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johnbrooker
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Topic: Sailing Today with Yachts & Yachting? Takeover? Posted: 10 Apr 20 at 8:44am |
I hope it's not permanent. This covid situation may have promoted it but it could well become a permanent change
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tink
Really should get out more Joined: 23 Jan 16 Location: North Hants Online Status: Offline Posts: 788 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 Apr 20 at 5:59pm |
Both magazines have a printed circulation of 30K. Sailing today has been since 1997 but hasn’t got a particular strong online presence.
Chelsea magazines have number of publications, Classic Boat 50K and English Home ? 71K. Advertising revenue will be reduced as we are surely doing to loose a few sailing business - I imagine we are close to Sailing Industry Black Friday- day. I imagine Y&Y will only exist on line next year, how much will our community pay for exclusive content?
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Tink
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Oinks
Far too distracted from work Joined: 24 Oct 14 Location: Bandol Online Status: Offline Posts: 267 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 Apr 20 at 5:38pm |
Given the current situation, I'd say the title Sailing Today is a bit of a non-starter.
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iGRF
Really should get out more Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6496 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 Apr 20 at 9:55am |
Well maybe it's me with an old guard perspective but I'd have thought Yachts & Yachting with Sailing Today would have been more appropriate given the Yachts & Yachting titles seniority, or have things changed that much in lead mine world..
Either way fully agree, no coming back from this, Y&Y is done as a print entity, does Sailing Today even have an online presence, can't really be asked to even look.. |
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423zero
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08 Apr 20 at 10:03pm |
Lots of things won't survive, who would have thought this time last year when planning for Bank Holiday weekend, that in 2020 we would be checking our food supplies.
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Rupert
Really should get out more Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08 Apr 20 at 5:49pm |
Anyone taking odds on whether y&y survives covid?
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Gordon 1430
Far too distracted from work Joined: 27 Jun 17 Location: Lee on Solent Online Status: Offline Posts: 310 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08 Apr 20 at 2:34pm |
If you read the notes it says only for the duration of Covid 19.
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tink
Really should get out more Joined: 23 Jan 16 Location: North Hants Online Status: Offline Posts: 788 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 07 Apr 20 at 6:49pm |
Sailing Today frequently in news agents when Y&Y isn’t. People than need to add lots of weight to their boats so they can sail them are far more attractive to advertisers than real sailors.
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Tink
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423zero
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 07 Apr 20 at 5:30pm |
You can get a lot of magazines with Amazon prime, I used to have MCN, printed, only printed magazine I have now is from caravan club.
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Do Different
Really should get out more Joined: 26 Jan 12 Location: North Online Status: Offline Posts: 1312 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 07 Apr 20 at 5:20pm |
I don't know when it happened but suddenly I find that all glossy magazines seem outrageously expensive. It could be that I've become all miserly with age or that magazines have had to increase cover prices as circulation has fallen.
Heavy glossies also seem rather wasteful to me nowadays and best will in the world if you subscribe to pretty much any hobby magazine for more than two years you'll see the same topics being rehashed
Is there a place for a cheaper newsprint magazine, I believe MCN is still going. |
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