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...

Marco Pardi, President-UBM Tech Events, UBM

Posted on: 04/28/13

The recent reorganization of UBM Tech placed Marco Pardi at the helm of the group's full portfolio of events. His charges include the Game Developers Conference, Black Hat and Enterprise Connect—three events that saw strong growth in 2012 and offset general softness in the North American...

Penton hires Schecter to lead SMB initiative

Posted on: 04/25/13

New York—Peggy Schecter has joined Penton Media as strategic sales director, a new position created to develop marketing programs for marketers targeting small and midsize businesses.

UBM Tech details sweeping reorganization

Posted on: 04/09/13

San Francisco—UBM Tech announced a restructuring in support of a new approach that integrates online media and live events to engage b-to-b technology communities. As part of the restructuring, UBM Tech is discontinuing all print publishing, folding four underperforming events, shutting down...

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.

ePublishing buys Next-Tech Markets

Posted on: 03/12/13

Chicago—ePublishing Inc. has acquired Next-Tech Markets, parent of the B2B Audience Network. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Business.com's new CEO focuses on social, mobile and local

Posted on: 03/04/13

Business.com Media named Tony Uphoff as its new CEO in mid-January. A veteran of more than 20 years in the business information and media industry, he most recently was CEO of UBM TechWeb. Uphoff sat down this month during the Online Marketing Summit in San Diego to discuss his plans for Business....

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...

Business.com's new CEO focuses on social, mobile and local

Posted on: 02/26/13

Business.com Media named Tony Uphoff as its new CEO in mid-January. A veteran of more than 20 years in the business information and media industry, he most recently was CEO of UBM TechWeb. Uphoff sat down this month during the Online Marketing Summit in San Diego to discuss his plans for Business....

UBM to sell data services business

Posted on: 02/06/13

London—B-to-b media company UBM has agreed to sell most of its data services business to private equity firm Electra Partners for about $251 million.

InformationWeek debuts education tech website

Posted on: 01/25/13

San Francisco—UBM Tech has introduced InformationWeek Education, a website and quarterly digital magazine for technology executives and administrators at colleges and universities.

New direction for marketing at Penton

Posted on: 01/22/13

Media Business: What will be your early initiatives?Spellman: At this point, I'll be auditing what does and what does not make sense. We really are looking at things across the company rather than division by division to see what makes sense from a best-practices, centralized area; and (we'll) then ...

Business.com names Uphoff CEO

Posted on: 01/15/13

Carlsbad, Calif.—Business.com Media, which connects b-to-b buyers and marketers, has named Tony Uphoff CEO and director. Uphoff, who succeeds Ryan Peddycord, was most recently CEO of UBM TechWeb.

UBM Tech names Connolly exec VP-sales for events

Posted on: 01/09/13

San Francisco—Media company UBM Tech has named Kathleen Connolly as exec VP-sales for its business technology events group. She succeeds Marco Pardi, who is now president of UBM Tech's business technology events business.

UBM Tech evolves event technology strategy

Posted on: 01/08/13

UBM Tech introduced an online environment to support its DESIGN West conference last year, offering engineers a social environment in which they could rate content, make recommendations and interact. The platform, developed by UBM Studios and called DESIGN on Demand, won multiple awards from the...

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...

Penton names Spellman senior VP-marketing

Posted on: 01/08/13

New York—Penton Media has named Kate Spellman senior VP-marketing. She will report to Penton CEO David Kieselstein and serve as a member of its executive committee.

UBM units introduce website for IT decision-makers

Posted on: 11/02/12

New York—UBM TechWeb and UBM DeusM have rolled out Enterprise Conversation, a new website for IT decision-makers.

Buyers on the hunt for data products

Posted on: 11/02/12

The accelerating pace of change in the marketplace is prompting b-to-b media companies with considerable print exposure to sell those assets sooner rather than later, according to Baran Rosen, president of media investment bank Whitestone Communications. “Reed Business Information is an...

Possibility of USPS eliminating Saturday delivery has publishers seeking alternatives

Posted on: 11/02/12

The U.S. Postal Service loses billions of dollars every quarter and hit its $15 billion borrowing limit from Congress for the first time this year. Postmaster General John Potter has been saying for years that one way for the struggling organization to save a whole lot of money is to deliver mail...