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Marketsize of magazines in India
Last year Mint had carried an article about magazines in India planning on Indian language editions in order to increase their reach. Kind of late in publishing the summary of that article [Niche English magazines plan vernacular editions – no longer available on livemint.com] but better late than never, Magazines Hello!, Lonely Planet, Better Photography […]
Print ad market growing in Tamil, will we see the same online?
Mint recently carried an article “Print action shifts to Tamil Nadu as advertising market grows”. Some important points about print advertising from the state of Tamil Nadu, Advertising market in Tamil Nadu is booming leading to the launch of new English and Tamil newspapers/magazines Maran family owned Tamil paper Dinakaran is in the process of […]
Online ad revenue to surpass newspapers in U.S. by 2014
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook for 2010 to 2014 the ad revenue market would look like, Television remains in first Online and mobile ads, excluding mobile ads, are projected to expand from $24.2 billion in 2009 to $34.4 billion in 2014 Newspaper sales are estimated to fall from $24.82 billion in 2009 […]
Has ‘project go online’ for Indian newspapers failed?
Afaq’s article “Have Indian print publishers lost their way online?” is very interesting. The authors have analyzed this ‘ever debated’ topic in detail. Some highlights, Many Indian newspapers have gone online for over 10 years. In the last 10 years, online advertising has grown from virtually nothing to Rs 850 crore (source, GroupM) The share […]
