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Retail Week: Retail Week goes mobile

Martin Stabe — Sun, 29 May 2011 19:04:12 +0000

"Retail Week has launched a mobile-optimised site. The site, developed with mobile design agency SteelyEye..."

How-do: Retail Week goes mobile with 2ergo

Martin Stabe — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:58:11 +0000

"2ergo has created a mobile website that aims to bring Retail Week’s 20th anniversary conference to life, encouraging greater interaction between delegates, speakers and the organisers themselves."

Moving on: a new job

Martin Stabe — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:47:51 +0000

It’s my last day at Emap and Retail Week today. On Monday, I’ll be joining the the Financial Times as a producer on FT.com’s interactive desk. It’s a great opportunity to finally ~~practice~~ practise the area of journalism that has most fascinated me in recent years — the visualisation of data and integration of multimedia elements in online journalism. I’m very excited about it. Expect the focus of this blog to shift a bit towards tags like Flash, HTML5, graphics, visualisation and data.

As excited as I am about that, I’m going to miss working at Emap. Over the last two years, I’ve been hugely privileged to work with an amazing team of journalists in the retail group here, and particularly some great digital editors in Andre Rickerby, Keely Stocker and Kate Donovan.

We relaunched four websites — Retail Week, Drapers, Retail Jeweller and Professional Beauty. We successfully pioneered implementing Emap’s much-discussed paywall strategy. We vastly improved what we do in terms of search engine optimisation, email newsletters, and video content. We launched and integrated a brilliant rich data product and have several others in the works.

There’s so much left to be done here — I’m sad to be leaving two very exciting projects in the pipeline. But they will soon be in the very capable hands of Victoria Thompson.

psmith, journalist: B2B publishers make money from paywalls; can consumer media do the same?

Martin Stabe — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:49:01 +0000

"'We’re moving the mindset of our audience, our own people and advertisers to think that this isn’t a magazine but an intelligence provider,' [Emap CEO David Gilbertson] says. And it’s working, so far: new subcription rates have more than doubled on those titles, while some have seen new subscriptions and renewal rates multiply by four or five times. Gilbertson says his target is to reach an annual ten percent lift in renewal rates across the company this year."

paidContent:UK: Emap Will Raise The Paywall In Next Few Weeks

Martin Stabe — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:03:48 +0000

David Gilbertson: “We’re shifting the balance of the marketing message from, ‘this is a magazine and it has a website’ to ‘this is an information brand that delivers content across a range of media”.

AJ Notebook

Martin Stabe — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:32:55 +0000

"Design inspiration. Selected by you, curated by the Architects' Journal."

Google – Internet Stats

Martin Stabe — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:19:22 +0000

"This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time. ... Data provided by the following vendors: ... Retail Week ..."

Sunday Times: The men who made Twitter tweet

Martin Stabe — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:58:58 +0000

Commenter Emma Howard: "By signing up to twitters like retail week, daily beast and the onion, I get to be my own editor. I read their twitters and if I'm interested I follow the links to real articles. "

Extranet Evolution: Media and Web 2.0, Tweet and print

Martin Stabe — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:13:14 +0000

"Overall, it appears the main UK architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) titles are becoming increasingly switched-on to social media. It remains to be seen whether their readership follows suit, and, if so, how quickly they do so."

Full disclosure time: New job

Martin Stabe — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:12:46 +0000

As those who stalk me on Twitter or Facebook already know, yesterday was my final day working at Press Gazette.

Next Thursday, I will be joining Emap as online editor of Retail Week. There are some interesting digital plans afoot at Emap, so I’m very excited to be part of it.

I’ll continue watching developments in online journalism on this blog. But of course my move to Emap will limit what I can and do blog about what is going on there, that everything on this blog is my personal opinion and that nothing here necessarily reflects the views or options of my new employers.

Management Today: The MT Interview: Carolyn McCall

Martin Stabe — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:36:53 +0000

McCall: "... we have to be more overt about the Observer coming from the Guardian news and media stable. But we're not going to have the Guardian-on-Sunday - the Observer is a strong print brand."

Sunday Times: Emap chairman faces open revolt

Martin Stabe — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:19:25 +0000

"A group of shareholders in Emap has devised an ambitious scheme to oust chairman Alun Cathcart if his £2 billion break-up plan fails to deliver."

Times Online: Channel 4 asks Emap about taking full control of Box TV

Martin Stabe — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:02:55 +0000

Channel, which bought half of Emap’s music television division in July for £28 million, is understood to have spoken to Emap executives about a price for acquiring the remaining 50 per cent stake.

Telegraph: Guardian joins Apax to bid for Emap titles

Martin Stabe — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:33:45 +0000

"Apax, the private equity firm, has teamed up with the publisher of The Guardian newspaper to mount a joint £1.2bn bid for Emap's business publishing division ... as it would fit neatly with Incisive Media , in which [Apax] has a shareholding"

Times Online: Emap sell-off has nothing for UBM

Martin Stabe — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:13:14 +0000

"United Business Media has revealed it has decided not to buy Emap’s business-to-business operations. The business media group was seen as the most likely buyer of the division ... "

FT.com: Why Hearst has reason to thank the global Cosmopolitan woman

Martin Stabe — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:54:01 +0000

"As it seeks to expand its global footprint, Hearst is looking at a more developed market: the UK. It has bid £700m ($1.43bn) for the consumer magazine group at Emap, which includes such titles as Heat and FHM."

Reuters: Guardian Media CEO eyes buys ahead of U.S. push

Martin Stabe — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:10:47 +0000

"The chief executive of Britain's Guardian Media Group [Carolyn McCall] said on Monday the company was keen to buy business-to-business assets, but would not confirm whether she has put forward a bid for media group Emap."

Telegraph: Hearst makes bid for Emap

Martin Stabe — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:58:35 +0000

Natmags parent the Hearst Corporation has made a bid for Emap's consumer publishing arm. "A successful bid would see Hearst overtake IPC and give the company a leading title serving every major demographic."

Economist.com: The magazine industry: Out of vogue

Martin Stabe — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:01:33 +0000

“It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines,” says Felix Dennis ... “but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.”

Reuters: UK newspaper publishers fall, UBS wary on sector

Martin Stabe — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:01:24 +0000

"UBS said it was concerned about structural risks facing the UK regional newspaper industry."