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Earnings: Economist.com Users Up 39 Percent, Annual Revenues Up Eight Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 19 Jun 2008 05:01 PM PST

At three million, Economist.com got 39 percent more unique users in a year that saw eight percent higher revenue. Results for the year to March 2008 showed 199 million page…

Industry Moves: Economist CEO Leaving, Replaced By Ex Online Boss - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Apr 2008 08:00 AM PST

The Economist Group CEO Helen Alexander is leaving the publisher after 23 years to become an adviser to private equity house Bain Capital. Her replacement, from July 15, will be…

Economist Fails To Win Domain Name From Greenspan ‘Tribute’ Site - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 19 Feb 2008 06:18 AM PST

File under “You Couldn’t Make It Up”. The Economist magazine, which is online at economist.com, has failed in its bid to win control of the theeconomist.com domain, because its owner…

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Economist Ready To Try ‘Social Networking’ Again - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 20 Dec 2007 03:28 AM PST

Despite a brave R&D project that ended without any concrete output, The Economist may yet start a “social network” for its readers. The magazine’s £100,000 Project Red Stripe ended in…

Earnings: Online Makes Up 17 Percent Of Economist’s Revenues - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 03 Dec 2007 07:11 AM PST

Economist Group‘s online advertising revenue grew 15 percent year-on-year, interim results for the year to September 30 show. That’s not as fast as it’s growing at some other publishers out…

Economist Taps Red Stripe Detritus To ‘Build A Purely Online Audience’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 20 Nov 2007 03:56 AM PST

The Economist’s 10-month web R&D project may have ended without having brought any output to market, but the publisher is now sifting through the leftover scraps for what could be…

Economist’s Micklethwaite Rides Web Storm, Magazines ‘Not Directly Hit’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 09 Nov 2007 10:22 AM PST

The Economist’s editor-in-chief John Micklethwaite has given an interview to Mediabistro (via Innovations In Newspapers) documenting his conversion, whilst awaiting the internet, from rabbit in the headlights to online navigator.…

@ FOBM: Economist.com Maintains Free/Subscription Mix - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 30 Oct 2007 06:37 AM PST

It doesn’t look like The Economist is going to join the growing pack and switch its website further from subscription access to an ad-supported. Economist.com articles older than 365 days…

Economist Launching 160-Year Online Archive, Guardian Archive Costs £8 A Day - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 18 Oct 2007 01:25 AM PST

The Economist is the latest publication to try to monetise the ass off its long tail - it’s launched The Economist Historical Archive online including the over 600,000 pages from…

Economist Weathering Online Storm, Thanks To Print Reliance - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Sun 07 Oct 2007 01:14 PM PST

In an interview with today’s Observer, The Economist editor John Micklethwaite suggests his news magazine has weathered the internet storm surprisingly well: ‘A hurricane hit newspapers. But there seem to…

Economist Shows Signs Of Intelligent Life As Luxury Ad Budgets Rise - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 03 Sep 2007 12:49 AM PST

The Economist has published the first edition of its high-end Intelligent Life magazine on its new quarterly schedule. The re-designed publication, which had two previous outings on an annual basis,…

Economist Innovation Project Ends Without A Product; Community Idea In “Cold Storage” - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 30 Jul 2007 11:56 AM PST

A 10-month project web innovation project run by The Economist has ended with no site having come out of the exercise. Based in London and started in September 2006, Project…

Economist.com on the Economics of Sponsorships - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 08 May 2003 01:05 PM PST

Economist.com has taken the concept of content sponsorships further than perhaps any other player in the online media industry. Mike Seery, the CTO of The Economist Group, spoke on detail…