Robert Andrews
Feb 8, 2012 2:04 AM
Magazine and web publisher Future has hit a key milestone in the media industry’s great transition - UK digital revenues made up for print revenue falls between October and December.
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Amanda Natividad
Jan 31, 2012 6:17 PM
—Yahoo: In a reorganization of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) EMEA, Marketing VP James Tipple and Marketing Director Andrew Cocker have left the company, according to NMA. Meanwhile, Robert Bridge has been promoted to senior director and head of marketing for the region. Earlier in January, Yahoo appointed Scott Thompson, former PayPal…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 26, 2012 7:05 AM
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 25, 2012 10:22 AM
UK magazine publisher Future made $1 million in new tablet magazine revenue within a month of debuting 65 of its titles on iTunes’ Newsstand.
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Ingrid Lunden
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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Mark Sweney
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Jan 13, 2012 5:09 AM
Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) has sold off its loss-making New York operation – home to magazines including Guitar World, Revolver and Guitar Aficionado – in a deal worth $3m (£1.9m).
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Robert Andrews
Jan 6, 2012 10:31 AM
Here’s something you don’t see every day… a publisher putting aside grumbles about the platform and actually launching on Android.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 5, 2012 10:41 AM
Amongst the first moves in UK magazine publisher Future’s new effort to turn around its U.S. business, the company is launching its TechRadar portal in America.
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Robert Andrews
Nov 24, 2011 5:10 AM
Future wants to tackle a worsening U.S. print magazine market by merging its UK and U.S. businesses and by more quickly converting its American business to digital.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 27, 2011 4:03 AM
UK-based magazine publisher Future is “eliminating an entire tier of overhead” in the shape of its own CEO Stevie Spring and finance director John Bowman, in a move that could signal its exit from the U.S. market.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 25, 2011 9:31 AM
Magazine publisher Future has launched an e-commerce site to sell knitting patterns, project materials and other crafts items, cutting across its Simply Knitting, The Knitter, Cross Stitcher and Mollie Makes magazines.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 13, 2011 11:32 AM
Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) will decide which of its magazine titles to convert in to full iPad editions after unleashing 65 new replica editions on Apple’s new iOS Newsstand.
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Robert Andrews
Sep 28, 2011 9:24 AM
Games Radar and Guitar World publisher Future Plc of the UK is weighing its options for its U.S. division, it disclosed in a preview of full-year earnings due in November…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 21, 2011 6:37 AM
After apparently achieving low take-up for FirstPlay, the £0.99-a-week video magazine it launched on PS3 last year, Future is on Wednesday debuting Access, a free alternative, on the console.
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Robert Andrews
Aug 31, 2011 9:56 AM
Despite already having a strong portfolio of technology titles, magazine and website publisher Future is bringing a localised version of Gawker Media’s Gizmodo tech blog to the UK.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 20, 2011 12:55 PM
Another day, another publisher looking to take a step away from print. Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR), the UK-based special-interest magazine publisher, is looking to sell or close eight print titles and lose 100 staff, as it looks to stem a decline in revenues, particularly in the U.S., and continue its…
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Robert Andrews
Jun 20, 2011 10:22 AM
Some publishers have been turning their monthly magazines in to half-yearly “books” - spinning their individual expertise out in to more static “guides” - for some time.
But mostly they have remained sold alongside their monthly counterparts on newsagent shelves.
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Robert Andrews
May 20, 2011 4:27 AM
Future says tablet magazine sales of over £100,000 ($161863.16) per month pushed its digital activities in to their first ever profit during the first half of this year.
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Robert Andrews
Mar 28, 2011 12:03 PM
—AppNexus: Nielsen’s audience head Ari Paparo is joining real-time ad platform AppNexus as product SVP. —Jumptap: Regina Sebring has signed onto the new position of VP of publisher partnerships, reporting to CMO/CRO Todd Anderman. Previously, Sebring was VP/GM at AudienceScience and earlier, she held executive positions at Valueclick, Advertising.com and…
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Robert Andrews
Mar 23, 2011 10:56 AM
In yet another “paywalls” debate Wednesday morning, came an interesting twist on the oft-heard grumble that “free” BBC News is a barrier to news sites charging - an accusation, from a magazine publisher, that one of those newspapers itself is just as much a barrier…
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