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Polar Mobile Raises $6 Million For Magazine Apps, Cross-Platform Services

Jan 23, 2012 6:18 AM

Polar Mobile—the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX), Shanghai Daily, Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) and the WSJ—today announced two steps up in its growth: it has picked up an additional $6 million in funding and has launched…

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Posted In: Apps, E-Commerce, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, B2B, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, CBS, CBS Interactive, Conde Nast, Future Publishing, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, RIM, BlackBerry, georgian partners, polar mobile

Industry Moves
Industry Moves: Condé Ups UK Deputy, Microsoft, Boxwood

Jan 11, 2012 8:18 AM

Here are some of the latest executive hirings and exits from the world of digital media business…

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Posted In: Industry Moves, Industry Moves Roundup, Companies, Conde Nast, Microsoft

120 Years Of ‘Vogue,’ Online For $1,575

Dec 9, 2011 8:36 AM

In fashion, they say, what goes around comes around. Now designers, fashionistas and historians—as well as advertisers and the simply curious—can browse Vogue’s new digital archive for inspiration. It contains every page of every U.S. issue of Vogue published since the magazine launched in 1892, indexed and searchable. A yearly…

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Posted In: Advertising, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Women-Centric Content, Companies, Conde Nast, vogue, wgsn

Hearst’s Carey: We Will Have One Million Paying Digital Subscribers In 2012

Nov 30, 2011 5:30 PM

On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, another magazine publisher is gearing up to join the seven-figure club: Hearst says it is on track to reach one million paying subscribers to its digital editions in…

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Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Mobile, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Apple, iPad, iTunes, Barnes & Noble, Nook, Conde Nast, Google, Android, Hearst, Pearson, Economist, Reuters, cosmopolitan, david carey, esquire, good housekeeping, harpers bazaar, oprah winfrey

Industry Moves
Industry Moves: Conde Nast Ups Coleridge; Also: Adconion, BBC

Nov 28, 2011 9:51 AM

News of the latest hirings and exits in the digital media business in brief…

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Posted In: Advertising, Industry Moves, Industry Moves Roundup, Companies, BBC, Conde Nast

Condé Nast Marries Print And iPad Subscriptions In UK

Nov 10, 2011 10:55 AM

Condé Nast is finally allowing UK print subscribers to its magazines to access the same magazines inside corresponding iPad apps, by inputting their print subscription number to the apps.

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Apple, iPad, Conde Nast

Publishers See Apple Newsstand Sales Surge, But Ad Sales Slow To Follow

Oct 25, 2011 6:45 PM

Condé Nast is the latest publisher to claim a boom in digital magazine sales from the launch of Apple’s Newsstand two weeks: the publisher of Glamour, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Wired says that new subscription sales, per week, across all nine digital editions, was up 268 percent, with…

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Posted In: Apps, E-Commerce, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Apple, iPad, iTunes, Conde Nast, Google, Android, Hearst

Industry Moves
Industry Moves: Condé Nast, Populis, Briefing Media, BBC Worldwide

Sep 5, 2011 10:36 AM

—Condé Nast International is adding Malcolm Simms as its first chief technology officer, reporting to chairman Jonathan Newhouse and “laterally” to digital president James Bielfield. Simms founded legal services contractor K Cloud and is an ex Disney/ABC (NYSE: DIS) executive.

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Posted In: Industry Moves, Industry Moves Roundup, Companies, BBC, BBC Worldwide, Conde Nast

Nokia’s Signs Of Life: A China Deal; A Content Deal; And A Show

Aug 17, 2011 10:26 AM

Bit by bit, we are starting to get a better idea of what Nokia (NYSE: NOK) plans to do to reassert itself in the mobile phone market in the months ahead. In the past few days, we’ve learned of an operator partnership with China Mobile; a new focus at a…

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Posted In: Apps, Mobile, Events, Mobile World Congress, Companies, Apple, Conde Nast, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, RIM, Countries, Asia, China, Canada, Europe, china mobile, polar mobile

Industry Moves
Industry Moves: Condé Nast Digital Director, Pace, ITN, Stardoll

May 31, 2011 12:04 PM

—Condé Nast: Wired publisher Jamie Jouning is the magazine publisher’s latest UK digital director, in a restructure following the retirement of the division’s country manager Emanuela Pignataro, Mad reports.

