Q3 Magazine Sales Details

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Among major monthly titles experiencing healthy growth were National Geographic (23.8%), Shape (9.5%), and Consumer Reports (7.0%). (Is it just a coincidence that National Geographic and Consumer Reports have also invested heavily in their web sites? Maybe digital and print are not enemies after all.)

 Sales for the Top 50 publications, which include most of the celebrity weeklies, were down 8.3%. But the next 50 actually increased their sales 7.4%. Nearly one-third of the Top 100 enjoyed increases, according to MagNet.

 Another favorable trend: Less waste. Publishers responded to weakening newsstand sales by distributing 64 million fewer copies than they did a year ago, including a 15.7% reduction for weeklies. But because unit sales did not decline as much as the reduction in draw, the proportion of newsstand copies that were sold increased by nearly 2 percentage points for the weeklies and nearly 1 percentage point for the non-weeklies.

Modest Ad Growth Predicted for 2013

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/188262/zo-groupm-predict-ad-spend-hits-574b-by-2015.html#axzz2E0asMOC2

Top forecasters said Monday they expect modest ad-spending growth over the next few years. Predictions were offered by ZenithOptimedia, GroupM and Magna Global at the UBS Global Media & Communications Conference in New York Monday. (See separate story on Magna forecast).
Global ad spending will pick up a little steam in the future, according to Publicis Groupe’s ZenithOptimedia. Spending will climb from 4.1% growth in 2013 for a total of $518 billion to 5.6% growth in 2015, reaching $574 billion.

Sports Illustrated with 3 New Books

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/188308/sports-illustrated-debuts-3-new-sports-books.html#axzz2E0asMOC2 
Sports Illustrated is known for both its extensive game coverage and extraordinary photography. To extend the franchise, Sports Illustrated has published three new books that feature: the NFL’s greatest players of all time; the league’s most successful franchise; and an inside look at professional boxing.

Redesign of Glamour.com

Glamour.com Sees Social-Focused Redesign:
In March, Condé Nast’s Glamour magazine reintroduced itself to the world with a redesigned publication. The idea for the redesign, editor-in-chief Cindi Levie told FOLIO: in an interview, came from a need to update the magazine to reflect the desires and personalities of contemporary women.

New Era of Hybrid Media

Edelman’s Rubel: Get Ready for a New Era of Hybrid Media:
If traditional marketers are like zebras, and media companies are like elephants, then the media world of the future will be nearly completely mixed up, creating “zebelephants,” said Steve Rubel, EVP/Global Strategy of Edelman.
Rubel, speaking at the Mashable Media Summit in New York last week, described a world where marketers and media companies have taken on the characteristics of the other, and where media companies, in order to thrive in a new environment, need to embrace the new structure.

New Corp's CEO Resigns

New Corp's chief executive resigns:
Mockridge's resignation was confirmed by News Corp yesterday. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said his "decision to step down is absolutely and entirely his own".After Mockridge was parachuted in by News International following the resignation of Rebekah Brooks, many considered him a likely candidate to lead News Corp's new publishing arm.However, the Wall Street Journal reported that "people familiar with the matter" had said its own managing editor, Robert Thomson, could be named as head of the corporation's publishing arm this week.

Consumers Favor Print & TV Ads to Digital

Consumers Continue to Favor Offline Ads; Most Digital Formats Lose Ground: A new consumer attitude study finds that even in this digital-centric climate, Americans are likely to view offline media ads most favorably -- while most digital formats have experienced a decrease in favorability. The 2012 AdReaction study, focusing on consumer opinions and perceptions of advertising, finds that even in this digital-centric climate, U.S. consumers are likely to view offline media ads most favorably -- with TV viewed in a positive light by 49% of respondents, followed by magazine ads (41%), and newspaper ads (40%).

EURO-GRAPH Reports Coated & SC Ships

EURO-GRAPH reported October European coated mechanical paper shipments rose +0.1%, demand increased +0.1% and exports declined -0.1%, Coated woodfree shipments was up +6%, demand rose +3.2% and exports jumped +20.6%. Supercalendered paper shipments fell -0.9%, demand rose +3.3% and exports declined -17.5%.

NS Legislation to Reduce Port Hawk Taxes

Nova Scotia legislation would reduce Cape Breton mill's municipal tax bill:
An agreement between Richmond County and a paper mill in Port Hawkesbury to reduce the operation's municipal taxes is being written into law by the Nova Scotia government.

Municipal Relations Minister John MacDonell says amendments to the Stora Enso Taxation Act would see taxes paid by the mill remain at $2.6 million for 2012-13, with former owner NewPage and Port Hawkesbury Paper Group Ltd. each paying $1.3 million.

MacDonell says Port Hawkesbury Paper would then pay $1.3 million in taxes for three years, beginning on April 1.

The legislation which was tabled at the request of the municipality, would expire on March 31, 2016.

The tax deal was reached following a court battle between the mill's owner and the municipality.

In a ruling in September, a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge rejected a bid by the mill to cancel the previous tax deal.

