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A launch test programme designed to predict market performance for new youth magazines

Test marketing new magazine ideas is not an economically feasible operation for I.P.C. Magazines' Youth Group. However, I.P.C.'s editorial and marketing expertise, gained over many years of publishing in the youth market, enables it to minimise the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Publishing A Better Product

Author: Hilary Cross

November 23, 1983

A new magazine creates a new wave to a long established market (Italian)

The magazine "Se og Hor" was started in September 1978. At that time, about 2,2 million magazines were sold every week in Norway, in a community counting a total of 4 million people. The magazine was accorded a probation time of 6 months to reach a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Publishing A Better Product

Author: Knut Kaavik

November 23, 1983

Product life cycle

This paper questions the concept of product life-cycle, and makes the point that in both theoretical and practical marketing it has often been used as an excuse for non-action. The analogy with human life has only served to reinforce it as a valid...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Publishing A Better Product

Author: Giampaolo Fabris

Company: Demoskopea

November 23, 1983

The mail on Sunday

The object of this paper is to tell the story of the launch of The Mail on Sunday and how it nearly came to disaster; was relaunched and how it arrived in the position in which we currently find it which is the fastest growing newspaper in Fleet...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Publishing A Better Product

Author: Mike A. Newman

November 23, 1983

The role of the readers of Panorama and Grazia in the interpersonal communication process

The paper illustrates the first application in Italy of two new qualitative variables applied to the study of readership.

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Publishing A Better Product

Authors: Arnaldo Aisa, Luisa Pogliana

November 23, 1983

Product life cycle (Italian)

This paper questions the concept of product life-cycle, and makes the point that in both theoretical and practical marketing it has often been used as an excuse for non-action. The analogy with human life has only served to reinforce it as a valid...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Publishing A Better Product

Author: Giampaolo Fabris

Company: Demoskopea

November 23, 1983

The positioning of two leader magazines in the women's "A" and news magazines periodical market (Italian)

This paper illustrates the policies set by Arnoldo Mondadori to maintain its magazines continually in line with the cultural evolutions of the Italian society. A number of specific strategies within the "Women's Magazines A" and the "News Magazines"...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Publishing A Better Product

Author: Andreina Vanni

November 23, 1983

The international newspaper

In the Spring of 1981, the 1980 European research programme was adapted and used in South East Asia. The main objective of this study was to look at the impact of the launch in S.E. Asia and to check that the editorial content of the newspaper was...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Publishing A Better Product

Authors: David S. Mitchell, Barbara R. Lewis

November 23, 1983

Making the editorial matter of medical magazines more attractive

In Germany two continuous research services are available measurement the relative readership of the editorial elements in 30 major medical magazines. One service is private, the other one is part of the syndicated audience research organisation...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Publishing A Better Product

Authors: Ilse Meier, Gerhard Zacharias

November 23, 1983