Like other toy companies, Hasbro appears to be struggling to keep its core audience of kids from defecting to video games in a quarter where it didn’t enjoy a jolt of cash from movie licensing as it did last year with its tie-ins to Paramount’s Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. The company says this morning that its Q3 net earnings were $164.9M, -3.6% vs the period last year, on revenues of $1.35B, -2.2%. Analysts expected revenues to come in slightly higher at $1.38B. Earnings per share, at $1.24, beat expectations for $1.20 — and would have been better if foreign exchange rates were more favorable. In Entertainment and Licensing, revenues fell 6.9% to $43.1M while operating profits dropped 30.1% to $10.7M. The company doesn’t break out results for The Hub, its cable channel joint venture with Discovery. But Hasbro says that the entertainment unit benefited from TV programming sales in the U.
- 10/22/2012
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
- Deadline TV
The announcement:
Acp Magazines is delighted to announce that Health & Wellbeing Weekend will take place in Sydney on Saturday, 20 and Sunday, 21 October at First Fleet Park, The Rocks. The cross platform editorial initiative is designed to promote health awareness and physical and emotional wellbeing.
Health & Wellbeing Weekend is a free event and features exercise classes such as yoga, Pilates and Zumba, product sampling, onsite massages, manicures, makeovers and skin care consultations, plus celebrity seminars and expert advice on how to look after yourself inside and out.
Over 2,000 readers are expected to attend, registering for sessions at the event’s on-line hub, www.healthandwb.com.au. The website also features giveaways, healthy recipes and a workout section.
Deborah Thomas, Acp Magazines’ Director, Media, Public Affairs and Brand Development, said: “Health & Wellbeing Weekend is a great incentive to get your health and wellbeing on track. The weekend provides an outstanding opportunity through...
Acp Magazines is delighted to announce that Health & Wellbeing Weekend will take place in Sydney on Saturday, 20 and Sunday, 21 October at First Fleet Park, The Rocks. The cross platform editorial initiative is designed to promote health awareness and physical and emotional wellbeing.
Health & Wellbeing Weekend is a free event and features exercise classes such as yoga, Pilates and Zumba, product sampling, onsite massages, manicures, makeovers and skin care consultations, plus celebrity seminars and expert advice on how to look after yourself inside and out.
Over 2,000 readers are expected to attend, registering for sessions at the event’s on-line hub, www.healthandwb.com.au. The website also features giveaways, healthy recipes and a workout section.
Deborah Thomas, Acp Magazines’ Director, Media, Public Affairs and Brand Development, said: “Health & Wellbeing Weekend is a great incentive to get your health and wellbeing on track. The weekend provides an outstanding opportunity through...
- 9/23/2012
- by Cathie McGinn
- Encore Magazine
The jury members for this year’s Mumbrella Awards can be today revealed.
The 27 jurors are among the most senior and experienced panels seen for an industry awards.
The official closing date for the Mumbrella Awards is this Friday.
The chairman of the juries is Telstra’s chief marketing officer Mark Buckman.
The jury features marketers from some of Australia’s biggest brands, recruiters and headhunters who have had a hand in some of the biggest roles in the industry and consultants whose expertise spans the entire landscape. To minimise conflict, there are few people on the jury with current agency roles, although many of the jurors have in depth experience on agency side.
The jury:
Chairman of juries – Mark Buckman, chief marketing officer, Telstra
Peter Cornelius, principal, Kinesis Media Nick Williams, principal, Williams International William Leach and Sangeeta Leach, owners, The Leach Partnership Esther Clerehan, owner, Clerehan David Thomason,...
The 27 jurors are among the most senior and experienced panels seen for an industry awards.
The official closing date for the Mumbrella Awards is this Friday.
The chairman of the juries is Telstra’s chief marketing officer Mark Buckman.
The jury features marketers from some of Australia’s biggest brands, recruiters and headhunters who have had a hand in some of the biggest roles in the industry and consultants whose expertise spans the entire landscape. To minimise conflict, there are few people on the jury with current agency roles, although many of the jurors have in depth experience on agency side.