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Posted In: Industry Moves, Industry Moves Roundup, Companies, Conde Nast

Conde Nast Tests The Water For Wired In Germany

May 6, 2011 6:18 AM

After launching UK and Italian editions of Wired magazine in 2009, Conde Nast is now considering a German edition.

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Conde Nast, Countries, Europe, Germany, wired

Condé Nast UK To Invest More In iPad Apps

Mar 11, 2011 4:56 AM

iPad magazine sales have often failed to live up to their early promise, but Condé Nast Digital Britain is nevertheless upping its investment in bringing its publications to Apple’s tablet.

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Apple, iPad, Conde Nast

Condé Nast Launching Digital Editions For Android

Feb 14, 2011 12:33 PM

Condé Nast is prepping digital editions of The New Yorker and Wired magazines for Google’s Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb) system this spring. While both titles have been available on Apple’s iPad for several months, publishers such as Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) are hopeful that Google’s greater flexibility on managing digital…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, Conde Nast, Google, Android, new yorker, wired

Wired’s UK iPad Edition Debuts, Priced Between Print Copy And Print Sub

Nov 3, 2010 9:41 AM

Wired magazine’s UK version has unveiled its debut iPad edition alongside its December print edition today. Weighing in at a hefty 528Mb, £2.39 download, inside a lightweight library app wrapper, this edition is a one-off before the mag “takes a slight pause to assess/iterate before moving to monthly publication,” as…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Conde Nast

Guest Voices
Mag Publishers Have A Short Window Before Indies Crash The iPad

Oct 13, 2010 6:17 AM

Ashley Norris is CEO of branded content advisory Sutro Digital and director of Anorak Publishing and is currently planning an iPad annual version of his Whoateallthepies.tv soccer blog. Saying that David Hepworth is a man with a bit of a track record in publishing is a bit like calling Einstein…

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Posted In: Features, Guest Voices, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Apple, iPad, Conde Nast

Wired UK Will Test One-Off iPad Edition Before A Rolling Schedule

Oct 3, 2010 7:01 PM

Wired’s UK edition is about to follow its U.S. counterpart by publishing an iPad version. But the edition will publish a single issue first before taking time to consider a full monthly schedule.

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Apple, iPad, Conde Nast

Condé Nast UK MD: Up To 40 Percent Of Sales Could Be On iPad

Sep 15, 2010 9:08 AM

By Mark Sweney: Nicholas Coleridge, the managing director of Condé Nast UK, has predicted that in the future as many as 40% of the publisher’s sales will come from apps for Apple’s iPad and similar devices.

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Conde Nast

The Message Isn’t Always The Medium

Aug 16, 2010 8:41 AM

There’s an intriguing thinkpiece in Wired UK’s September edition in which Russell Davies effectively argues that the shape of our content is a product of the media that carry it...

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, Magazines, Companies, Apple, iPad, Conde Nast

Wired iPad Edition Will Likely Be Cheaper Than Print

Mar 22, 2010 6:57 PM

So says Wired UK editor David Rowan in conversation with AudioBoo’s Mark Rock… Wired has been working with Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) Experience Design to create a tablet edition that adds navigable story art, bookmarks and sharing features, 360-degree product walkthroughs and video - all underpinned by a timeline-like “scrubber” bar.…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, Magazines, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, Conde Nast

Industry Moves: Publicis Modem CEO, Condé Nast Social, Endemol Head, Brands4friends

Feb 25, 2010 11:12 AM

—Publicis Modem: Jean-Philippe Maheu is been named the CEO of Publicis Modem, the advertising giant’s interactive marketing services division. He was previously chief digital officer for Ogilvy & Mather North America, and had also been CEO of Razorfish, where he led the company through an IPO and eventual sale to…

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Posted In: Industry Moves Roundup, Companies, Conde Nast, Publicis

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