
Gifted Communications Time Inc just announced that InStyle Weddings won't make it down the aisle in 2010. This follows Condé Nast's Elegant Weddings and Modern Bride's annulments.
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Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings [Great Magazine Die-off]

Gifted Communications Vogue is going rogue...The magazine is looking into making the Vogue website available to paid subscribers.
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Blue State Digital helped Obama raise some $500 million online. Can it help Vogue cash in too?

Gifted Communications Watching this story closely. Time, Inc. is forming an alliance with Hearst and Condé Nast to create a company that will control how new media is developed for mobile technology and will make content available no matter which mobile device you have.
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Some of the magazine industry’s biggest names are on the verge of forming a new company that would allow them to take the digital future into their own hands.

Gifted Communications Check out our latest blog post "Oprah Will Give Product Coverage A Boost". It's a tongue-in-cheek look at the new possibilities of Oprah's stamp of approval on products.
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Today Oprah went on air and announced that her 25th season of her talk show will be her last. Some people are broken up about it. And you’d think with her influence on consumers, we’d be upset that we are losing a major outlet for product coverage. But we don’t think so.

Gifted Communications More good news! Another web launch with product coverage! Time launches Techland.com covering consumer tech gadgets and gaming. And yes, we love exclamation points :)
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The folks behind TIME magazine at TIME Inc. have just launched their new technology website dubbed Techland. The new website has many old faces from TIME on its

Gifted Communications Now some good news! Bonnie Fuller, who's edited YM, Cosmo, Marie Claire, Glamour, etc. has started a new media outlet called Hollywood Life and it has beauty and fashion PRODUCT COVERAGE!
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Thanks for coming and checking out the all-new HollywoodLife.com! Come on in! Yes, we have all the latest celebrity news, but that’s not all. We have fashion and beauty news plus looks for you to shop and wear. We have horoscopes and lots of photos and videos to look at!... Read more

Gifted Communications AP is laying off today...and Gawker is updating it's feed as it happens.
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The layoffs at the AP are indeed happening today. We're compiling a list of all the casualties—the ones we hear about and the ones reported elsewhere. Click through for our continuously updated death toll.

Gifted Communications Elle has come up with a new revenue source--by extending it's brand.
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Elle magazine continues its brand extension efforts in a new content project with Reebok.

Gifted Communications Hoping that magazine publishers read this article about creating an Android App for their publications. It's another way to be profitable in new media in this economy!
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With the enormously hyped launch of Verizon’s DROID smart phone last week, this “not-an-iPhone” alternative mobile platform is getting new scrutiny and increased developer interest. ...

Gifted Communications After all the cuts, management consultants and closures of publications at Condé Nast, it all comes together...Web is where it's at! Magazines are no longer just using their websites as a place to reprint their content, they are going for unique content. Check out this interesting story at FOLIO.
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A Q+A with senior vice president and chief revenue officer Drew Schutte.

Gifted Communications Oh say it ain't so! Monday's media wake-up call. Metropolitan Home is saying goodbye with it's December issue.
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The good news: Magazine ad pages are actually up in the fourth quarter for the first time in a dog's age. The bad news: Metropolitan Home won't be around to enjoy it. Hachette Filipacchi Media just announced ...

Gifted Communications Condé Nast is hiring a "turnaround expert to maximize the web. Media Ink blogger Rachel Sklar thinks it is too little too late...let's hope not! (p.s. love the characitures of Graydon Carter and Ms. Anna Wintour on the cover of NY Mag!)
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The headline in today's Media Ink column: Condé Nast hires crisis intervention expert My reaction: Are you freaking KIDDING me? Hire a consultant, sure. Hire a turnaround expert, someone who can help you maximize the web. ...

Gifted Communications Web & Blog List TREND ALERT! Yet another print publication is going to the web entirely. And this one is from the powerhouse of Reader's Digest Corp! (Note the irony of the headline on the cover of the magazine.)
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Reader’s Digest Association, Rick Warren pull plug on print edition in favor of the Web.

Gifted Communications Interesting idea, selling magazine content article by article, but wonder how circulation and readership will fare if this turns in to the "next itunes." Opinions? Please share.
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Three former Wall Street investment analysts—Ryan Klenovich, 24, Jian Chai, 26, and Steve DeWald, 24—plan to save the magazine business with a Web site called Maggwire.com. “We’re going to do for magazines what iTunes did for music,” Mr. ...

Gifted Communications COOL! Ebay-savvy retailers have a new online digital magazine to pitch products to, ebay's The Inside Source.
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Welcome to The Inside Source, a new online destination that harnesses the power of eBay’s global community to curate and deliver insights that illuminate trends, lifestyles, and of course, shopping! read more



























