Cepic Congress Registration Opens, Moderating New Media Day
The Cepic Congress 2011, which will take place in Istanbul from18 to 21 May, has opened for registration over the week-end. I am thankful for having been asked to moderate the second edition of the ‘New Media’ day and I’m looking forward to bring together a group of great speakers, panels and contributors in collaboration [...]
Golden Drum Advertising festival day four
At the evening ceremony the first PR winners in the history of the festival were presented. Awards were granted in 10 out of 19 categories. Grand Prix winner is SCHERF COMMUNICATIONS agency from Israel for Israeli Water Crisis campaign in the Government relations and public affairs category. Besides that there have been 7 Golden Drum [...]
2009 Media revenue; bankruptcy and decline
In this Advertising Age article there is yet more doom and gloom to report. Revenues are down and over 10% of the “Media 100″ out of business companies are looking at the second half of the year for better results. So not only was last year’s Media 100 revenue growth the lowest since 1991, this [...]
China will invest Billions of dollars setting up Media giants
While Media companies expect revenue growth to come from China over the coming years the Chinese government is planning to accelerate that process. “China plans to spend billions of dollars in the next few years to develop media and entertainment companies that it hopes can compete with global giants like the News Corporation and Time [...]
Newsy wants to package news online
With Newsy announcing their Iphone application today I checked out the site of this new company (it’s still in Beta) that tries to find a new businessmodel for licensing news. With publishers struggling to monetize their online content the demand for new models has been strong. From companies that are allready providing tools to re-license [...]
Daily mail still cutting staff following heavy falls in advertising revenues.
Today, parent company Daily Mail and General Trust revealed it had axed 200 jobs since 30 June, reducing its total staff by more than 1,500 over the 11-month period. via Daily Mail: four subs take redundancy as group reveals 200 jobs cut since July | Media | guardian.co.uk.
Not everyone likes Twitter
Soon after, those pangs of envy shifted to cold resentment. How lucky to not have your e-mail inbox crammed with random mindless publicists, acquaintances and even friends inviting you to join them or follow them on Twitter. It was bad enough having the world invite you to be “LinkedIn”, but the daily dilemma of what [...]
Condé Nast preparing for 25% cost cutting
Condé Nast is inching closer to slashing costs at its magazines, as editors and publishers begin preparing their 2010 budgets following meetings with Chief Operating Officer John Bellando. The actual cost-cutting could begin as early as mid to late October at some titles, according to several people with knowledge of the situation. The meetings with [...]
Havas revenues down 9.2%
Havas Group reported a 9.2% drop in organic revenue for the second quarter of 2009. Overall for the first half the drop in organic revenue was 8.5%. The digital business did report growth of 5% for the first half of 2009. This now makes up 16.4% of the groups revenue.
Monocle making ‘old media’ successful
This article in the Independent explores the success of Wallpaper founder and columnist Tyler Brule with his new magazine Monocle. The magazine has not only increased its paid readership in tough times for printed media but is also expanding to retail. They have now opened 5 Monocle branded shops. Brule explains what he believes is [...]
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