Posts tagged as Conde Nast
Let's Say the 'New Yorker' iPad Publication Makes $58K a Week
The data we're allowed to have from places like Conde Nast makes it a little difficult to parse, but this helps: "between its eight magazines with tablet editions, the company has 242,000 digital customers." Good night, nurse! Your revolution is... maybe next year? (That being said, I'd love to see income numbers from that. It's gotta be somewhere from $1.2 million to $2.6 million, I figure? The problem is counting people who get iPad access "bundled" with magazine subscriptions; where people get counted is important!) And language is tricky! READ MORE
Condé Nast World Trade Center: For Real!?
In today's most shocking media news: "Publishing giant Conde Nast is likely to finalize its 1 million-square-foot lease at One World Trade Center by March, developer Douglas Durst told Crain's today." One meeeeeelllion square feet! God, they must be getting an amazing rate, given how much, oh, everyone who works at Condé Nast despises the idea. They would become only the second tenant to sign up for the World Trade Center (though they claim, with this and other current interest, they'd have 85% leased), which will be completed sometime when our grandchildren will care. (Presumably there will still be magazines in that future.)
No One Shot At Conde Nast
"We have received reports that a firearm has been discharged on the 10th floor of 750 building, 3rd Avenue in New York. If you are in a safe location, remain where you are. Get behind a locked door, or hide behind some type of obstruction. Lay down on the floor, and remain as quite as possible. Evacuate the facility only if you deem this safe or necessary." Don't worry, Conde Nasties: that crazy email you all just got? It was just a drill.
Inside Anna Wintour's Long Island Home
The always-magical World of Interiors October issue has wended its way to America at last, and? "US Vogue editor Anna Wintour now has a second Long Island bolthole," promises the table of contents. (It would be a coverline of course but that magazine doesn't have words on its cover, which, can you imagine that in America?) That particular rurality is generally described as Bellport, Long Island, except it's decidedly in Shirley. ("I just import the people I want.... I don't mind the town. It's white trash, of course, but I don't care," Wintour famously-and humorously!-once said.) But! However! And! So this guide to ANNA WINTOUR'S RURAL RETREAT is "written" by Anna Wintour herself, except it's "as she explains to Sally Singer." And it's awesome. READ MORE
Ad Obliterates 'New Yorker' Website
I will now never, ever listen to the "mainstream media" (am using that semi-ironically, yes) talk about "the sanctity of editorial" or how "weblogs are destroying church v. state journalism" or "Chinese walls" after Conde Digital put this ad for Smart cars on the New Yorker website. It's an ad that literally covers and then obliterates the entire content of the website. This is something that web-only, newfangled publications like those of Gawker Media would most likely never do, as much as their ad honcho would enjoy it. (I mean, we might do it! For the right price! Inquire within! Heh.) But I'm not sure that the New York Post would even go for it; to see Conde do it is astounding.
Conde Nast Loves "Virtual Currency"
Conde Nast's new web strategy: "virtual currency." It's basically going to turn Gourmet's archives into an app and then mix it up with Farmville or something. I'm scared. Hold me.
New York City: Still Full of Heathers
You're a spiffy kiddo in the big city! You've gotten a job (okay, an internship) at Conde Nast! This is awesome. And of course you work there because you're fashion-forward, and smarter than those jerks back in high school in [funny-sounding name of semi-rural American city goes here]. But now here you are, in the glamorous cafeteria, grabbing some quick edamame or something. And, guess what? The bigger girls are taking stealth pictures of you and making fun of your outfit on Facebook. I'm sorry, it's true! You need to know this. READ MORE
What Do You Call Conde Nast at the Freedom Tower?
The publishing giant/dinosaur/juggernaut Conde Nast is "considering" a move to the totally not built Freedom Tower downtown and the naming rights are tricky! We were thinking COOKIE: NEVER FORGET but there's also other good choices, such as SI TOWN and GRAYDON GARDENS.
The Efficiency Of The Town Car
"I think we're coming down in our perk-distribution and looking more like others. I'm not saying that our editors can't fly first class; I'm saying you choose how to spend your money. If the most efficient way to do business is to take a Town Car, then for Christ sake, I'm not going to insist people take subways and destroy their approach to business. I'm just asking people to be sensible." READ MORE
