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220 Triathlon magazine launches swim guide one-shot

220 Triathlon, the UK’s best-selling triathlon title, has launched The Complete Guide to Swimming, a 132-page one-shot for triathletes and swimmers. On sale now priced £7.99, the special edition brings together the world’s finest coaches and athletes to offer triathletes … Continued

22 February 2012

ABCs Jul–Dec 2011: Publishers’ Statements from Immediate Media Co

Note: all figures are rounded up to 0.1 decimal point. YOY = Year on year increases POP = Period on period increase (ie comparing the most recent 6 month period with the previous 6 month period). LONELY PLANET MAGAZINE Title … Continued

17 February 2012

Immediate Media Co posts strong debut ABCs

Annual growth of 0.2%, subscriptions up 5.4% to over 1 million, Pre-school up 24.1%. Immediate Media Company’s debut ABC results show annual growth, with a strong overall circulation figure of 3,354,226 for July-December 2011, up 0.2% year on year and … Continued

16 February 2012

Immediate Media Co appoints Steven Seaton to top team

Immediate Media Co has appointed Steven Seaton as Managing Director of its London Specialist division, the company announced today, 10 February 2012. The newly-created board-level post carries responsibility for all of Immediate Media Co’s lifestyle brands, including parenting, outdoor and … Continued

10 February 2012

Immediate Media launches Girl Talk Art one-shot

  Arts and crafts is a favourite activity among 7-11 year old girls* – a hobby which Girl Talk Art, a new magazine which extends the Girl Talk magazine brand, is indulging. The one-shot magazine, on sale now priced at … Continued

8 February 2012

Cooking for victory: BOGOF Brits take to the stove to beat economic austerity

Canny Brits are ‘cooking from scratch’, using their freezers and hunting down supermarket discounts in unprecedented numbers to save money on food and beat the economic squeeze, according to a Good Food Magazine survey. The Good Food survey, to mark … Continued

8 February 2012

Immediate Media provides menu of more than 200 Gordon Ramsay recipes

Immediate Media Co is making available for syndication an unprecedented archive of Gordon Ramsay recipes from its market leading food portfolio, including olive and Good Food magazines. In collaboration with Ramsay, Immediate Media are supplying a minimum of 200 features … Continued

17 January 2012

BBC Music Magazine announces public voting for 2012 Awards

Voting open at www.classical-music.com/awards2012 From Friday 13 January –Wednesday 29 February 2012 Voting for the seventh annual BBC Music Magazine Awards will open to the public on Friday 13 January on the BBC Music Magazine website. The BBC Music Magazine … Continued

13 January 2012

Immediate Media Co launches iPad apps for Lonely Planet and Top Gear Magazines

                Immediate Media Co, formed out of the merger of BBC Magazines, Origin Publishing and Magicalia in November 2011, has launched two new magazine apps. A Lonely Planet Magazine Dream Trips app and … Continued

12 January 2012

Immediate Media acquires You & Your Wedding and Prima Baby

                                                                                              Immediate Media Co announced today, 11 January 2012, that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the magazine and website assets of You & Your Wedding and Prima Baby & Pregnancy from Hearst Magazines UK … Continued

11 January 2012

It’s a pizza cake as Brits combat tough times with comfort eating, says BBC Good Food

Shedding the pounds with the traditional January detox might prove harder than normal this year for some as new evidence reveals Brits have been comfort eating in record numbers in the face of a worsening economic climate. Results from the … Continued

5 January 2012

Are these the most overrated people in history?

  Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill and Oscar Wilde have today been named amongst the most overvalued people in history. The poll, carried out by BBC History Magazine, asked 13 leading historians to name the personalities from the past who, in … Continued

5 January 2012

Sharks, combine-harvesters and a chainsaw – the crazy Christmas presents on children’s wish-lists

Dangerous gifts are popular requests for Santa – no surprise then that 52% children still believe in him at the age of eight. According to parenting website MadeForMums (www.madeformums.com) it seems some children are looking for more exotic gifts than … Continued

22 December 2011

Immediate Media release: Gardenersworld.com relaunches website on Immediate Media’s pioneering platform

Gardenersworld.com, the UK’s leading gardening website, has relaunched with a host of exciting new sections including a gardening forum, a fully searchable plant database, exclusive competitions and user profiles and messaging. The new-look site, published by Immediate Media Co under … Continued

20 December 2011

Solti’s The Ring takes top spot as greatest recording ever

Sir Georg Solti’s recording of Wagner’s Ring Cycle has been voted the greatest recording of all time in a close-run poll of the country’s leading classical music critics, carried out by BBC Music Magazine. Solti, whose centenary will be celebrated … Continued

19 December 2011