Min's B to B articles from September 2004

Min's B to B archives from September 2004

Highline Focuses on #2 Insurance Market with Insurance Advocate Buy.
September 13, 2004... Staying true to its plan to build a company specializing in insuranceindustry information and publishing, Highline Media announced last week its acquisition of Insurance Advocate, an 8,000-subscriber weekly covering the metropolitan New York...

Roscoe Smith (Ex-PBI Media) and Post Capital Partners Acquire Agent Media.(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Private investment firm Post Capital Partners LLC and Roscoe C. Smith III, a 30-year B2B publishing veteran with no previous experience in the insurance industry, acquired Clearwater, FL-based Agent Media Corp., publisher of Agent's Sales...

B2B Boxscores (June): As the Market Goes, So Go the Computer Reseller Pubs.(Illustration)
September 13, 2004... The current trend in technology was played out in the way advertising pages have been allotted among B2B publications covering computer/technology resellers and retailers in the first half of 2004 vs. 2003. The four publications tied to VARs...

B2B Ad Categories: July Is Hot Month for Pharmaceutical and Financial Sectors.(Illustration)
September 13, 2004... Although the summer brought no real relief to the generally flat print advertising market, the two hot spots were healthcare/pharmaceutical publications and the banking & finance group. After a generally positive first half, government...

B2B Boxscores (July): Competitors Duke It Out In Slow-Growing Healthcare Marketplace.(Illustration)
September 13, 2004... The hottest growth segment within the healthcare publications tracked by min's b2b has been pharmacy, which includes Chain Drug Review from Racher Press, Lebhar-Friedman's Drug Store News, Advanstar's Drug Topics, Pharmacy Times from Medical...

B2B New Media Report: Fast Adoption of Instant Messaging Requires A Speedy Response.(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Jessica, did ya hear? IM-ing is not just for chat-aholic, multi-tasking teens anymore. According to the latest Pew Internet and American Life research, instant messaging has woven its way into everyday business, with at-work IM users totaling...

B2B Publishers Need to Become Trusted Information Buddies.
September 13, 2004... But, how would business information providers get inside this walled infrastructure? One avenue is already being tested by WSJ.com, which last year introduced a news "bot" for use in the AOL IM system. An AOL user can send an IM message to...

Boxscores (July).(Illustration)
September 13, 2004... DEVELOPERS/TECHNICAL AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - July) PUBLICATIONS Ad Pages Ad Pages % Chg. YTD 2004 YTD 2003 YTD 1 Access VB SQL Advisor 68.5 99.33...

B2B People in the News.(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... With $70 million in Series B funding in its pocket since June, TechTarget grabbed competitor Computerworld's much-lauded editor-in-chief and brought on board a former IDG top executive to "collaborate to develop media properties and events for...

B2B Stockwatch.(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Based on Thursday's Market Close (9/9/2004) Company Symbol Close 1 Week % Chg. YTD %Chg Dow Jones & Co. DJ 40.71 -2.23% -28.82% Elsevier N.V. ENL 26.31 1.66% ...

ABM to B2B Publishers: Reserve the Fireworks but Look for a Better 2nd Half.
September 20, 2004... Is July's spike in B2B advertising pages a sign of the giant turnaround B2B publishers have been hoping for? "I wouldn't go that far," said Gordon Hughes, president and CEO of American Business Media, which showed a 6.9% increase in B2B ad...

Penton Media Names Two Group Publishers.(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... Teri Mollison, publisher of Penton's IndustryWeek and its related media properties, has become group publisher for the 10 titles in Penton's manufacturing, supply chain and metals groups. David Blansfield, who has been group publisher of the...

Tech, Engineering Job Sites Add Link to Security Clearance Community.(ClearanceJobs.com)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... Three months after expanding into the engineering recruiting field through a partnership with GlobalSpec.com, Dice Inc., a leading online technology-focused job board, has stretched its capabilities further through the acquisition of the assets...

B2B Boxscores (July): Summer Doldrums Take the Heat out of Government Pub Growth.(Illustration)
September 20, 2004... For all but one publication, the month of July 2004 did not keep pace with July 2003 numbers in either ad page count or ad revenues. However, on a year-to-date (YTD) basis, the majority of the publications in this group are ahead of last year's...

Profile in B2B Strategy: Reed Restages 10 Product-Oriented Tabloids as Innovators in Integrated Marketing.
September 20, 2004... In B2B publishing, the product tabloid tends to be at the lowest rung of the editorial evolutionary ladder, even though specialized industry audiences rely on trade publications to find the latest products and the makers of those products need...

