Launch the community, then the magazine
The way Future is launching its consumer magazines these days is pretty smart. They don’t just launch a magazine, then try to develop a community around it – they launch the social media presence first:
“It creates a buzz and you also get people who want to contribute to you magazine. Once they realise that it’s a brand, writers and photographers and bloggers will make contact. It’s not only a consumer community but it’s also people who will contribute to the product and advertisers as the Facebook page allows us to create a dialogue with potential commercial partners.”
It’s a clever, agile and iterative approach to both building a product, and having an audience ready at launch.
Sign up for e-mail updates
Join the newsletter to receive the latest posts in your inbox.
Some Good Reading About The Future of News Paid Members Public
Good stuff I’ve read recently, haven’t linked to yet, but don’t have much to add to right now: * The Nichepaper Manifesto [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/07/the_nichepaper_manifesto.html] – an articulate and well argued guide to how niche publishing might looks going forwards. * Media