS YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 ABRN Automotive Body Repair News...

b2b Group Publishers (2005 vs. 2004)--Part 6 (Conclusion):.
October 3, 2005... GROUP PUBLISHERS JANUARY - JUNE (2005 vs. 2004) AD-PAGE REVIEW (Part 6) SLACK INC. - Title Ad Pages '05 Ocular Surgery News ...

Online Advertising: First-Half Web Ad $$$ Tops $5.8B; CPM, Performance Both Gain As Pricing Models.
October 3, 2005... Advertising performance still isn't the dominant pricing model in online advertising, which trumpets its accountability and attention to results. But it is gaining ground. However, so is the conventional cost-per-thousand (CPM) pricing...

b2b M&A Monitor: Media/Info Market Deals Soar 130% In $$$ Value In First Three Quarters.
October 10, 2005... With Advanstar Communications and 101communications both on the auction block (along with, possibly, VNU Business Media in whole or in part), it might seem that this would be a tough time to sell off b2b properties in a crowded market. But...

Steve Smith on New Media: "Googlization" Revisited: Publishers Talk Back to Search.
October 10, 2005... Over the summer, we pondered whether Google was friend or foe to online business information after the company showed off new research about search's critical role in business product buying decisions (min's b2b, 7/25/05). Google itself was...

b2b Boxscores (July): 25%+ Plunge Jolts Telecom Books In July.
October 10, 2005... Publishers in the Telecommunications market can't be at all happy with the July advertising results charted below, in which both ad pages and ad revenues plunged more than 25%. Tellingly, two-thirds of our group--11 out of 15 titles--lost ad...

b2b Boxscores (July): White-Hot Construction Trades Go Into Likely Post-Katrina Building Boom.
October 10, 2005... When we checked in right after Hurricane Katrina flattened New Orleans and the Mississippi coast, Peter Goldstone--president of construction b2b publishing powerhouse Hanley Wood Magazines--was still trying to get a handle on the business...

Boxscores (July 2005): Down Signs Plague Computing, Vertical/Special Interest Sectors.(Illustration)
October 10, 2005... COMPUTING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-July 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 Baseline (Ziff Davis) 251.33...

Boxscores (July 2005): Travel Sector Keeps Its Head Up Despite Airlines' Chapter 11 Filings.
October 10, 2005... With the bankruptcy filings late last month of Northwest Airlines and Delta Airlines, and with United and U.S. Airways teetering on the brink, it's probably safe to say that domestic airline advertising isn't a growth category for the travel...

VSS Survey Foresees +5.8% Compound Five-Year Growth In Total b2b Media Spending.
October 17, 2005... A common adage goes that b2b is among the first to feel the brunt of a media recession and among the last to benefit from the ensuing recovery. That certainly seems to be the case in the "Communications Industry Forecast (2005- 2009)" from...

Ad Categories (August): Building, Banking Set Brisk b2b Pace.
October 17, 2005... When it comes to advertising revenue growth in our b2b Boxscore categories, the Bs are where the action is. That's B as in Building/Construction and in Banking & Finance, two of the three strongest growth sectors through August among the 17...

Steve Smith on New Media: August Boxscores--Vacation? Bah! Humbug! August Eyeballs Beat the Summer Heat.
October 17, 2005... From the number of substantial gainers in our latest Boxscores, you'd think summer vacation was a washout. The tech sector started its traditional Fall eyeball rush (everyone looking to dump those IT budgets) early this year, as both...

b2b Boxscores (we complete July with): Electronics Capitalizes On Late First- Half Gains; Engineering Caves In July Jolt.
October 17, 2005... ENGINEERING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-July 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 Advanced Imaging (Cygnus) ...

Boxscores (August 2005): August Rebound Puts Developer/Tech Back On the Right Track.
October 17, 2005... When we last looked in on the Developer/Technical b2b sector (September 26, 2005), publishers were lamenting a disappointing July (ad pages and ad spending both down in double figures) that interrupted a mini-recovery in a once dominant...

Boxscores (August 2005): August Healthcare/Rx Declines Feel Like An Instant Replay of July Drops.
October 17, 2005... The month of June (ad pages: -16.37%/ad revenue: -16.08%) was unkind to our Healthcare/Pharmaceutical sector; July results (ad pages: -6.03%/ad revenue: -5.87%), while unremarkable, at least featured slimmer rates of decline that, if the...

Boxscores (August 2005): 2) Auto Sector Hits The Skids Again.
October 17, 2005... Higher gas prices are decimating the SUV sales on which domestic auto manufacturers have come to depend, but August's +10.04% ad revenue climb was quite a reversal of July's -12.69%. Four of eight are up YTD. AUTOMOTIVE AD PAGES AND...

People on the Move.(Ziff Davis Media appoints Mark Moyer)(Reed Business Information appoints Scott Falzone)(CMP Media appoints Bill Schweber )(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... Mark Moyer (ex-Intelsat) has returned to Ziff Davis Media, this time as senior VP/CFO. Moyer, who will report directly to chairman/CEO Bob Callahan, has ZD in his blood, having served under previous ownership as VP/controller from 1995 to...