The jury:
Chairman of juries – Mark Buckman, chief marketing officer, Telstra
Peter Cornelius, principal, Kinesis Media Nick Williams, principal, Williams International William Leach and Sangeeta Leach, owners, The Leach Partnership Esther Clerehan, owner, Clerehan David Thomason,...
- 8/1/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
This year’s Mumbrella360 is now underway with just over 1000 media, marketing and entertainment professionals descending on the Hilton Hotel in Sydney over the next two days.
Th event will be one of the first to have its numbers audited by the Audit Bureaux of Australia so an official headcount will be available later, but Mumbrella calculated that as of 5pm on Tuesday, 1030 people were expected. Tickets are no longer available online, but are still on sale on the door of the venue.
The event sees around 60 sessions taking place across five streams.
Battle of the Media will be fought again with former Phd CEO Barry O’Brien, former Starcom MD Bob Goodge and Virgin Mobile marketing director David Scribner making up the coaching panel.
Doing battle:
Paul Murray, presenter, 2Ue (radio); Dylan Taylor, managing partner, Bmf (direct mail); Paul Fisher, CEO, Iab Australia (online); Damian Keogh, CEO, Val Morgan (cinema) Brian Hogan,...
Th event will be one of the first to have its numbers audited by the Audit Bureaux of Australia so an official headcount will be available later, but Mumbrella calculated that as of 5pm on Tuesday, 1030 people were expected. Tickets are no longer available online, but are still on sale on the door of the venue.
The event sees around 60 sessions taking place across five streams.
Battle of the Media will be fought again with former Phd CEO Barry O’Brien, former Starcom MD Bob Goodge and Virgin Mobile marketing director David Scribner making up the coaching panel.
Doing battle:
Paul Murray, presenter, 2Ue (radio); Dylan Taylor, managing partner, Bmf (direct mail); Paul Fisher, CEO, Iab Australia (online); Damian Keogh, CEO, Val Morgan (cinema) Brian Hogan,...
- 6/5/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
Acp’s reincarnated computing magazine TechLife, which rose from the ashes of PC User yesterday, has irked publishers already using the TechLife name.
Sbs uses the name for its the blog Tech Life, which is written by technology journalist Trevor Long, who also writes his own similarly named blog Your Tech Life.
However, the name has not been trademarked by a publisher in Australia – so Acp appears to be on legally safe ground.
Sbs marketing director Jacquie Riddell told Mumbrella: “It’s flattering when people steal your name. We could send them a letter advising them that they’re trading on something people know and recognise as ours. But we won’t do that. It’s just a blog.”
Riddell referred to another case of ‘name theft’ two years ago, when New Zealand broadcaster TV3 used the same slogan as Sbs’s ‘Six billion stories and counting’.
“Naming is a...
Sbs uses the name for its the blog Tech Life, which is written by technology journalist Trevor Long, who also writes his own similarly named blog Your Tech Life.
However, the name has not been trademarked by a publisher in Australia – so Acp appears to be on legally safe ground.
Sbs marketing director Jacquie Riddell told Mumbrella: “It’s flattering when people steal your name. We could send them a letter advising them that they’re trading on something people know and recognise as ours. But we won’t do that. It’s just a blog.”
Riddell referred to another case of ‘name theft’ two years ago, when New Zealand broadcaster TV3 used the same slogan as Sbs’s ‘Six billion stories and counting’.
“Naming is a...
- 3/21/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
Acp’s technology title PC User is to be rebranded TechLife.
The magazine will launch in June to address a lack of innovation in the consumer technology publication space, according to the publisher.
It will be available as a print edition, with an online and social media presence as well as tablet and smartphone apps.
Acp’s director of media, public affairs and brand development, Deborah Thomas told Mumbrella in February that PC User was “not in danger of closing”.
TechLife will cover a broader spectrum than PC User, offering editorial on the application of technology to all consumer lifestyle activities, from fitness to entertainment.
The editor of PC User, Glen Rees, left the magazine a month ago.
Tony Sarno, editor of Apc Magazine, will become editor-in-chief of both titles. All PC User editorial staff will move over to the new title.
Tony Sarno (picture supplied)
Sarno said: “Consumer technology...
