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Time Inc.’s People magazine rolled out a bunch of new paid offerings Monday, ranging in price from $112 to $200 per year. And from now on, print subscribers who want access to the tablet edition will have to pay up.
When Digitas head Laura Lang starts her new job as CEO of Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) in January, she’s not only going to be filling the nine mont…
Nine months after he fired Jack Griffin, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes has finally filled the most prominent empty chair at the me…
Magazine and news publishers who have not yet joined iOS Newsstand have lost out to the system’s early adopters, according to research data.
Next Issue Media, the digitized magazine and newspaper newsstand, has added several more titles from company backers Hearst and Time Inc. (N…
Google’s pending $400 million purchase of supply-side platform AdMeld has shown, there’s a lot of interest these days services that aim to p…
Publishers are once again rubbing their hands together over the new possibility of another, non-Apple-owned avenue for selling digital versi…
Big changes atop digital at two major news sites today: Kevin Krim, the head of Bloomberg.com, is leaving the company, while Jim Frederick,…
The value of being a weekly print brand in the online era has been in doubt for years, but Time magazine believes that it can retain relevan…
A few weeks after extending its “all access” subscription plans to Time magazine, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is working on creating tablet editio…
Time magazine is rolling out an “all access” subscription plan that gives current print subscribers complete use of the title’s content acro…
By and large, consumer magazine ad pages have been trending pretty well the past year, ekeing out slim gains amid advertisers’ continued mig…
Magazine publishers are putting a lot of faith in apps, building development teams and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars (in some ca…
With nearly 100 apps already in circulation, including Zinio digital replicas of all its 14 magazines, Hearst plans to issue a dozen more ap…
Among the usual suspects like Michael Connelly and James Patterson on the top 10 list of paid Kindle bestsellers this week was something of…
Barely six months into the job, former National Geographic Society publishing exec John Q. Griffin is leaving Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) by “mutu…
Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is making its first big digital hire since the Jack Griffin debacle ended Interactive Advertising Bureau head Randall…
CNNMoney, the online hub for Fortune and Money magazines, has overhauled its site to adjust to the look and feel of a tablet screen. In conj…
Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s filmed entertainment and publishing segments experienced a fairly uneven quarter as its networks business, through…
» How the Bin Laden announcement leaked out on Twitter. (Media Decoder)
Dish, Echostar (NSDQ: SATS) Settle Long-Running Patent D…
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Time (NYSE: TWX) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reach a “free content” deal; more possible deta…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is shuffling the management of its media properties: The company tells us it has hired Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.’s Ken Fuchs…
The surprise ouster of Jack Griffin as CEO of Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is also leading to his stepping down as chairman of the MPA, a post he t…
In a stunning turn of events, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes has fired Jack Griffin, who joined Time Inc. as the magazine publisher…
Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.’s decision to form a standalone “branded solutions” unit appears to be the final piece of the puzzle that CEO Jack Gri…
Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is continuing the restructuring that has started on the sales and marketing side with a few personnel changes in news…
Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jack Griffin and Interactive Advertising Bureau president and CEO Randall Rothenberg began talking about the job o…
This is probably the biggest change during Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jack Griffin’s three-month tenure: Randall Rothenberg, the president an…
The Atlantic magazine took a radical approach to surviving in the web era: It set out to deliberately disrupt its own business, rather than letting someone else do it. Traffic has climbed, revenues have almost doubled and it is profitable for the first time in years.
