Posts Tagged "Flashes&Flames"

Publishers didn’t realise they were content producers

Axel Springer is the picture of an ambitious traditional newspaper publisher torn between the persistent (but declining) profits of print and the soaring potential of digital

The UK-based magazine-media group Future Plc is never far from the news. It was started 29 years ago in the sleepily stylish south-west city of Bath by Chris Anderson

Fifty years ago this week, a 35-year-old former passenger ferry was being equipped with a 165-foot radio mast in the tiny Irish port of Greenore, while its crew bought up the entire stock of a small record shop in nearby Dundalk

Women’s magazines are as captivated by e-commerce as their readers and fashion advertisers. And that’s saying something

Publishers everywhere are paying the price for getting hooked on advertising revenues which corrupted the vital relationship with their primary customers, the readers

The latest blog from Flashes &Flames is about Hearst and also reviews the histories of DMGT, Cox and Schibsted

We should not be side-tracked by the one-dimensional debate about whether newspapers will survive or not

It is easy to believe that free titles (as well as online) are squeezing the life out of the UK paid-for magazine market

The story of LinkedIn and Procurement Leaders (Sagaria)

Peter Rigby is one of the great survivors among European media company chiefs. He became CEO of what is now Informa Plc in 1989, the year when: Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, Time Inc merged with Warner Brothers, and Alan Bond’s media-to-brewing group became Australia’s largest ever bankruptcy. It was also the year […]