March 2016

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[custom_font font_family='Raleway' font_size='19' line_height='26' font_style='' text_align='left' font_weight='300' color='' background_color='' text_decoration='none' text_shadow='no' padding='0px' margin='0px']Sometimes all it takes is identifying an under-served market (Dr. Oz The Good Life or any of the many Kickstarter magazine launches) or unique delivery methods (Hearst’s free pop-up magazines) or tying print...

[custom_font font_family='Raleway' font_size='19' line_height='26' font_style='' text_align='center' font_weight='300' color='' background_color='' text_decoration='none' text_shadow='no' padding='0px' margin='0px'] Newsletters are having something of a second youth and some media outlets are making the most of the opportunity. Those who are not yet doing so must begin to incorporate them into...

[custom_font font_family='Raleway' font_size='19' line_height='26' font_style='' text_align='center' font_weight='300' color='' background_color='' text_decoration='none' text_shadow='no' padding='0px' margin='0px'] How a Nordic airline managed to cut the operating costs of their inflight magazine, while maintaining the product's quality, and reducing the company's environmental footprint, all at once. [/custom_font] [custom_font font_family='Open Sans' font_size='13' line_height='26'...

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[custom_font font_family='Raleway' font_size='19' line_height='26' font_style='' text_align='center' font_weight='300' color='' background_color='' text_decoration='none' text_shadow='no' padding='0px' margin='0px'] Nicolás Beytout and Christophe Chenut are trying to invest €20 million over four years to create the first new general interest print daily to survive in Paris since the 1970s, targeting premium...

[custom_font font_family='Raleway' font_size='19' line_height='26' font_style='' text_align='center' font_weight='300' color='' background_color='' text_decoration='none' text_shadow='no' padding='0px' margin='0px'] Well, as of June 2015,  Facebook now drives more digital traffic than Google and all other search engines, and other leading social media platforms are not far behind. Facebook and Twitter are...