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• World Congress website launches with exclusive Super Early Bird savings

  The website for the 42^nd FIPP World Media Congress in Las Vegas, USA is now live along with our Super Early Bird offer with savings of more than $1,000 per ticket on final rates for individual bookings!

  Published 16 January 2019 FIPP News
• It’s nearly 2020 and print publishing still matters: How print and digital can build better subscriber experiences

  Rumours of the death of print media have been greatly exaggerated. While online publications have been experiencing tremendous growth in recent years, the fact is that 58 per cent of subscribers still describe themselves as primarily print-oriented, and 60-80 per cent of publisher revenues are still generated from print. It’s true that the majority of print-first subscribers are older, but that doesn’t mean younger audiences won’t pay for print. They will, and they do.

  Published 16 January 2019 Opinion
• RadioTimes.com attracts record visitor numbers

  RadioTimes.com had record-breaking audience numbers in December 2018, with 15.3 million unique users visiting the site.

  Published 15 January 2019 Industry News
• Behind Time magazine covers: a Q&A with DW Pine

  Chronicling the nation’s issues, events and history as it happens, Time magazine shies away from nothing and creates emotional impact in an instant. Time magazine is known for its iconic covers, something D.W. Pine, Time’s creative director, recently called “one of the most iconic pieces of real estate in journalism.”

  Published 14 January 2019 Features
• The Atlantic launches "Unthinkable": 50 Writers. 50 Essays. 50 moments that define the Trump presidency

  As we near the midpoint of the Trump presidency, The Atlantic has cataloged the 50 most norm-bending moments of the administration, analysed by 50 of The Atlantic’s writers and contributors. The digital report, “Unthinkable,” enumerates the incidents that would have been unimaginable under most any previous US president, Republican or Democratic.

  Published 14 January 2019 Industry News
• Rob Ristagno, founder and CEO of Sterling Woods, on the power of membership programmes

  At a time when media companies are seeking to find alternative sources of revenue to advertising, membership programmes have taken centre stage. Over the past couple of years we have seen The New York Times, The Guardian, Politico and others enjoy huge success in monetising readers in this way.

  Published 14 January 2019 Features
• How Thomas Cook resurrected a print magazine that died in 1939

  One of the greatest successes born from the new Thomas Cook Media and Partnerships division within the Thomas Cook travel agency was the rebirth of the printed magazine, The Excursionist, originally founded in 1851. Speaking at FIPP Insider in London, Ed Marr, group head of commercial publishing, media and partnerships at Thomas Cook Group, explained how an integrated multi-channel media offering within the holiday retail company made this possible.

  Published 14 January 2019 Features
• How Beano used data and insight to give digital life to a print brand kids love

  The longest running British children's comic magazine, Beano, has gone through a huge revolution in the past two years transforming itself from a purely print magazine into a global digital platform. At the recent FIPP Insider event in London, Hayley Granston, commercial MD, Beano Studios, UK, explained how they used data and insight to reinvent the iconic British brand for today’s tech savvy kids.

  Published 10 January 2019 Features
• How Italy’s most successful cooking website went multi-platform - all the way to print

  Spinning off a monthly print magazine in 2017 to create an additional revenue stream for Italy’s hugely popular cooking website, Giallo Zafferano, was such a significant success that it sold 2.5 million copies in the first year, says Daniela Cerrato, head of digital product marketing of the Italian magazine division at Mondadori Publishing Group.

  Published 07 January 2019 Features
• Five reasons to be in Berlin on 25-26 March: And why you should act now

  Launched in 2007, DIS (Digital Innovators’ Summit) is a premium international media innovation bringing together delegates, speakers and sponsors from around the world.

  Published 07 January 2019 FIPP News