By Tony Silber The news-media industry has been in turmoil for years—that’s indisputable. After nearly two decades of media brands shutting down, layoffs of thousands of news professionals, the creation of “news deserts” across wide swaths of America, the industry is...
By Tony Silber It’s the first month of the second quarter of 2024, and it’s a good time to talk about media trends, specifically B2B and association media, and drilling down even a bit more, what’s going on in advertising. Most media companies have closed the books on...
In an earlier era, when publishers produced print magazines only, their most important supplier partners were printers, paper companies, the United States Postal Service, reprint companies. That's no longer the case for most media companies. Instead, the most...
One of the foundational components of any advertising campaign is knowing who your audience is, and whether the media platform you're considering is delivering the people most likely to be interested in your product. In print media, independent audit bureaus have...
Working in media offers all kinds of chances to shine. Perhaps you’re a documentary film maker whose work becomes a hit. Or a news reporter who wins the Pulitzer Prize. For our money, there's no greater source of elation than when a sales team closes a big deal....
Another month, another conference. Or two. Or three. That's just how the Fox Associates team rolls. They know that there's nothing as effective for their stakeholders as getting out in the industry. At trade shows and conferences, you meet prospects, build...
Public speaking is a tricky art. You have to be persuasive, compelling, energetic, informative. But unless you're a comedian or an actor, you have to tread carefully to avoid wildly over-emoting or telling jokes that bomb. Perhaps the most important element is...
When media pros across a wide spectrum look for previously unrecognized trends and fresh insights into what’s happening in the world of advertising, for nearly 20 years they’ve turned to MediaRadar, the advertising-intelligence platform that delivers analysis targeted...
Readex Research, the indispensable market-data pioneer, has served the media industry with roots dating back to 1945. Its products have evolved over the decades, catering to the needs of first the print-magazine industry and following that, it expanded more broadly to...
One of the sessions at the Business Information & Media Conference in New Orleans, February 29-March 1, covered the relationship between media content and conferences. It’s an obvious connection, especially for businesses that produce both, but it can be...