Less than three months since former Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP) exec Jack Griffin succeeded Ann Moore as Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.’s CEO, the mag…
Another big hire for Yahoo: Wayne Powers, the president of Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.’s Media Group, is joining Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) as its SVP for…
The revenue and profits for Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s cable networks HBO and Turner remained solid in Q3, as its magazines made gains in adv…
Like a lot of publishers over the past year, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) has been building up its marketing business as it looks for additional re…
Fresh from a huge $15 million funding round last month, sell-side optimizer AdMeld has hired Jason Kelly as chief media officer. Kelly was m…
Monica Ray, who had been managing Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.’s paid content strategy, is taking on a new job at Condé Nast. She has been named E…
» The People magazine iPad app, delayed due to a dispute with photographers, will be made available for free to print subscribers…
There has been a lot of doubt about publishers’ hopes that tablet devices could help return magazines and newspapers to the days when scarci…
Following last week’s news leak, here’s the official word… Jack Griffin, who stepped down as Meredith’s National Media Group president las…
Hours after Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) posted mixed results for its publishing unit, Time Inc. is preparing to announce that Jack Griffin, who…
Let’s get the easy stuff out of the way. Time.com didn’t go behind a paywall this week and there aren’t plans for that to happen. Technicall…
There have a been a number of platforms introduced in recent years to use the web to sell magazine subscriptions. But so far, one of the mos…
Right as the debate about the future of newsweeklies is at its loudest — with Newsweek being for sale — Time (NYSE: TWX) magazine has fill…
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) handily beat revenue and earnings estimates for the first quarter of 2010, with a profit increase of nearly 10 perce…
When Apple first revealed the iPhone back in 2007, many hardcore fans with a keen eye noticed that the images of the then-new smartphone device displayed a somewhat unusual timestamp. All official images released by Apple showed the time on the iPhone as 9:42.
Sports Illustrated has been the Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) tablet poster child for months but Time is first to market with an app. Time for iPhon…
Paul Greenberg (image, left) is leaving his job as EVP/GM at TV Guide Online to become digital president of Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.’s Lifestyl…
When a quarter is as rough as Q408 was for Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), anything decent is going to look pretty good in comparison. Comparing la…
Fortune magazine is bringing back Daniel Roth to serve as managing editor of the business mag’s website, a Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) rep told pa…
Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is buying social shopping site StyleFeeder to add more e-commerce to its magazine mix, starting with InStyle.com. No t…
While Time Inc. vet John Squires spent the last few months imagining the digital business model for magazines — and we expect official word…
Time Inc.’s Instyle Weddings has become the latest casualty of the magazine industry’s larger woes, Gawker reports. The quarterly offshoot o…
After weeks of talks and trial balloons, is Time Inc. actually close to signing a deal with other Conde Nast, Hearst and possibly other majo…
Updated: paidContent has confirmed that Time Inc.’s cuts have hit Essence magazine and Essence.com. The company confirmed that the web team…
With the magazine business hurting, Hearst, Time Inc. and Wenner Media are teaming up for a little self promotion. Mediaweek reports.
Despite reporting a revenue drop of 6 percent to $7.1 billion in Q3, a profit drop of 38 percent and confirming a $100 million charge for Q4…
The layoffs at Time Inc, intended to save about $100 million in costs, have begun, and the news group is the first, understandably. About 15…
The latest on anticipated Q4 cuts at Time Inc.: $100 million in savings is the goal, according to the NYT’s Stephanie Clifford. While we can…
Just as Bloomberg promises to turn BusinessWeek into a “true” weekly with more editorial, competitor Fortune is moving even further away fro…
Health.com, Time Inc.
