9 posts and columns on Meredith

Most — But Not All — Big Magazine Publishers Sign On for Amazon’s Tablet

in Media on September 26, 2011 at 12:19 pm PT

Conde Nast, Hearst and Meredith are in for Wednesday’s launch. Time Inc. isn’t, and may not get there for a while.
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"Hulu For Magazines" Opens Its Android Newsstand

in Media on May 17, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

A year after Apple started selling digital magazines on the iPad, a consortium of publishers opens its own newsstand, via Google. It only works on some Samsung Galaxy tablets for now, but it’s a start.

“Hulu for Magazines” Gets a CEO: Good Luck, Morgan Guenther!

in Media on June 15, 2010 at 6:46 am PT

Remember Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for Magazines” joint venture that was supposed to help the big publishers negotiate with the likes of Apple and Amazon in the e-reader market? Now it has a CEO, who has a very tough job.

Now’s the Time, Finally: Publishers Announce Their “Hulu for Magazines.” Next Up: Building It.

in Media on December 8, 2009 at 6:01 am PT

You’ve been reading about it for a couple of months and now it’s finally official: The magazine industry is forming its own joint venture to control distribution of digital products that don’t yet exist.

Game On: Time Inc. Shows Off a Tabletized Sports Illustrated

in Media on December 2, 2009 at 8:24 am PT

Last month, Condé Nast played show-and-tell with its concept of a digitized magazine. Today it’s Time Inc.’s turn: The publisher is demoing a concept version of Sports Illustrated it says will be able to run on whatever tablet Apple or any else has up their sleeves.
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Strength in Numbers? News Corp. May Join Time Inc.’s “Hulu for Magazines.”

in Media on November 11, 2009 at 1:12 pm PT

While Rupert Murdoch is busy thumbing his nose at Google, he is making more friendly overtures to other media players. Sources tell me his News Corp. may join the digital e-reader storefront that Time Inc. and other magazine publishers are putting together.
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Mixed Signals From Meredith: Ad Sales Are Less Bad, but Still Lousy

in Media on October 29, 2009 at 6:28 am PT

So now that the economy is officially growing again, when will marketers start spending again? It can’t happen soon enough for ad-supported companies (and their employees). Today’s unpleasant news: Magazine heavyweight Meredith says things are getting better, but they’re still worse than last year, which was pretty bad to begin with.
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Magazine Giant Meredith: Our Ads Are Lousy, Too

in Media on October 29, 2008 at 5:48 am PT

Why is Time Inc. planning on shedding six percent of its staff? The new numbers released by the magazine publisher behind titles like Ladies’ Home Journal offer a grim clue: Ad revenues are down 18 percent in the last year, and the next quarter looks equally bad.