Sappi Increases NBHK Price

Sappi Fine Paper North America informed domestic customers today that its northern bleached hardwood kraft (NBHK) market pulp prices would increase $20/tonne, effective December 1 until further notice.

Sappi's $20/tonne price increase would bring North American list price on NBHK to $755-765/tonne depending on grade.

Arjowiggins Raises European CWF Prices

The situation of continuing rising costs of raw materials, energy and transport has made it necessary for Arjowiggins Graphic to review current price levels, and following this review implement a price increase to help offset the rising costs being incurred.

As a consequence of these adverse conditions that we are facing, we regret that it is unavoidable to announce this price increase for our CWF paper range on both sheets and reels during January 2013.

Fire at FutureMark Mill Contained

http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?id=831505#.ULjtvoXZGKw

The Manistique Public Safety and Volunteer Fire Officers were called to a reported fire at the FutureMark Paper Mill, formerly known as Manistique Papers, Thursday evening at 8:14.

Employees reported that the fire was located in a storage pile of paper bales located outside, adjacent to the building near a clippings shed.

China Single Largest User Illegal Lumber

http://www.eia-international.org/china-worlds-top-buyer-of-illegal-timber-drives-deforestation

China, emergent superpower and the world’s second biggest economy, is effectively standing on the sidelines as its exponential growth devastates forests in a trade worth billions of dollars a year.

In the new report Appetite for Destruction: China’s Trade in Illegal Timber, launched today in Beijing, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals that China is now the single largest international consumer of illegal timber, importing wood stolen by organised criminal syndicates on a massive scale.

Brown Printing Signs Deal with National Standard

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Brown Printing has signed a multi-year agreement to print and distribute The Weekly Standard.

Under the agreement, starting in December 2012, Brown will produce The Standard at its East Greenville facility and distribute the magazine using local and regional entry into the USPS system as well as airfreight to western states, thus enabling faster delivery. The Weekly Standard has subscribers in every state and a paid circulation of approximately 95,000.

Bonnier Shutters Caribbean Travel + Life

Bonnier Shutters Caribbean Travel + Life Magazine and Related TV Show:
Bonnier Corporation’s Caribbean Travel + Life magazine will cease publication beginning next year. Additionally, its Discovery Channel television program will not be revived.

Digital Magazine Readership Up 47%

http://www.adweek.com/news/press/digital-only-magazine-readership-nearly-50-percent-145490

Magazines’ newsstand sales may be struggling, but there’s a bright spot when it comes to digital readership. Today, GfK MRI released its fall 2012 Survey of the American Consumer, which tracks print and digital magazine readership, and found that magazine readership had increased by 1.6 percent (or nearly 20 million people) to 1.2 billion people since last spring. That was helped by a significant bump in digital consumption: Readership of magazines' digital editions jumped 47 percent, or 4.4 million people, to more than 13.5 million.

Q3 Out-of-Home Ads Up 4.4%

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/188246/outdoor-revenues-up-44-benefits-from-digital-oo.html#axzz2DjBuwRms

Out-of-home advertising revenues grew 4.4% to over $1.5 billion in the third quarter, up from around $1.4 billion in the same period of 2011, according to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America.
Overall, the media and advertising category increased 6% in the third quarter compared to 2011. The period also saw ample political ad spending, with the government, politics, and organizations segment up 14% compared to the same period in 2011.

The Economist Unbundles Tablet From Print

http://adage.com/article/media/economist-unbundles-tablet-editions-print-subs/238566/

Time Inc. gives its print subscribers access to tablet and smartphone apps under a strategy it calls "All Access" -- designed in part to shore up print. But it gave up on an attempt to use that more robust package to underpin a price hike at Sports Illustrated from $39 to $48. Rival publishers such as Hearst and Conde Nast, meanwhile, have resolutely sold app subscriptions separately, figuring they're leaving money on the table otherwise.
Now an important independent magazine is leaving the "All Access" camp: The Economist last month stopped bundling app access with all new print subscriptions, charging more to newcomers who want both and introducing a print option that comes without apps.

Latin American Printing Forecast to Grow 4% in 2012

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A study produced by the Graphics of the Americas Expo & Conference (GOA) forecasts a positive state for the print industry in Latin America, a core GOA audience, in 2013.

Produced annually by the Printing Association of Florida, and now in its 38th year, GOA is held February 21-23, 2013, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

Based on statistics reported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the study reveals that the Latin America printing industry remained positive for most of the last decade, with a projected growth of 4% in 2013. The projected GDP in 2013 for Latin America and the Caribbean is 3.9%.

Labor Strike Affects CA Ports

A strike that began at the Oakland, CA, port yesterday apparently spread to the port in Long Beach, contacts said today.

"They have basically closed all ports this afternoon in Long Beach," said one California paper trader.

The Southern California port action involved clerical workers, not longshoremen, contacts said.

In Northern California, a trader today said that a contact said that APM Terminals Pier 400 "has been on strike" since yesterday and that "today Yusen (Terminals), Evergreen, Hyundai California United Terminals, (and) China Shipping ... have added to the list."

Also at Oakland, on Nov. 20, Service Employees International union 200 workers disrupted shipping at the port, local media reported.