How Vogue monetizes old content | Felix Salmon
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 13:13
Felix Salmon: “[Vogues'] archive will cost you $1,575 per year, but the price point makes sense to me. The value here is in the index: even if you had a full archive of Vogue back-issues sitting on your bookshelf (something many fashion-industry profes…
New York: The Cut: Vogue’s New Archive Site Costs $1,575 for a Yearly Subscription
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 13:09
“Vogue’s much-hyped archive website goes live today, and as promised, it contains every single page from every issue dating back to the magazine’s American debut in 1892. According to Vogue’s press release, the site is searchable by decade, brand, desi…
TheMediaBriefing: The new wave of digital media CEOs taking over old media companies
Monday, 7 November 2011, 11:56
Peter Kirwan: “We’re now starting to witness a long overdue exit for [media industry] chief executives of the Baby Boom generation. … We’re also witnessing the rise of a new generation of managers who got their big breaks in the online world from…
Retail Week: Retail Week goes mobile
Sunday, 29 May 2011, 20:04
"Retail Week has launched a mobile-optimised site. The site, developed with mobile design agency SteelyEye…"
Retail Week: Drapers editor joins Amazon UK to ramp up fashion offer
Sunday, 29 May 2011, 19:57
"Etail giant Amazon UK has appointed fashion trade magazine Drapers executive editor Jessica Brown as head of fashion for its fledgling clothing business. … Brown, who has worked at Drapers … for over 10 years …will report into Amazon direct…
FT.com: Emap parts with chief as strategy shifts
Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 11:34
"Friends said [David Gilbertson] had left [Emap] after agreeing with its owners, Guardian Media Group and Apax Partners, that a five-year restructuring is needed. … [The] departure of Mr Gilbertson is certain to raise questions over the strategy…
Press Gazette: Emap boss David Gilbertson to step down
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 21:45
"David Gilbertson is stepping down after three years as chief executive of Emap. … No announcement has yet been made about a successor"
How-do: Retail Week goes mobile with 2ergo
Monday, 7 March 2011, 12:58
"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."
FT.com: Emap boosted by online ‘intelligence’
Monday, 31 January 2011, 13:48
"In the lobby of Emap’s art deco offices in north London, some of the publisher’s most recognisable business magazines are on display: Nursing Times, Screen International, Retail Week and Construction News. Yet today, Emap’s single biggest u…
Moving on: a new job
Friday, 15 October 2010, 10:47
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.
Greenslade: As another magazine charges for access, where’s the proof of paywall success?
Friday, 24 September 2010, 11:08
"What we have yet to know is whether paywalls work. Even magazines that have erected them for a good while are either unsure about the results or, more usually, secretive about them."
FT.com: Emap poised to become acquisitive
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 09:00
"[David] Gilbertson says he could spend well over £100m on 'a list of targets' which would accelerate its growth, mostly serving industries in which Emap already has a presence. … Emap has quietly led the way online in charging for its publications’ websites … One early benefit has been a 5 per cent improvement in renewals of print subscriptions, which are bundled with online access, he says, but he cautions that customers will only pay if B2B publishers make their content 'more actionable' and 'turn information into intelligence'."
Times Online: Guardian Media Group to take £150m hit on Emap
Sunday, 14 March 2010, 20:21
"GMG and Apax are buying back debt from Emap’s lenders after a warning in the last accounts of 'significant doubt' that the publisher could continue as a going concern because of its £700m debt pile. The owners are expected to buy back more than £100m of the borrowings to give David Gilbertson, the chief executive, more freedom to seek acquisitions and invest in the business. Despite its indebtedness, Emap has fared well in the recession. Advertising revenue has fallen sharply and conference attendances have declined, but it earned close to £100m in the past 12 months, roughly the same as a year ago and enough to cover its annual £50m interest bill. However, it is at risk of breaching technical conditions, or covenants, on its loans later this year."