This Week, min Magazine Names 2005's "21 Most Intriguing.".
October 17, 2005... In b2b, 2005 has been a most Intriguing year. Now it is our theme as well as, for the third year, min magazine's "21 Most Intriguing" affirms that magazines are a people business. That's very evident in some of our b2b personalities. The...

b2b M&A Monitor: Steep Prices For Web Properties Fuel Booming Third-Quarter Deal Deluge.(Acquisitions and mergers)
October 24, 2005... Once burned, twice shy. Or so they say. But if you thought media executives in the late 1990s had learned their lessons about wildly overpriced Internet properties on the mergers-and-acquisitions market, you may have to think again. According...

BIN Spin: August Holds Up Its End As b2b Claws Its Way Back To Media Good Times.
October 24, 2005... Even though publishers' ad rates go up like clockwork every January, it's been a long time since general inflation concerns crossed executives' radar screens. That could be changing, however, with a recent government report claiming that...

Steve Smith on New Media: Believe It, RSS Is Good For You...Really.(Real Simple Syndication)
October 24, 2005... Webmasters in the b2b space have long been caught between a rock and a hard place when it came to RSS (Real Simple Syndication) news feeds. Users now demand these feeds and, because Google, Yahoo!, and the Firefox browser offer easy ways to...

b2b Boxscores (August): Food Goes Flat, Hedges Bets As Post-Katrina Delivery Costs Mount.(Illustration)
October 24, 2005... Some months are known as the salad days, but August is usually called the dog days. That's pretty much how it went in our 29-title Foodservice group, with only minor increases in ad pages (+0.18%) and ad spending (+3.50) doing little to...

In b2b Spending Forecast, VSS Sees Gains All Around--Except In IT/Telecom Sector.
October 24, 2005... In its annual "Communications Industry Forecast," released earlier this month, investment banker (and Access Intelligence owner) Veronis Suhler Stevenson projected that, for the first time this century, all of its 15 major print advertising...

Boxscores (August 2005): Recent Gains Narrow Computing Sector's YTD Losses.(Illustration)
October 24, 2005... COMPUTING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-August 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 Baseline (Ziff Davis) ...

b2b Boxscores (August): Financial Info Sector Keeps Luring New Backers, Bankers.
October 24, 2005... When he formed Highline Media with private-equity support in 2003, president/CEO Andy Goodenough told us that both he and his backers, well-versed as they were in the financial industries, were bullish on their prospects going forward and...

At Primedia, Kelly Conlin Departs A Shrinking Ship.
October 31, 2005... The gradual dissolution of Primedia, which actually began about three years ago with the sale of a group of parenting/childcare magazines to Meredith Corp., continued last Monday (Oct. 24) with the departure of president/CEO Kelly Conlin...

Postal Rate Commission Ruling Bolsters Small b2bs--For Now, At Least.
October 31, 2005... The b2b and consumer sides of magazine publishing often try to work together on business and legislative issues. But not always. In a decision with big implications for small publications, the Postal Rate Commission last week rebuffed a...

b2b Boxscores (August): Building Books Keep On Booming.
October 31, 2005... It's been pretty tough sledding this year for many of the Boxscore categories charted in these pages. (For examples, see pages 4 and 7.) Not so in Building/Construction, where one month's results constantly seem to be outpacing another. For...

Boxscores (August 2005): Travel Sector Holds Breath to Gauge 'Cane Damage; Shippers Test Mixed Waters.
October 31, 2005... August isn't really prime time for Travel advertising, so the minus results charted below may not be cause for alarm. After all, even after August spending fell -4.44%, year-to-date revenue was still +2.18%. Of deeper concern going forward...

b2b Boxscore (August): Engineering Reverses July Jolt; Electronics Reverses July Jump.
October 31, 2005... ENGINEERING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-August 2005/2004) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title (Publisher) YTD 2005 YTD 2004 1 Advanced Imaging (Cygnus) ...

b2b Boxscores (August):Telecom Books Still Losing Dial Tone; Broadcast/Video Toes the Line.
October 31, 2005... It isn't often that a -15.70% plunge in ad revenue over one publishing month qualifies--loosely--as good news, but that's about what has happened with August results in our sagging Telecommunications field. After a jarring -25.30% revenue...

Boxscores (August 2005): Slicing & Dicing.
October 31, 2005... Welcome to a new monthly feature in min's b2b called "Slicing & Dicing." But it isn't a culinary report or a review of slasher movies. It's a slightly different way of looking at the b2b print ad Boxscore results we publish for each month....

B2B People on the Move.
October 31, 2005... Following the sudden departure of Kelly Conlin (ex-International Data Group) last week, Primedia chairman Dean Nelson has assumed the additional duties of president/CEO. Conlin, who had been in the post since October 21, 2003, has overseen a...

B2B Stockwatch: Rough Trading Week Leaves Primedia in the Losers Circle.
October 31, 2005... Our leaner and meaner Stockwatch--shorn of VerticalNet (no longer really b2b) and CMP Media's U.K.-based parent United Business Media (no longer traded on U.S. exchanges)--is back. But it isn't a very pretty picture, with seven of the nine...