Dennis Publishing, publishers of 70 print and online titles including Maxim, Men’s Fitness and the adult comic Viz, has not been shy to dip its toes into the world of apps, with six dedicated tablet and smartphone products representing its mass market magazines. This week, it announced a deal that…

IPC Media is another publishing house contracting its portfolio to get in to shape. In the latest of several sell-offs, it’s selling Web User, a practical guide with internet advice, to Dennis Publishing. Says IPC: “The deal sees Dennis acquire the brand – currently published within the IPC Inspire portfolio…

Never let it be said that Felix Dennis doesn’t exude a degree of eccentricity. But, if making a billion is this scary, you can stick it. The Dennis Publishing owner, in this video, settles in as though about to read us a horror story...

—Dennis Publishing: Dennis’s online lads’ mag Monkey is working on an app costing £1.79, with Android and Blackberry versions being considered. The forthcoming app is built by MobileQ and will feature scantily clad women—but will it get past Apple’s notoriously prudish app approval process which banned The Sun’s planned Page…

Dennis Publishing is buying another independent niche online consumer publisher - the male-centric site for “funny videos” and “virals”, Kontraband.com from owner Diffusion Media Group. The 10-year-old site aims at 18-to-34 men with games, vids, blog posts and pics, with an editorial team of just five ,claiming 2.2 million monthly…

It can hardly ever be a bad time to be a millionaire, but the UK’s big league media owners have collectively seen their fortunes drop by £3 billion in the last 12 months according to The Sunday Times Rich List (online from Tuesday, except for this preview). Although the list…

We asked a month ago whether the collapse of mens’ mag Arena was the first of many closures in that sector this year and that’s exactly what it looks like: Dennis Publishing will shut the UK edition of its Maxim magazine from May and take the brand online-only after 14…

How long can consumer magazines exist without any meaningful online revenue streams? While some sectors are still launching titles and still have circulations counted in the millions, the answer for some titles seems to be “not long”... ABC figures for H208 today show growth for some - but long-term decline…

As expected, Dennis Publishing’s The Week news digest mag is to launch its first proper website by piggybacking its recently acquired The First Post editorial site. The new site will drop the First Post name but will introduce a subscription-only model. Currently, The Week‘s site only sells subscriptions to the…

—Johnston Press: How many many regional newspaper jobs are there left to eradicate? There will soon be considerably less at Johnston Press’s Midlands titles where 49 jobs are under threat from a plan to restructure and centralise the papers’ subbing and production operations. Johnston is proposing to create three centralised…

Another magazine falls prey to the publishing downturn: Dennis Publishing‘s Computer Buyer has been closed and will have its remaining assets merged with sister title Computer Shopper. Felix Dennis’s company, which claims the title has generated more than £5 million of profit in its lifetime, gave the obvious answer to…

Maverick Dennis Publishing founder and owner Felix Dennis has bullishly predicted his company will make 40 percent of its advertising revenues from online next year. A noted printophile, 61-year-old Dennis tells Telegraph.co.uk today that his old-fashioned ways don’t “interfere with making Dennis a truly multimedia publisher”... “We worked tremendously hard…

PC Pro publisher Dennis is buying computer review and mod tutorial site Bit-Tech.net to add to its technology portfolio, adding 1.05 million monthly uniques to its 2.3 million. Started in 2000, the site focuses on hardware reviews and features as well as PC modifications, and also has a forum. Dennis…

—Dennis: Dennis Publishing will follow its Monkey digital magazine for men with a motoring title, iMotor. Emailed fortnightly from July 17, the page-turner will, like Monkey, include in-page videos. It will draw content from its Evo, Auto Express and Octane mags, Guardian reported. —Talksport: But the new colleague of former…

—Monkey: Dennis’ online men’s magazine Monkey has gone live with its anticipated new website, accompanying the basic digital edition page-turner. Dennis had said last week the site would include video, but the new offering is actually entirely video-centric, offering clips of scantily-clad ladies, funny vids, entertainment and cars. The launch…

—ABCe gap closing: Mirror Group Newspapers recorded four million unique users in March across its seven national news sites, its debut ABCe returns show. Guardian.co.uk held top place with 18.7 million users but lost 816,112 users, Mail Online added 936,924 users to close the gap on 17.9 million, Telegraph.co.uk leaped…

Dennis’ free, paperless lads’ mag Monkey has overtaken commercial print rivals Nuts and Zoo for circulation, as Press Gazette notes. Latest ABCe figures (Monkey’s first for a year) gave the interactive, weekly page-turner an average 271,667 users for its most recent edition - ahead of Nuts’ 270,053 and Zoo’s 179,006.…

Magazine publisher Dennis is buying politics and current affairs webzine The First Post to fit the site alongside its own weekly news digest The Week. Started three years ago, under-the-radar The First Post is owned by its own First Post News Group Limited, funded by digital media private investors and…

We’re closed for the rest of the year, hence running on headlines until Jan 2:— Belgacom’s Skynet unit sells Extenseo to Aegis: Belgacom’s digital media unit Skynet has reached an agreement with Aegis Media Belgium Group to sell its Extenseo search engine marketing subsidiary. Extenseo was founded in 1998 and…