5 ways to Engage people after the recession
In our series of guest author articles Marcelo Borges, co-founder of insight-2-performance adresses post recession actions to re-engage people in businesses. The recession has damaged national economies and businesses and produced traumatic effects for millions of people worldwide. In the UK alone 2.46 million are currently unemployed. According to the Office of National Statistics, in 2008 [...]
What if Stock Photography dies in 2010?
If you’re a creator or distributor of Stock Photogaphy here are some questions to ask at the beginning of 2010: What if the Stock Photography industry does not recover after the recession and publishers and traditional advertising agencies will spend even less on Stock Photography? What if Content mills like Demand Media accelerate their activities [...]
Zymmetrical stock photography agency closes shop
Midstock agency Zymmetrical has closed at the end of 2009. The website adress now takes clients and contributors to Flyerstarter, which is still run by Keith Tuomi. For more information here’s an active discussion on Microstockgroup. The Zymmetrical website shows the following message from Keith Tuomi: It is with deep regret we must announce Zymmetrical is [...]
Disney completes Marvel acquisition
The Walt Disney Company has completed the acquisition of Marvel that it announced in August of 2009. Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer said: “We believe the creative and business potential of this combination is substantial and can help us grow both our top and bottom line, leading to a significant increase in long-term [...]
428 magazines closed in the US in 2009
We’ve reported regularly about problems print media are facing and closures of magazine. Now there’s a glimpse on part of the damage from this US report. In 2009, 275 new magazines were launched while 428 ceased publication, according to MediaFinder.com. Regional magazines topped the list of new launches with 21 new titles, such as Maine [...]
More good news for advertising spend
Earlier this week Zenith Optimedia reported that the advertising downturn is slowing. This new Report from GroupM supports this assessment Global advertising spending is expected to emerge from the recession ahead of time, with growth of 0.8% in 2010, according to WPP’s media network GroupM. The prediction is close to the revised forecast made by [...]
Advertising downturn to slow in 2010
Zentith Optimedia has released its advertising outlook for 2010. It points to the Global advertising downturn slowing and a mild Global recovery in 2010 followed by all regions returning to growth in 2011. There are a number of other notable numbers in the report. First of all newspaper advertising will take a massive fall of 22.7% up [...]
December starts with more jobcuts
The first week of December another series of redundancies and closures of magazines were announced. The biggest cuts were at the Washington Times. The newspaper plans to lay off about 40 percent of its staff and make other changes as it battles falling circulation and advertising revenue. The reorganization will include laying of about 40 percent [...]
Magazines and Newspapers continue redundancies
Going into the last month of 2009 the redundancies at Newspapers and magazines are not showing signs of stopping. The Washington Post is closing its bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York as the money-losing newspaper retrenches to focus on politics and local news in the nation’s capital. via Washington Post closing U.S. bureaus [...]
Free London newspaper to close on Friday 13th
After the initial consultation period that started a few weeks ago it has now been confirmed that London Lite, a free London newspaper will close on friday the 13th of November. The annnouncement comes a month after another paper, the Evening Standard announced it would move to a free model, supported by advertising. This was widely [...]
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