Another IPC Digital Director: Haymarket’s Gerry Joins Men’s Division
Haymarket Business Media’s digital strategy director Matthew Gerry is the latest to take a similar role at IPC. He is leaving to become the…
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IPC Ups Thornton To Head Women’s Digital Activities
— IPC Southbank: IPC Media’s Southbank division – which publishes Marie Claire, InStyle and Look – is promoting the digital editorial devel…
Industry Moves: IPC Digital, Notonthehighstreet, Banijay, Catwalk Queen
— IPC: The magazine publisher is promoting digital programme director Tara Hamilton-White (pictured) (reporting to digital director Neil Ro…
Industry Moves: Upstream; LBi; Mediatonic; Globecast; IPC Media
— Upstream: Simon Negus is the new COO for mobile marketing company Upstream. He joins from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), where he had been a par…
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Industry Moves: Twitter, IPC Digital Director, RadiumOne, PPL CTO, iVillage
— Twitter: It’s named SparkPR’s Rachel Bremer, who has done PR for plenty of tech startups, as its debut, London-based head of communicatio…
IPC, Absolute Adopt New Commenting Tools
IPC Media and Absolute Radio each say they are first in the UK to adopt new tools that will let their consumers feed comments through to the…
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Updated: The Contraction Of IPC: A List Of Sell-Offs So Far
IPC Media is off-loading two more magazines in its great right-sizing of 2010. This time, it’s Model Collector and Stamp Magazine being sold…
IPC Selling Web User Magazine, Website To Dennis
IPC Media is another publishing house contracting its portfolio to get in to shape. In the latest of several sell-offs, it’s selling Web Use…
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AOL Picks UK Online Editor-In-Chief From Marie Claire
By Steve Busfield: Marie Claire’s online editor, Carla Bevan, is to join AOL (NYSE: AOL) as editor-in-chief of its UK content sites.
Bevan…
IPC May Re-Publish Premium Melody Maker Archive Online?
If artists like The Beatles can make a killing from their back catalogue, can music mags do it, too? Melody Maker, a magazine that has been…
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Industry Moves: IPC Media, Mip Chief, Guardian Changes
— IPC Media: Marketing and strategy director Neil Perkins is leaving after 14 years with IPC to consult on digital strategy, he announced o…
IPC Pleases Photo Advertisers With Digital-Edition Mag
I hate digital-edition mags, and probably many consumers hate them mags, too. But advertisers, increasingly, are loving them. And IPC Media…
Conde’s UK Online Boss, IPC Reshuffle, DAB Switchover Chief, Jigsaw, Bebo
— Conde Nast: Wired publisher Jamie Jouning is taking the new role of publisher for Conde Nast Digital Britain, the UK counterpart to Conde…
Mobile Content Bits: NME iPhone App; Fortumo Hong Kong; Bulkypix
— NME: IPC Media’s rock weekly has launched a £0.59 iPhone app featuring photography from the magazine. NME Radio launched on the app stor…
Advertising Round-Up: Muzu-Ad2One; BSkyB-Adgent; Orange-Unaminis; Yell-3 UK
— Muzu-Ad2One: Irish music vid site Muzu.tv has hired sales house Ad2One to handle its display account, six months after choosing eType for…
IPC Reorgs Digital Sales, Director From AOL, Two Layoffs
Marie Claire and NME publisher IPC Media says it’s unifying the separate online ad sales staff from its individual magazines in to a single,…
Publishers' Online Plans For Footy Season Kick-Off
It seems to come around sooner every year… The Premier League season kicks off on Saturday and it’s as bloated, overpaid and dominating in…
Print Round-Up: SMG Sells Front; Guardian/Expedia; NME’s iPhone App
— Sport sells Front: Daily Sport publisher Sport Media Group has sold lads’ mag Front for just £87,500 to start-up Kane Limited, just 14 m…
Industry Moves: Vodafone CMO, NME Ed., LinkedIn PR, AVG Comms
— Vodafone: Wendy Becker, MD of marketing at Carphone Warehouse’s ISP TalkTalk since February 2008, has joined as chief marketing officer,…
IPC The Latest To Sell Its Own YouTube Ads
Time Warner-owned magazine publisher IPC Media is the latest media group to sell its own display ads surrounding its content on YouTube. The…
Print Round-Up: Esquire Site Launch; InStyle Online Re-Launch; Guardian Mobile; Pocket London
— Esquire: The NatMags’ men’s title has launched its first editorial-focused UK website, a simple blog-based affair featuring lots of video…
Industry Moves: IPC Media, Virgin Media, BBCWW South Asia
— IPC Media: IPC Media is making a new role of web technology director and has hired former RBI web solutions head Kelly Waters to the post…
Oh Nuts! Nuts TV Dropped From TV, Forced To Be Web-Only Again
IPC Media’s Nuts lads mag has had its designs on living-room respectability cut down to size in two fell swoops. Its nascent digital video c…
Time CEO Ann Moore Rules Out IPC Media Sale; Announces Two-Year Plan to Counter Downturn
She might run the biggest magazine company in the world in a time of falling advertising revenue and dwindling sales, but Time (NYSE: TWX) I…
IPC Buys Sports Minigames Portal Mousebreaker To Attract Males
IPC Media is buying Mousebreaker, a Miniclip-style casual minigames website aimed at men, for a “seven-figure” sum – it’s first web-only pla…
Magicalia Buys IPC's Practical Parenting; Online-Only 'Would Be Laughable'
Magazine publisher IPC Southbank is selling its Practical Parenting title to online communities publisher Magicalia, saying it is “regrettab…
Industry Moves: Handbag’s Stenner Becomes IPC Digital Director
Alicen Stenner, group digital marketing director and publisher at NatMags’ Handbag women’s site, is joining magazine publisher IPC Southbank…
Industry Moves: IPC, GCap And MTV Make Advertising Hires
– IPC Media: IPC Advertising has appointed Richard Whittle, former digital planning director at media agency Initiative, to the newly create…
Polish Women's Republic Funded; Female Online Time Digested
Republika Kobiet (Women’s Republic), a Polish lifestyle portal, has received an unspecified amount of funding from Luxembourg-based Mangrove…
IPC Buys Trusted Reviews Site To Complement Magazine Titles
IPC Media has acquired consumer electronics reviews site Trusted Reviews for an undisclosed amount to accompany its technology and men’s mag…
Time Warner Centralises Ad Buying For Major Clients In UK
Time Warner today announced the launch of a new UK Advertising Council, aimed at major advertisers and designed to cross-sell into different…
Industry Moves: IPC Appoints Digital Execs From VMtv, News International
The UK publisher owned by Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), has made a couple of appointments in digital marketing. Kevin Brown is now digital develo…
Industry Moves: iVillage Names UK GM; Commission Junction Nabs ITV.com Alum From 365
– iVillage: Women’s portal iVillage has hired former IPC online exec Rebecca Miskin as the new general manager of UK operations, Media Week…
Industry Moves: EMI Adds Birt, NME.com Editor
– EMI: The music group (LON:EMI) has hired former BBC director-general Lord Birt to the new supervisory board that will now steer the compan…
