The Circular Aspect of All Things

What is old is new again. Black becomes the ‘new black’. Everything in this life has a cycle. This article: “4 Trends Impacting Retail Marketing Strategies”  is an interesting read.

Magazines Media Trends and What They Mean for Your Business

“Print is regaining its prestige. Every year FIPP finds innovations in the print space. Print offers strong journalism unavailable online. Private Eye, the UK satire magazine, is growing because it never embraced digital. Publications are creating new packaging for enhanced reader value. Brands are exploring higher quality premium products.” is a snippet from the recent Act 9 Experience conference discussing important trends in Magazine Media. Read the whole article by clicking here.  

A Story Behind the Cover

Often we see the magazine covers in stores, but we really don’t think that much about them, what goes into the making of a good cover or how a magazine decides upon a particular cover.

New York Times magazine has an interesting new project. In their new video series, “Behind the Cover”, they are documenting the creation of the cover images. For the whole story, click here and for the story behind the April 29th cover, click here

Latest Market Share for English Language Publications by Province….Some Interesting Facts

Did you ever wonder what the market share was for English language publications was per province versus the percentage of English language as 1st language speakers there were in Canada?

Well we have the answer for you in the chart below?

The highlighted provinces/territories outperform in terms of market share of copies sold versus provincial/territorial population versus overall Canadian population.

Also very interesting is the number of copies sold per person per year on average is highest in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. We would  hazard a guess that this has a lot to do with limited activities available.

Source: CTC Boxscore