There are some interesting comments cropping up on Retail Week's blog about its plan to charge readers £150 and put some online content behind a pay wall on November 13. In the blog post Retail Week editor Tim Danaher makes his pitch to the magazine readers telling them about Emap's plans to...
First it was the New York Times and now Rupert Murdoch has hinted that News Corporation may not hit its year end deadline to implement paid content. Murdoch, who owns the Times and the Sun, Wall Street Journal and New York Post (what a great front page; great game), told reporters that he can not promise...
This week is officially deemed paid content week (again), but yesterday unlike most weeks things happened. The New York Times said it was struggling to decide; Emap came out and (boldly) said it's charging £150; and a VC guy said newspapers need less than 5% of customers to pay. Bonus. Venture capitalist...
Bauer’s decision to close Arena today shuts the chapter on a 22-year-old rollercoaster ride never before seen in men’s magazines. When Arena first hit the newsstands in the winter of 1986 the UK and its media was a very different place. The year had started with the unveiling of ambitious plans to connect...
No, not Jack Bauer, he couldn't buy anything as he's in jail. H Bauer, the German media bods have bought Emap's radio and magazine arm as well as their shareholding in the Emap-C4 joint-venture Box TV (that runs all the music TV channels). The radio side was valued at £422m. The deal's...
So, i'm sitting here at Deegan Towers listening to the newly launched <a href="http://www.heatradio.co.uk">Heat Radio</a>. Well, that should probably be re-launched as a non-stop music version's been on-air for about two years. The launch at 2pm today, is the culmination...
There's been a great deal of discussion recently about EMAP demerging its business or selling off chunks to anyone with a large enough cheque. The nature of EMAP's business is going to make that difficult for whoever's going to cast an eye over the main consumer brands. EMAP has led the way...
With Mike Soutar announcing plans for a free men's weekly magazine there has been a lot of speculation about what kind of magazine it might be and whether it poses a serious challenge to the paid-for men's titles. We have spent much time around Haymarket talking about it. Craig Smith wrote on...
No surprise... a couple of months after appointing an editor with little experience Emap is shopping its reader-lite men's title Arena around to buyers. According to Media Week, Development Hell, Factory Media and Dennis Publishing are all potential buyers. Although the price is going to have to...
Congratulations to Grazia PR team at Emap on the three page advertorial in the Observer. Nice work. The piece in Observer Woman magazine waxed lyrical on the current star performer in the women's magazine market. The success of Grazia with its impressive ABC (up 20% to 210,200) performance has been...
