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Nuts magazine to close

Summary :

Nuts, the weekly that along with arch-rival Zoo shook up the men's magazine market a decade ago but attracted criticism for their sexist portrayal of women, is to close. The magazine has suffered years of sales decline, along with most other paid-for titles in the men's sector. Nuts had a circulation of just over 53,000 in print in the second half of 2013, according to the latest official ABC sales figures, plus nearly 9,000 digital editions. Nuts and Zoo's circulations dropped by one third year on year in the second half of 2013, after both titles' publishers pulled them from Co-op stores. This came after they refused the supermarket chain's demand that both magazines be distributed with modesty bags to shield pictures of naked women from shoppers. Argued that the magazine defined from the outset by publishing more overtly sexual content than more expensive monthly rivals such as Loaded and FHM, which were forced go more downmarket in response.  

opinion : 

more people are becoming disgusted by nude images in magazines. 

More people are now concerned with magazines that display too much nudity. Newspaper publishers use e-commerce technology on website photos

summary :

The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mirror are experimenting with technology that turns online photographs into adverts, When people visit pages on the papers' websites, the technology scans the content and works out the most relevant advertisements to display. Then it overlays images of products that readers may wish to buy on the pictures. Paqvalén said other groups - such as The Guardian, DMGT and theHuffington Post, plus the magazine publisher Gruner+Jahr - are also planning to experiment with the technology. 

Conde Nast to replace House and Garden and easy living online editions: 

Summary : Condé Nast is launching a online lifestyle offering closely resembling Pinterest, House, replacing its House & Garden and Easy Living websites. The website is billing as a "sophisticated design, decoration, food and lifestyle" website. The Easy Living website audience – it had an average of 192,000 monthly unique users in the three months to the end of January 2014, according to Google Analytics figures – will be automatically redirected to House. Condé Nast is aiming to build this figure to 300,000 within 18 months and 500,000 in three to four years.

My Opinion : Magazines are now starting to adapt more to new and digital media to get more views and more users, this is done by creating websites. 

NDM STORIES 

1: 20 best iPhone and iPad apps and games this week:

Summary: This week's selection includes pregnancy tracking, vintage newspaper clippings, motorcycle racing, Family Guy, wind-up knights and Embarrassing Bodies. As ever, prices are correct at the time of writing, but may have changed by the time you read this. (Free + IAP) means in-app purchases are used within the app. One born every minute now it has an app aimed at mothers-to-be, helping them track their pregnancies, look at fetal development images, plan doctor visits, and tick off to-do lists. More than that, Here and then from the British newspaper app is for anyone interested in the last 200+ years of history, offering daily reports from the British Newspaper Archive based on that day, another app is the Carousel by Dropbox Carousel which is owned by cloud storage firm Dropbox – its brand new app for storing and browsing your photos and videos. The app automatically uploads shots as you take them, and you can ping them to friends privately from within the app too, this is a free app to download.

Opinion: There are many more apps which have been launched, some for free and some which need to be paid for, however, regardless the prices of these apps the fact that there are apps for many programmes which airs on TV means that apps and new and digital media are challenging traditional media, in this case viewers don’t need to wait to watch their favourite show on TV but can now go on the app and get updated by the latest info.