March 24, 2015

Hearst Magazines: Digital Single-Copy Sales Are Up, But Digital Subscriptions Are Down

There is good news and bad news for Hearst magazines. The good news is that digital single copy sales for 2014 are up by more than 100,000. The bad news is that Hearst’s top magazines – Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, O, the Oprah Magazine, Woman’s Day, Redbook and Seventeen – lost more than 100,000 digital subscriptions as of December 2014. Cosmopolitan, the biggest earner in the bunch, accounts for the majority of that loss, down more…

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Don’t Keep Digging: How Digital and Knowledge Frees You

We need a new website! Our sales aren’t meeting target, so the website must be the cause. We need a new app! We want to increase engagement, and that’s how everyone else doing it. You’ve probably heard one or more of those storylines…probably in the last week or two. The antidote to endless hype is the specific, targeted data that tell you how to apply wider trends to your audience and product. Until you understand the unique problems facing your organization, the Hype Trap leaves you shoveling more dirt into the bottomless hole.

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