Updated twice below: Everyone wants a Hulu now, nevermind that Hulu’s own long term future isn’t necessarily fully secure. First was Vevo, m…
Time.com hopes to leverage the popularity of its Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages with advertisers by crafting co-branded sponsorships. T…
Ever wanted to run your own iconic photo-journalism magazine? Soon, web users will get to print their own, personalized edition of Life, as…
After 32 years,Time Inc. will close Southern Accents with the September/October 2009 issue, the company said. The mag’s website, SouthernAcc…
Last year around this time, Time Inc. promised a web-based subscription service, Maghound, by the fall. But as that anniversary nears, Magho…
One of the things I’ve always found frustrating about Google (s goog) is its inability to perform a search and then filter…
According to a staff memo from Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) Chairman and CEO Ann Moore (pictured, right), EVP John Squires has a new summer job: fi…
Now that Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is finally spinning off AOL, its publishing division could be the next to go, says Pali Research analyst Ri…
So I understand that there are plenty of worthy causes out there that need me to stand up for them more than…
Major news sites are falling all over each other to release their own iPhone apps lately. Many hope to get some incremental ad revenue now,…
Jeff Price has resigned as president of Sports Illustrated Digital effective immediately. Vivek Shah has been overseeing SI Digital as group…
With all the talk about building up content site paywalls, major magazine publishers are already taking steps to raise the original pay wall…
One of primary reasons display advertising has been trending negative is because the ads are so easy to ignore. Most users have pop-up bloc…
I was a little startled by the headline at BI proclaiming that Time Inc. would start charging for online content. The fine print is a little…
Aside from the poor state of the economy and the media business in general, the downward spiral of display ad spending has pretty much been…
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) reported Q408 results this morning that underscored the increasing difficulty ad-driven media companies are facing a…
— Linden Lab: Judy Wade has joined the Second Life developer as VP of strategy and emerging business; Brian Michon has joined as VP of core…
That’s what it looks like, as Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has slated a press conference at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York on that date. The…
Magazine publishers can expect an even tougher year of declining ad pages. And the promise of digital ad sales someday making up for print l…
Time Inc. will lay off 250 staffers today as part of the 600 job cuts announced last month, the NY Post reports, citing unidentified sources…
The never-ending effort to make every possible cent from Life magazine continues with today’s launch of the Life Photo Archive on Google (NS…
Time Warner’s Q3 earnings call is underway, with CEO Jeff Bewkes pushing the mega-media company’s resiliency as the theme of the day. You co…
Time has released its 50 Best Inventions of 2008 list and a full dozen of the spots are occupied by either cleantech…
Time Inc. has shuffled some executives from its Entertainment and People groups to head the newly formed Style and Entertainment unit. Paul…
Today was a memo day at Time Inc. We mentioned that the digital head of Time Inc. Ned Desmond was leaving. Now, some more details on newly f…
More fallout from the changes at Time Inc: Ned Desmond, the longtime head of Time Inc’s digital efforts, is leaving the company after 22 yea…
1. DNA tests. 2. Electric cars 3. An unmanned moonship. 5. The world’s biggest particle accelerator. What are we missing here? No.…
The big issue for magazines these days how to determine the level of “integration” between the print and the digital side. Rumors have been…
The big question following the last few weeks following the enormous swings of the financial markets is this: how bad is it going to be? Mic…
As magazine ad pages continued to slip this year and last, digital’s growth appeared to help offset the print losses at several publishers,…
Time Inc has quietly launched its much delayed and much-anticipated online magazine subscription website Maghound. The service, in beta, bor…
Last year, Time.com and Time magazine leapfrogged redesigns. Today, the two are finally in sync with the relaunch of a site that didn’t refl…
Diane Mermigas has a blistering column about Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) failures in digital media, and takes them to task for lacking the str…
With the magazine business suffering almost as badly as the newspaper industry, it’s probably a good time for titles to experiment with ad s…
The backlash against remnant ad networks appears to be gaining, as Time Inc. is considering whether to move towards the model offered by pre…
Huh. No, really…get school-aged kids to flog magazines door to door to bolster revenues. Time Inc. has bought out QSP, a school and youth…
A few deeper details on Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) latest quarter can be found in the 10-Q the company has just filed with the SEC:
— Time…