B2B News in Brief.(business to business)
September 20, 2004... Next month, Ziff Davis Media's PC Magazine will publish a special 23rd issue entitled "Essential Guide to the Digital Home," with Intel Corp. as the lead advertiser. The special-concept edition is designed to demonstrate how technology is...

Boxscores (July).(Illustration)
September 20, 2004... ENGINEERING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-July) Ad Pages Ad Pages % Chg. PUBLICATIONS YTD 2004 YTD 2003 YTD 1 Advanced Imaging 118.91...

101 Communications Restages Syllabus as Campus Technology.(101 Communications)(Campus Technology)(Primedia's Customer Support Management)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... With its October 2004 issue, the 101 Communications publication known for 16 years as Syllabus, the technology magazine for higher education, will debut as Campus Technology with a new editor-in-chief, Katherine Grayson, at the helm. Grayson...

B2B Boxscores (July): Biggest Publications Slump Among A Generally Bouyant Electronics Group.(Business to business market)
September 20, 2004... More publications were up than down for the month of July in the electronics category, with 15 of 22 publications showing gains in ad pages in July and 14 registering revenue growth for the month versus July of 2003. Against those positive...

B2B People on the Move.(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... Wyatt Kash will join Government Computer News, published by Post Newsweek Tech Media, on October 4th. Kash succeeds Thomas R. Temin, GCN's editor for more than 12 years, who was promoted to the title of editor-in-chief of Post Newsweek Tech...

B2B Stockwatch.(Business to business )
September 20, 2004... Based on Thursday's Market Close (9/16/2004) Company Symbol Close 1 Week % Chg. Dow Jones & Co. DJ 41.79 0.75% Elsevier N.V. ENL 26.82 3.67% JupiterMedia Corp.1 JUPM ...

One-Year-Old B2B Media Co. to Launch Its First B2B Product.(Brief Article)
September 27, 2004... After spending its first year of business in custom publishing, Corona, CA-based B2B Media Co. is launching its own B2B brand, a title called Elearning! It is comprised of a quarterly print and electronic magazine, a Web site and an electronic...

Insur'Ed Buy Expands NUCO's Professional Publishing Division.(National Underwriter Company)(Brief Article)
September 27, 2004... In its second acquisition this month, Highline Media's National Underwriter Company (NUCO) bought Insur'Ed, a 10-year-old provider of live seminars for people preparing for their insurance license, continuing education for licensed brokers, and...

OgilvyOne Worldwide Nails Grand-Prize B2B Advertising Awards.
September 27, 2004... A b2b advertising campaign in the highest-spending category ($100,000 or more in the annual media budget) took the grand prize in American Business Media's 9th Annual Creative Excellence in Business Advertising (CEBA) Awards on September 21st,...

B2B Boxscores (July).(Business to business)(Illustration)
September 27, 2004... FOOD SERVICE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-July) Ad Pages Ad Pages % Chg. PUBLICATIONS YTD 2004 YTD 2003 YTD 1 Beverage Aisle 75 128 ...

B2B Boxscores: Positive July Does Not Outpace YTD Gains for Banking & Finance.(Illustration)
September 27, 2004... While the banking and finance group joined most other major B2B segments in positive July performance versus July '03, this category is one of only two (along with Government publications) in which July numbers were less positive than the...

B2B New Media: Split Down the Middle: July Viewing As Likely to Be Up as Down.(Business to business market)(Brief Article)
September 27, 2004... June wasn't too kind to business information sites, so July drops only deepened the pain for 22 of the sites on min's b2b's New Media Boxscore table. (See page 5.) CMP's ChannelWeb.com (-31.17% in Page Views in July) also was down in June...

Strange 'Webfellows:' WSJ.com Links Up with Consumer Reports Site.(Illustration)
September 27, 2004... B2B publishers who compete for audience mindshare with national consumer business publications like the Wall Street Journal should keep their eyes on a new content-sharing agreement between Wall Street Journal Online and ConsumerReports.org....

B2B People on the Move.(Brief Article)
September 27, 2004... With plans to double the frequency of the newly-created Vitals Network to eight times in 2005, Fairchild Publications has promoted Alyce Alston to a new title of vice president/group publisher in charge of W; W Jewelry; Vitals for Men, the...

B2B Stockwatch.(Business to business market)(Illustration)
September 27, 2004... Based on Thursday's Market Close (9/23/2004) Company Symbol Close 1 Week % Chg. YTD %Chg Dow Jones & Co. DJ 41.2 -1.41% -27.96% Elsevier N.V. ENL 26.6 -0.82% ...