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• Magazines and the attention economy

  Billionaires are not buying prestigious book publishers or TV channels. What is so special about magazines or newspaper periodicals?

  Published 18 October 2018 Opinion
• How India’s Worldwide Media went digital in only three years

  Miraculous growth in reach and income characterised the transformation of Worldwide Media in India from a print magazine publisher to a multi-platform, multi-income stream, media company. Delegates to the recent FIPP Asia conference in Wuhan, China, enjoyed an insight into how this was done in only three years when Deepak Lamba, chief executive officer, shared key aspects of this journey. 

  Published 17 October 2018 Features
• Download the FIPP Asia 2018 speaker presentations

  View and download the speaker presentations from the FIPP Asia international conference, 14-15 September, Wuhan, China.

  Published 10 October 2018 Insight News
• Adapting, not dying - how publishers monetise from brand extension, content syndication

  Publishers are generating revenue via content syndication and brand extension in an era where income from traditional international magazine syndication has been on a steady decline, delegates to the 6th FIPP Asia international conference and exhibition recently heard.

  Published 04 October 2018 Features
• Future CEO Zillah Byng-Thorne on growth in the US market

  This year, Future has been placing emphasis on strengthening their market position in key verticals, growing organically and through acquisitions, part of a strategy of global expansion and revenue diversification.

  Published 01 October 2018 Features
• How M&A helps shape innovation in magazine media

  The last five years has witnessed a major restructuring of the magazine media marketplace with a significant number of companies either consolidating their approach by acquiring rivals, or diversifying by buying technology, events or data businesses.

  Published 24 September 2018 Features
• James Hewes' key trends in publishing: Buying, selling and everything in-between

  This is the first of a series of articles sharing FIPP’s view of the key trends affecting the publishing industry.

  Published 21 September 2018 Opinion
• How Hearst re-imagines Runner's World and Bicycling for modern audience

  Since its acquisition of Rodale's portfolio of magazine titles in January, Hearst has been experimenting at Pennsylvania-based Runner's World and Bicycling, with new business models, new talent, new paper stock and bigger sizes, as well as proposed redesigns for both titles later this autumn. 

  Published 17 September 2018 Features
• When chief digital officers join the highest echelons of legacy publishing

  There were only a handful of digital officers around in legacy publishing two decades ago. Today, they are climbing to the highest echelons of publishing, and more recently digital officers have ascended to C-suite status with the creation of the title chief digital officer (CDO). Even more recently we have seen Troy Young, CDO at Hearst Magazines International take over as president of the entire business. Similarly, Wolfgang Blau, CDO at Condé Nast International, took over as president of CNI in August of last year. At the time the move was described by the company as an attempt to bring “digital authority” to the organisation’s leadership.

  Published 04 September 2018 Features
• Tearing up the rulebook - how independent magazines continue to shine

  A recent exhibition of independent magazines at Somerset House in London shed more light on the bright future of independent print publishing, than its rich history.

  Published 28 August 2018 Features