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) reported Q2 revenue of $11.55 billion, ahead of estimates of $11.45 billion, and a 5 percent increase from $10.98 bi…
Celebrity-oriented news sites have grown substantially over the past year — *comScore* says the category’s traffic has grown 31 percent fro…
Time Inc’s long-in-development magazine subscription website Maghound, which borrows concepts heavily from Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), is slated t…
Apparently SheKnows hasn’t bought every site covering the offspring of the rich and famous…. Time Inc.’s People.com has dove into the acqu…
Time Inc. is relaunching its Health.com brand on Monday, tapping into the growing online health news and community trend. The site is tied t…
At our recently concluded EconSM conference in LA, I did a short video interview with one of our speakers, Jeff Price, the president of SI D…
Time Inc. digital revenues grew $20 million year-over-year, thanks mainly to the interactive efforts of Sports Illustrated and CNNMoney, Fol…
You’re reading it here first … the tech-related members of the much-hyped Time 100 due to be announced on Time.com overnight (check back h…
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has announced Q1 revenue of $11.4 billion, a 2 percent increase from $11.18 billion in the year-ago period. Total op…
Time Inc. has acquired a 51 percent stake in MedioTiempo, a Mexican soccer site that claims to be the biggest sports site in the country. Th…
A few feet from where I’m typing this lies 40 years worth of Rolling Stone — not in stacks of paper, but DVDs nestled in a box meant to res…
It’s been several months since Time Inc. closed down Business 2.0 as a print mag and folded it into Fortune. But Vivek Shah, president, Fort…
— Wall Street Journal: Another ESPN vet joins Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) … Andrew Sippel moves to WSJ as VP-marketing and business development…
The fascination with Rupert Murdoch was center stage during a discussion on old media vs. new media at the SIIA Information Industry Summit.…
CNNMoney.com, part of Time Inc, has relaunched the site, with a big emphasis on video. The relaunch comes a few days before Yahoo (NSDQ: YHO…
Fortune.com has redesigned its site, emphasizing the magazine and the brand much more than what it was/became under the CNNMoney.com umbrell…
Ann Moore, chairman and CEO of Time Inc., couldn’t be at our “Future of Business Media” conference in NYC two weeks ago, because it coincide…
Time Warner met expectations for Q307 with revenues of $11.6 billion, up 9 percent, and earnings of $0.30 per share. Profits dropped 53 perc…
— Break.com Solicits Videos From On-Strike Writers: Online video aggregator Break.com is courting TV and film writers currently out of work…
This chart below from a WSJ story is very instructive…serves as a good discussion point for our upcoming FOBM conference as well:
One i…
Thomas Weisel analyst Gordon Hodge has come out with a very detailed tome on Time Warner, spelling out the bullish case. The basic premise i…
As part of the reorganization taking place in the wake of the shuttering of new economy mag Business 2.0, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) will create…
We mentioned about Business 2.0 magazine’s closure last night, and some more details today from Time Inc, including an internal memo posted…
So it has finally been decided, as long rumored: Business 2.0 magazine is closing down, after Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) tried to sell it but in…
On the same day Time Inc. reported online ad revenue rising, as the overall publishing segment remained largely flat at $1.3 billion in Q2 (…
Business 2.0 has been saved for another issue, reports Valleywag and AdAge. So instead of September being the last issue, October one is bei…
Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) posted slightly higher net income of $1.1 billion, or $0.28 per diluted common share, versus last year’s $1 billion,…
I have been speaking to various Time Inc and non-Time Inc sources over the last week on the future of Business 2.0, and the consensus is tha…
High school sports social net Takkle has raised additional funding from Sports Illustrated and The New York City Investment Fund. The amount…
We have been hearing rumblings on this for a few months now … I asked Vivek Shah, the newly appointed head of Time Inc’s business media gr…
Late word via AdAge that Vivek Shah, credited with much of the success of CNNMoney.com, has been promoted to president of the Time Inc. Busi…
Earlier today we published Rafat’s interview with Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore. Time Warner chairman and CEO Dick Parsons talked about the magazi…
Speaking in New York Wednesday morning, Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore dismissed talks of a spin-off or sale; complained that the division was unde…
— PGA Tour Online Attracts 1 Million Video Streams: Golf fans have been tuning into live coverage of the PGA Tour live on the event’s websi…
Time Inc. is launching its first major web-only publication since the demise last year of its male humor site Office Pirates. The new one co…
So he said in an interview to Reuters, ahead of Time Warner’s shareholders meeting. He said the company’s board was examining a possible fut…
We ran into some audio trouble on the TWX call after this morning’s earnings report so are picking up from the transcript from SeekingAlpha/…
