NME unveils Making a Murderer-style Kanye West cover as it reaches highest ever circulation

NME unveils Making a Murderer-style Kanye West cover as it reaches highest ever circulation

NME’s new approach is resonating with millennials following its repositioning as a free weekly title. The Time-owned publication’s first free-distribution ABC figures indicate that it has built an audience of over 307,000 over the past six months, since dropping the price tag and relaunching in September of last year with a widened content remit spanning […]

Toys R Us gamifies print with interactive Christmas catalog

Toys R Us gamifies print with interactive Christmas catalog

Toy R Us has introduced a number of digital elements, including augmented reality, to its festive magazine to ensure children keep flicking through its extensive 96 pages. Marking the point where augmented reality meets traditional shopping, eight toy-laden spreads in the catalog, entitled the ‘The Great Big Toys R Us Book of Awesome’, come to […]

Magazine Ad Pages Slip, Celeb Titles Hit Hard

Magazine Ad Pages Slip, Celeb Titles Hit Hard

Print advertising is dwindling at consumer magazines. The Publishers Information Bureau released figures showing total magazine ad pages fell 4.9% from 33,673 in the first quarter of 2012 to 32,023 in the first quarter of 2013. Of 213 titles tracked by the PIB, 107 (50%) experienced ad page declines in the first quarter of 2013 […]