Magazine news & analysis

Time Out includes The Beano comic in MasterCard tie-up

Time Out magazine today includes a special edition Beano comic book, created to promote The Southbank Festival of Neighbourhood in association with MasterCard.

MEDIA360: Highlights from the conference

Delegates from EasyJet, The Week and Ocean Outdoor reflect on last week's Media 360 event and awards.

Esquire web revamp brings 37% traffic rise

Esquire, Hearst's monthly men's magazine, has revamped its website, in the first step of the brand's digital strategy overhaul.

Phil Georgiadis to chair Campaign Media Awards judging 2013

Phil Georgiadis, chairman of Walker Media, will take the lead role as chairman of the judges for this year's Campaign Media Awards.

Time Out delays publication after fire destroys 225,000 magazines

Time Out magazine has delayed distribution of this week's magazine after hundreds of thousands of copies perished in a warehouse fire yesterday.

Vigour Mag challenges Men's Health with 100,000 pilot copies

Vigour Mag, a new free men's health magazine run by former Telegraph journalist Charlie Norton, will distribute 100,000 copies of a test issue at London stations today.

Bauer promotes Martin Luck to commercial director of TV

Bauer Media UK has promoted its TV controller Martin Luck to commercial director of TV.

Future plots 50% digital revenues

Future, the specialist magazine publisher, plans to generate at least half of its revenues from digital business in future, according to Mark Wood, the UK chief executive.

Bauer promotes Carvosso to group MD London Lifestyle

Bauer Media UK has promoted Abby Carvosso, managing director of lifestyle and advertising, to the position of group managing director of London Lifestyle, with responsibility for its London-based magazines.

Yes, magazines 'work', but show us the data

Last week's PPA conference covered a lot of old ground, yet there is an appetite for more insight, Louise Ridley writes.

Condé Nast scraps Easy Living magazine after eight years

Condé Nast is closing its Easy Living print edition, despite being the only paid-for glossy magazine from a major publisher to increase its circulation in the last six months of 2012.

PPA PUBLISHING+: Publishers 'must become retailers' says Immediate chief

Immediate Media will increasingly generate income from selling third-party products online, according to the publisher's chief executive Tom Bureau who said the new Radio Times travel offers should bring in £5m a year.

PPA's McIlheney wages war on magazine cynics

The magazine trade body's chief executive argues the print versus digital debate does a disservice to today's titles.

PPA PUBLISHING+: copyright laws 'not an attack on publishers' says Ed Vaizey

Ed Vaizey, the culture minister, today defended changes to UK copyright law, saying the Government wanted to create "a thriving publishing industry based on IP".

PPA PUBLISHING+: Print still brings in 78% of consumer mag revenue

Consumer magazine publishers still generate a massive 78% of their total revenues from their print products, according the fourth annual Publishing Futures report.

Media360 Awards: Who has been the best media agency, leader and advertiser of the decade? You decide...

As Media360 turns 10 years old, we will be celebrating the very best in the business with our Decade of Achievement Awards. Here is your chance to decide who is crowned the media leader, media agency, and best advertiser of the decade, and who wins t...

ShortLlist Media promotes four in group restructure

Shortlist Media, publisher of ShortList, ShortList Mode and Stylist, has made four senior promotions as part of a wider restructure of its publishing, commercial and digital operations.

Mondadori charged for 'invasion of privacy' over topless Duchess snaps

Ernesto Mauri, the chief executive of European publisher Mondadori, which licences Closer magazine from Bauer Media, has been charged with "invasion of privacy" following topless photographs taken of the Duchess of Cambridge, published last September...

Journalism is changing from how we're reading to how much we're reading

Whenever I m tempted to slag off some Big Dumb Agency move, I think of something Clay Shirky wrote, comparing our era to the advent of publishing: "We re collectively living through the 1500s, when it s easier to see what s broken than what will repl...