Anderson Cooper, Adult Swim, the NHL — at this rate, Joost is starting to look like basic cable. The company expanded its beta again today…
A new twist on the recent trend of print magazines transitioning to online-only editions: a year after shuttering its hard copy edition, Tee…
It really doesn’t matter how many times top execs deny a property is for sale — if other people think it should be, it will be proposed and…
SI.com and NBCSports.com started an intriguing relationship this weekend that includes content production and sharing, cross promotion and c…
If last month’s Golden Globe awards are any indication, next Sunday’s Oscars are going to be very good for the web traffic of traditional me…
Following Rafat
Time Inc EVP John Squires is speaking at the Dealmarkers summit in NYC today, and he had a small bit of news: The company is soon going to a…
As we reported, SI Digital Group announced its acquisition of FanNation.com from Sports Technologies, Inc. Thursday; that was accompanied by…
You’re reading it here first … The Sports Illustrated Group will announce Thursday that it has an agreement to acquire sports social net F…
Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore covered a lot of ground in her early a.m. keynote at SIIA. One tidbit: Time Inc. is about to announce a partnership…
The Time4Media and Parenting Group didn’t fit into Time Inc.’s plans but will help another publisher transform its business. Swedish publish…
At least 250 Time Inc. employees are getting the bad news today as the Time Warner unit goes through a long-anticipated round of deep cuts.…
Nestled in the umpteenth story about impending Time Inc. layoffs, the NYT offers a tantalizing number related to the Time Warner unit’s digi…
It remains to be seen whether Time’s highly touted revolution within the past week
Last week SI launched its relationship with high school social net Takkle. Now comes word that the Time Inc. magazine may be negotiating for…
I wasn’t able to get revenue details into yesterday’s post on the Takkle-Sports Illustrated deal but via an email exchange with Jeff Price,…
This has been in the works for months … high-school sports social net Takkle is going national and launching a strategic alliance with Spo…
Time Magazine isn’t just tweaking a few things — it’s literally retooling, like a plant being refitted to produce a new car. In addition to…
During the 3Q earnings call, Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons and COO Jeff Bewkes each tried to dampen speculation that AOL is for sale. Parsons…
Time Warner managed to disappoint investors in the third quarter even though net income more than doubled. The media conglomerate also reaff…
Time Inc. chairman and CEO Ann Moore is pursuing a tiered interactive strategy with People.com, SI.com and CNNMoney.com at the top and Time.…
Keith Kelly reports that at least 28 parties have expressed interest in looking over Time Inc.’s Niche pubs as potential bidders but only a…
And if you love something let it go free .. no, wait, that’s a t-shirt saying, not part of the actual interview David Carr did late last wee…
Time Inc. finally announced what has been expected for some time: the slimming of its magazine portfolio. The Time Warner unit is shedding s…
People revs up its online efforts with the appointment of Marc Golin, editor of Time Warner’s short-lived OfficePirates.com, as editor of Pe…
Updated: The site has a still-unfunny closing down notice, here.
Time Inc’s first experiment with web-only publications is about to end: the…
In one of the most dramatic acknowledgments that digital media and changing lifestyles mean a stop to the news business as usual, Time magaz…
It might be a bit too speculative to judge its performance so early, but MediaWeek still does. Time Inc’s first effort with online-only prop…
A busy morning for Time Warner — earnings, new free broadband strategy for AOL, unwinding Time Warner’s partnership with Comcast, and more.…
So says a story in AdAge (which went behind a subscription wall before I could fully read it)…Sports Illustrated, which tried to get siste…
Numerous magazines were working the community angle before the MySpace target audience was born — readers’ panels, get togethers, encouragi…
Teen People, one of the first major magazines to be launched simultaneously in print and on the web, is suspending its print operations…it…
John Cantarella has been named the new GM of Time.com…he comes from NYTimes.com, where he was the Group Director for Marketing and Operati…
Did Carl Icahn give up too soon where Time Warner is concerned? Using the stock price is the prevailing measure, the answer could be yes, or…
This might be too-little-too-late, but at least theyare trying now: Time magazine has appointed former Time.com editorial head Richard Steng…
National Geographic Online won the top magazine award for online, awarded Tuesday night by the American Society of Magazine Editors and Col…
Time Warner Chairman and CEO Dick Parsons was joined by COO Jeff Newkes and CFO Wayne Pace for the 1Q06 earnings call. Some highlights:
AOL:…
Following the relaunch of CNNMoney.com earlier this year (with all Time Inc business sites being btought under that umbrella), Time Inc has…
Time Inc. Interactive: Aiden Colie is on board as VP-internet technology, responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations that keep the…