The magazine will launch in June to address a lack of innovation in the consumer technology publication space, according to the publisher.
It will be available as a print edition, with an online and social media presence as well as tablet and smartphone apps.
Acp’s director of media, public affairs and brand development, Deborah Thomas told Mumbrella in February that PC User was “not in danger of closing”.
TechLife will cover a broader spectrum than PC User, offering editorial on the application of technology to all consumer lifestyle activities, from fitness to entertainment.
The editor of PC User, Glen Rees, left the magazine a month ago.
Tony Sarno, editor of Apc Magazine, will become editor-in-chief of both titles. All PC User editorial staff will move over to the new title.
Tony Sarno (picture supplied)
Sarno said: “Consumer technology...
- 3/21/2012
- by Cathie McGinn
- Encore Magazine
William Friedkin's 1975 interview with Fritz Lang
If you happen to be in the market for Fritz Lang Christmas ornaments, they do exist, though they don't come cheaply. At any rate, much of the third issue of Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism (the successor to Movie, the print journal Ian Cameron edited from 1962 to 2000) is given to the second part of its Fritz Lang dossier featuring — and I should mention before you start clicking that these are PDFs — Stella Bruzzi on Fury (1936), Vf Perkins on You Only Live Once (1937), Edward Gallafent on The Return of Frank James (1940), Adrian Martin on Scarlet Street (1945), Peter William Evans on The Big Heat (1953), Deborah Thomas on Human Desire (1954) and Peter Benson on Moonfleet (1955).
Also in this issue: Christian Keathley on Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Alex Clayton on Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake and John Gibbs on Jamie Thraves's...
If you happen to be in the market for Fritz Lang Christmas ornaments, they do exist, though they don't come cheaply. At any rate, much of the third issue of Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism (the successor to Movie, the print journal Ian Cameron edited from 1962 to 2000) is given to the second part of its Fritz Lang dossier featuring — and I should mention before you start clicking that these are PDFs — Stella Bruzzi on Fury (1936), Vf Perkins on You Only Live Once (1937), Edward Gallafent on The Return of Frank James (1940), Adrian Martin on Scarlet Street (1945), Peter William Evans on The Big Heat (1953), Deborah Thomas on Human Desire (1954) and Peter Benson on Moonfleet (1955).
Also in this issue: Christian Keathley on Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Alex Clayton on Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake and John Gibbs on Jamie Thraves's...
- 12/24/2011
- MUBI
With the grand finale airing tonight, Nine’s end-of-year ratings push has been led five nights a week by the FremantleMedia-produced Celebrity Apprentice. Georgina Pearson visits the set during the show’s six-week Sydney shoot to find out how the series came together.
Celebrity Apprentice is an interesting concept; one that perhaps, on paper, could be deemed a marketing nightmare. For how can you take B-grade Australian celebs and replicate the hugely successful multi-billion dollar Donald Trump-helmed hit?
The crew shoot a challenge episode
For the unfamiliar, the premise is fairly simple: 12 celebrity contestants, each vying for a final prize of $100,000 for their chosen charity. Entrepreneur and founder of wealth management company Yellow Brick Road, Mark Bouris, presides as the ultimate boss. Guided by Acp Magazines’ Deborah Thomas and Bouris’ long time right-hand man Brad Seymour, Bouris puts the contestants through their paces with a series of team challenges...
Celebrity Apprentice is an interesting concept; one that perhaps, on paper, could be deemed a marketing nightmare. For how can you take B-grade Australian celebs and replicate the hugely successful multi-billion dollar Donald Trump-helmed hit?
The crew shoot a challenge episode
For the unfamiliar, the premise is fairly simple: 12 celebrity contestants, each vying for a final prize of $100,000 for their chosen charity. Entrepreneur and founder of wealth management company Yellow Brick Road, Mark Bouris, presides as the ultimate boss. Guided by Acp Magazines’ Deborah Thomas and Bouris’ long time right-hand man Brad Seymour, Bouris puts the contestants through their paces with a series of team challenges...
- 11/21/2011
- by Brooke Hemphill
- Encore Magazine
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