On this week’s episode of the podcast we take a deep dive into the subscription trends of the past year. To get insight from someone who’s had experience in subscription management, we spoke...
Condé’s comparison of magazine readers to web and social audiences makes no sense. One of these things is not like the others
I get it. I really do. It’s tough to do print profitably at scale. But a ‘print is dying’ narrative founded on the idea that online audiences are just...
Apple News+ was deeply flawed from the start. Is there really a future for publishers on the platform?
Apple seemed to have a good thing going with its News product. It was clean, easy to navigate, and pulled content responsively into Apple's templates, allowing...
Anorak Magazine’s Cathy Olmedillas on making magazines collectible
On this 150th episode of Media Voices, Cathy Olmedillas, founder of independent children’s magazines Anorak and Dot, explains how she learned about the collectability of magazines from her time...
PPA Managing Director Owen Meredith on a successful #AxeTheReadingTax campaign
This week, Owen Meredith, Managing Director at the Professional Publisher's Association, talks to us about how the lobbying work the association has done on behalf of UK publishers to axe VAT on...
Digital editor of In The Moment magazine Sarah Orme on the emerging market of mindfulness
This week Sarah Orme, digital editor of Immediate Media's In The Moment magazine explains how the magazine has grown with the rising interest in mindfulness, its position as a women’s lifestyle...
Are Digital Magazine Apps A Stepping-Stone to Paid Content?
Peter Houston revisits the world of digital magazines for Publishing Executive
The conventional wisdom on digital magazines is that they’re dead, at least as a custom format,...
The Disconnect’s founders on experimentation and counter-intuitive bets
This week, Peter speaks to The Disconnect's co-founders Chris Bolin and Clayton d'Arnault about the philosophy and meaning behind a digital magazine that can only be consumed while...