Bezos, Pecker, and the American Magazine Business
Last week’s bombshell post from Jeff Bezos, in which the billionaire Amazon founder and The Washington Post owner revealed AMI’s “offer he couldn’t refuse,” relates directly to consumer magazine publishers [...]
Struggling Soap Opera Titles Change Hands
Performance Marketing
ABC’s decision to cancel the soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live is producing a ripple effect in the me
Shakeup at Star Magazine
Performance Marketing
Candace Trunzo, the editor-in-chief of American Media Inc.’s Star magazine since 2007, was given the boot on Monday night.
Wife-standing-on-penis ad bothers Australia
Creativity
The most-complained-about Australian ad of the year? It's this erectile-dysfunction spot from the Advanced Medical Institute, showing a wife using her husband's erection as a step stool to get something [...]
Aussie ad shames guys for problems in bed
Creativity
It takes a lot to offend Australians, but targeting the premature ejaculators among them has done the trick. The country's Advertising Standards Bureau received several complaints about the Advanced Medical [...]