Resources Library by ANA

A new look at a popular women's weekly

This paper traces the research conducted between July 1985 to September 1987 to assist in the reshaping of Woman's Realm, a popular U.K. women's weekly magazine. In 1984 circulations were falling year on year making it increasingly difficult to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Publishing For Optimum Profit

Author: Simon Godfrey

November 25, 1987

Editorial research on a syndicated basis

Editorial Research carried out on behalf of a single publication or some publications belonging to the same publisher is well known. Syndicated research for advertising purposes - media planning and selling media space - is well known too, but the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Publishing For Optimum Profit

Author: Sigurd Bennike

November 25, 1987

Goelette II

Goelette II, which succeeds to Goelette I, is a sales forecasting system for dispatching at the time of each issue MARIE-CLAIRE Group magazines into the distribution network of the "Presse en France". The primary objective of the system is to keep an...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Publishing For Optimum Profit

Authors: Gilbert Haas, Gilles Santini

November 25, 1987

Sports coverage in daily newspapers

This report covers our findings on peoples’ use, views and opinions of the sports coverage of the Daily Express and its three main rivals - the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mirror (plus in Scotland, the Daily Record)....

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Publishing For Optimum Profit

Author: Iain McLellan

November 25, 1987

Notre temps

The research project presented in this paper was articulated as follow: 1. Research for re-positioning (1980); 2. Following researches (up to 1987); 3. Other kinds of researches about non publishing products.The results of the programme were: 1....

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Publishing For Optimum Profit

Author: Anne Coudreau

November 25, 1987

Using sources of readership data for editorial research

This report covers our findings on peoples' use, views and opinions of the sports coverage of the Daily Express and its three main rivals - the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mirror (plus in Scotland, the Daily Record). Information has...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Publishing For Optimum Profit

Author: Jochen Hansen

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

November 25, 1987

Media profit and market gaps

13 Danish magazines are looked at as branded goods with perceptions and images that can be measured among the consumers. They are competitors, although the editorial content varies between women- family- and TV-magazines. Can these magazines be...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Publishing For Optimum Profit

Authors: Hanne Treu Olsen, Ole Ejnar Andersen

November 25, 1987

Using an integrated marketing data-base for women's weeklies in the Netherlands

In 1985 VNU was confronted with a rather sudden decline in the circulation of a large part of their magazines. As a matter of course the reaction was: try to find the reasons for this decline! In summer 1985 it was decided to start a comprehensive...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Publishing For Optimum Profit

Author: John Rodenburg

November 25, 1987

Innovation

In the 1960's Tom and Audrey Eyton started a bi-monthly magazine, Slimming and Nutrition, working on their kitchen table at home. It cost them £2,000 to start: some years ago they sold it to a big publisher for £4,000,000. That’s...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Publishing For Optimum Profit

Author: Michael Bird

November 25, 1987