Min's B to B articles from September 2006

Min's B to B archives from September 2006

Group Publishers' Report: Eye on IDG and McGraw-Hill.
September 11, 2006... International Data Group is showing modest increases in ad pages over the first six months of this year. Many of their major publications (Network World and PC World most notably) are down slightly--due in part to migration from print to...

PC World Relaunches Web Site--B2B Pubs Should Take Notes.
September 11, 2006... The new site, still PCWorld.com, which was launched on July 27 and took about 18 months to complete, is not just a "re-skinning" of the old site, according to Harry McCracken, vice president and editor-in-chief at PC World. The site...

Ziff's Baseline and CIO Insight Operating at High Speed.
September 11, 2006... In a channel that's down (5.14% year-to-date in ad pages), Ziff Davis's Baseline and CIO Insight--books that cover strategies, tips and news for top level information executives--are both up for the year (37.11% and 12.72%, respectively)....

July Preview: Ad Pages Sliced, Diced, and Plated.
September 11, 2006... Three books that have received a lot of (deserved) attention this year are SEMA News, Pro AV and Computerworld. All are showing growth in markets that are stagnant or shrinking. You can read glean the lessons of their success in the 8/28,...

QuickView.(McMurry Inc. appoints Chris McMurry as president and chief executive officer)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... Chris McMurry, President and CEO of McMurry, Inc. Most CEOs don't have second jobs. Chris McMurry, president and CEO of McMurry, Inc.--the fast-growing custom publisher (see min's b2b of 6/26 at minonline.com)--is different. By day, he...

News and Notes.(Tom McIntyre, long-time publisher of Food Management resigns.)(Circulation expert Karlene Lukovitz left her position as VP of communications at BPA.)(Netline has named Craig Pitcher the new director of their media services division.)
September 11, 2006... VNU Expands Contract into China When Jonathan Ross proposed the launch of VNU Business Media Asia in 2004, the goal was to secure new revenue through new products. Jon Ross is now the CEO of VNU BMA and has launched their first magazine,...

William B. Ziff, Jr. (1930-2006) Was a Genius...(Editorial)(In memoriam)
September 18, 2006... By Steve Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Ziff Communications (ne Ziff-Davis) was his life, but in essence, Bill Ziff's 1953-1994 magazine career led three lives. For the first 31 years, Ziff built thriving consumer (Boating/Car and Driver/Modern...

...22 Years Later, Peter Diamandis Says Ziff Didn't Give Him a Raw Deal...
September 18, 2006... As the 1982-1987 president of then-Woman's Day-flagshipped CBS Magazines, Diamandis--with CBS Publishing president Peter Derow (later at Institutional Investor)--negotiated the circa-$350 million purchase of Bill Ziff's consumer magazines in...

...And, To Bill Ziff, Cancer Was a Big Deal...
September 18, 2006... On December 20, 1989, we cited minsiders in reporting that Ziff "was fully recovered from prostate cancer" at the time of the 1984 sales to CBS/NC, with the implication that the disease was a minor factor in the decision. Incensed Ziff to...

Group Publishers' Report: PennWell-Oiled Machine & RBI.
September 18, 2006... What's bad news for Hummer owners is good news for PennWell. Exxon Mobil saw a net income of $9.9 billion in the first quarter this year, the most any American company has ever made in a quarter. They were not alone. BP, Dutch Royal Shell,...

Consolidation Continues Among Semiconductor Pubs.
September 18, 2006... These are tough times for the semiconductor industry and the publications that cover it. But a recent shakeout among the chip magazines may ease some of the pressure. Trying to track the changes, closures and new alliances in the space is...

Healthcare Informatics Is Feeling Better, Thank You.
September 18, 2006... All year long the poorest performer among the 15 publications we track in the world of medicine has been Healthcare Informatics, a monthly owned by the Medquest Communications division of Vendome Group LLC. Things weren't any different in...

ChemWeek Uses Web 2.0 to Enhance China Conference.
September 18, 2006... Twelve years ago, Access Intelligence's Chemical Week (min's b2b and CW are both Access Intelligence properties), started a trade conference in China aimed at bringing executives from America's and Europe's chemical industries together with...

News and Notes.(Company overview)
September 18, 2006... Major Makeover at Advantage Less than three months after forming Advantage Media with Catalyst Investors (min's b2b of 7/10), Rich Reiff, CEO, and company have made some major changes. Fourteen people have been let go, including Tod...

Group Pubs' Coverage Concluded: Looking Through Prism, Sourcemedia's Competition, And The New VNU.
September 25, 2006... Since last August, when U.S. Equity Partners, helmed by Bruce Wasserstein, paid $385 million for what is now known as Prism Business Media, slowing print performance has been on the mind of many publishing executives. At Prism, ad pages are...

Fits and Starts: July Traffic Ride, the Summer Roller-Coaster.(Statistical table)
September 25, 2006... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor The mid-summer doldrums hit Web traffic to business information sites this year as predictably as a hot afternoon thunderstorm. But in most sectors there was remarkable variation, suggesting that...

Financing and Planning for Financial Planning Journal.
September 25, 2006... It's probably to be expected that a publication about financial planning would do a little financial planning. And now that the Journal of Financial Planning has begun doing exactly that, the magazine has seen a considerable reversal in...

Local Focus Leads To Top Spots Among Government Publications.
September 25, 2006... Amid a slowdown in federal spending on technology, it's almost inevitable that a magazine with a local, rather than national, focus would take the top spot among government publications. With no cash to be had in Washington, tech advertisers...

A Dealmaker Returns To Magazines With Dealmaker.(Doubledown Media)(Brief article)
September 25, 2006... There's something almost perfect--poetic symmetry, if you will--when a seasoned player who has made a fortune in deals involving magazines invests in a company that plans to publish a magazine aimed at what The New York Times called "older,...

Headline Wars: The New RSS Economy.
September 25, 2006... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor The popularity of RSS feeds has taken off in the past year, in large part because Yahoo! and Google helped make the format invisible to ordinary users. Personalized pages at both portals help users...

George Lois Sharp As Ever At ABM's Cebas.(Creative Excellence in Business Advertising)(Brief article)
September 25, 2006... The only hitch in an otherwise wonderfully produced CEBA awards show last night (September 20) at Jazz at Lincoln Center was that Hall-of-Fame inductees had trouble finding a place to hold their pyramid-shaped statue while delivering their...

July Sliced and Diced.(Statistical table)(Brief article)
September 25, 2006... EE Times and FCW continue their banner years, coming in at numbers one and six on our top 20 list for July. Top July Ad pages PUBLISHER 2006 2005 % 1 EE TIMES 274.68 222.62 23.39 2...