Media Business names Top Innovators in Business Publishing

Posted on: 04/30/13

BtoB's Media Business has announced the winners of its 10th annual Top Innovators in Business Publishing Awards. The awards recognize executives from large trade, small trade and general business media companies across six categories: CEO, top publishing executive, digital, events, audience...

Forbes taps two for exec posts

Posted on: 04/01/13

New York—Tom Davis, most recently VP-sales and marketing for Forbes Media, has been named CMO. He succeeds Jack Laschever, who has been appointed president of Forbes Conferences.

IDG introduces new event technology

Posted on: 03/26/13

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TechMediaNetwork hires three executives

Posted on: 03/22/13

New York—TechMediaNetwork Inc., parent of such online media brands as Laptop, Space and TopTenReviews, announced three executive appointments.

TechHive teams with Edmunds.com for car tech coverage

Posted on: 03/20/13

San Francisco—TechHive, a consumer tech brand of IDG Consumer & SMB, has formed a collaborative editorial partnership with Edmunds.com. Edmunds.com will bring its auto tech expertise to TechHive's audience and TechHive editors will bring their consumer tech expertise to the Edmunds.com...

Media companies embracing lead generation

Posted on: 03/12/13

Business media companies now have the technology and people in place to help marketers through the multistep process of capturing marketing-qualified and sales-accepted leads—and b-to-b marketers need that help more than ever.

IDG TechNetwork counts on Banks for digital production

Posted on: 03/12/13

After working for years in the finance sector, Vince Banks made the jump to the magazine business in 2006. He is now VP-digital media at IDG TechNetwork, an online advertising network for technology marketers and agencies. Banks' group recently launched a data-management platform that uses the...

Mobile-optimized site makeover delivers new ad units

Posted on: 03/12/13

When IDG Consumer & SMB rolled out mobile-optimized sites in November, the company had more than multiplatform delivery up its sleeve. Designers also built a new template for the sites to enable ad formats that, in the first two months of operation, helped increase cross-property click-through...

Publishers focus on centralizing mobile strategy to meet brand needs

Posted on: 02/26/13

The mobile audience for ALM brands grew by more than 30% in 2012, said Jeff Litvack, senior VP-digital. That shift outpaced expectations and drove the media company to develop an aggressive strategy to serve its content on multiple devices. “ALM was already investing in mobile, but the...

SIIA: 'Tech thunderstorms,' customer partnerships transform media industry

Posted on: 02/04/13

Abrupt change, marked by shifting customer behaviors, the acceleration of digital communications and an increasing reliance on Big Data, will continue to disrupt the media business, according to several speakers at last week's Information Industry Summit 2013, the annual meeting of the Software &...

Business media companies plan to accelerate growth

Posted on: 01/08/13

This year should see business media companies continue to operate leanly as they strive to broaden their revenue streams beyond print and online display advertising, implement digital- and mobile-first approaches to content, and invest in new data technologies. For some traditional companies, this...

Yorke named CEO of IDG Global Solutions

Posted on: 12/12/12

Framingham, Mass.—IDG Communications has named Matthew Yorke to the newly created role of CEO of IDG Global Solutions (IGS). Yorke had been president of IGS since 2010 and also served as president of IDG Strategic Marketing Services (SMS).

IDG Enterprise rolls out Alliance Advisory Services

Posted on: 11/13/12

Framingham, Mass.—IDG Enterprise has debuted Alliance Advisory Services, a marketing services unit designed to help customers communicate their value to their partners and strengthen the value of the alliance.

ABM forum spotlights shift to data services

Posted on: 11/05/12

The need for business publishers to develop more data-driven products and services dominated the conversation at American Business Media's Executive Forum last month in Chicago.

IDG's TechSignals looks to tap Big Data for advertisers

Posted on: 11/02/12

IDG launched its TechNetwork (IDGTN) four years ago, creating a vertical ad network that allowed marketers to cost effectively reach carefully vetted technology sites and blogs beyond IDG's owned and operated properties. Early last year, IDGTN took another innovative step by embracing the real-...

IDG Enterprise rolls out CITEworld.com

Posted on: 10/08/12

Framingham, Mass.—IDG Enterprise has introduced CITEworld.com, a website targeting IT professionals and business executives who use consumer technologies in their operations.

Publishers see challenges with responsive design

Posted on: 10/05/12

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg aired his frustration with Web apps and responsive design last month at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 conference, saying that the social network's biggest mistake had been “betting too much on HTML5.”

What marketers want from media

Posted on: 09/14/12

Media companies have significant opportunities to help marketers generate leads through the marketing services they offer, according to a new study by Media Business.

IDG Amplify extends social marketing services

Posted on: 08/28/12

Framingham, Mass.—IDG Amplify has rolled out several new products and services designed to extend marketers' social media campaigns.

HTML5 technology spurs 'write once, publish many' model

Posted on: 07/17/12

The publishing benefits of deploying HTML5 technology were discussed last month at MPA Digital: Technology, a one-day conference that focused on how media companies can use technology to manage magazine content on print and digital platforms. HTML5, a browser-based programming language that is able ...