Press Gazette: Revenue up at UBM in year it closed 13 magazines
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 13:07
"UBM said it would continue with its strategy of managing the contraction of its print division – following on from it closing 31 titles and merging or reducing the frequency of others throughout 2009."
Press Gazette: UBM sells The Publican to William Reed in £1.65m deal
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 13:07
"UBM said today the transaction would see 14 staff transfer to William Reed, which already publishes a series of hospitality and food and drink retail titles – including the other main pub industry trade title, The Morning Advertiser.""
Publishing Executive: Haymarket, Incisive, Reed Business, UBM Medica form UK ad network
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 18:06
BBN press release: "With the addition of these six UK based media companies, also including Decisive Media and Newsco Insider, BBN has strengthened its offering for major brand-building advertisers seeking a large-scale solution for reaching this important target market."
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."
The Wall: Readers react negatively as UBM puts building mag behind paywall
Thursday, 23 September 2010, 17:13
"United Business Media has put the premium content of its Building Design website behind a paywall, asking £69 from a year for access, and sparked a largely (and maybe not surprising) negative reaction from readers."
Rory Brown: 7 strategic questions business media leaders should be asking
Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 08:31
"1) What business am I in? … 2) What does your company do really well? … 3) In which markets do you own brands with ‘last-man standing’ advantage? … 5) What are you doing to move up the value chain of information in your chosen markets? … 6) Is my business structured for the past or the future? … 7) Can I explain my company strategy clearly, simply and believably?"
psmith, journalist: B2B publishers make money from paywalls; can consumer media do the same?
Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 21:49
"'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."
Zerochampion: Our move to paid content
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 10:06
UBM Built Environment digital director Phil Clark: "[We] will be charging for content online. As of today Building has introduced a gate on its site … So far in the switch we have tried to be iterative: to test approaches before making significant steps. The gating system we are using is based on the FT-model, where users first register after some use then pay after further clicks. As the buzzword goes it’s a freemium model."
Press Gazette: Property Week launches first interactive magazine
Friday, 5 February 2010, 13:49
"… Ceros … page-turning technology … multimedia … Flash … permanent editor … Four editions of the free interactive magazine will be published this year and emailed to Property Week’s quarterly global edition and daily newsletter subscribers." Erm.
AOP: Ian Eckert on charging for content, and the ‘year of the paywall’
Thursday, 21 January 2010, 10:43
Discussion of the Abacus Webvision subs barrier technology we use at Emap, along with the metered access version used by UBM for Property Week and Building.
Wired UK: Imagining a future without journalists
Monday, 12 October 2009, 17:35
Peter Kirwan: "At its most basic, business journalism involves interpreting the dynamics of an industry. Yet if these shifting dynamics can be reduced to data points, and if those data points can be sold in digital format to subscribers, the value of external interpretation – and journalism – inevitably declines."
These Digital Times: Can B2B magazine brands survive?
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 17:17
John Welsh lists some reasons why B2B magazines could be quite well-positioned to succeed online.
Sunday, 14 October 2007, 09:33
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"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"
Friday, 12 October 2007, 21:13
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"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 … "
