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AdAge has named People the top magazine on its “A List,” the subjective listing of best magazines for the year, the New York Post reports. It won the top slot for “first anticipating then foreshadowing and these days still flourishing in a celebrity sector that’s beginning to look downright imperial in its expansion,” said AdAge.
Real Simple - on the list for four years and never falling below number two - won the second place slot. Other top titles on the A List were Us Weekly, More, Glamour, Teen Vogue, Runner’s World, O the Oprah Magazine, GQ, and The Week.
Launch of the year went to Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s Everyday Food, and Wired magazine’s editor in chief Chris Anderson won Editor of the Year.
Arbitron has reached a settlement with the State of New York, in a move that will resolve all claims against Arbitron that were alleged in the lawsuit filed against the company by the NY Attorney General relating to the marketing…
Just weeks after shuttering the print edition of PC Magazine and moving it entirely online, Ziff Davis has announced that it is closing the books on Electronic Gaming Magazine, due to the sale of its collection of video game sites,…
Angered by a London bus advertisement that sent her to a website where she was told that she was going to hell, to spend all eternity in torment, comedy writer Ariane Sherine decided to launch a counter-campaign.
She began raising…
Time Warner said today that the economy has been more challenging in terms of its advertising business than it had expected, particularly at AOL and the Time Inc. publishing units.
The company said it will post a net operating loss…
On its Google Checkout page, Google claims a “Checkout” icon can increase ad click-through by 10%. (At least one client, Fred Lerner of e-commerce network Ritz Interactive, claims the Checkout icon increased clickthroughs by 23%.)
What’s more, Google Checkout users purportedly…
Even through a recession U.S. consumers redeem just 1%-3% of paper coupons, but up to half of the coupons that Kroger sends to its customers are redeemed - because it uses a data-mining firm it part-owns to target specific customers.
Kroger,…
