MediaWeek Report (Vol 12, No 1): Flipboard Magazine - America's Test Kitchen, NYPL & Instagram, Textbooks, Blockchain in Publishing

Check out more interesting articles from my flipboard magazine for publishing and media.

Here is an excerpt from one of the articles I've clipped about America's Test Kitchen (Digiday):

“America’s Test Kitchen made a strategic decision 20 years ago, and I think that that was atypical at the time but prescient because they built a stable business, not one that is dependent on episodic ad revenue,” said Peter Doucette, a managing director in the Telecom, Media & Technology practice at FTI Consulting.

America’s Test Kitchen’s subscriptions business, which currently has 1.3 million paid print subscribers between its Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country magazines and 420,000 paid digital subscribers, makes up 60% of the company’s overall revenue, and CEO David Nussbaum said this area is experiencing double-digit growth year over year. That’s why on Jan. 2, Nussbaum said the company has a pretty good idea what the revenue will be that year, based on how many subscriptions they have. Recurring revenue is a helluva drug.

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