Abe Peck is one of the best-known and most knowledgeable veterans of B2B media, with a long career in journalism that includes stops at The Chicago Sun-Times, Rolling Stone, Outside, Travel Weekly, and most recently, Inside Unmanned Systems. Interestingly, though,...
No Guts, No Glory! If ever there were a time this old saying would resonate, it would be now. Marketers: If you/we don’t reach your prospective buyers the rest of this quite chaotic year, then it’s quite likely that you will be forgotten when buying time comes....
The media industry has always seen the giant platforms—Google and Meta especially, but also Apple and Amazon—as frenemies. On the one hand, they’re a hugely important source of referral traffic, and therefore, essential to advertising. Most marketers evaluate media...
If you've been reading this newsletter for a while, you know one of our favorite features is an extended introduction to one of our team members from time to time. In "Getting To Know A Fox," we learn a bit more about them, and we share their interests and business...
Announcement from EVP and COO Steve Schwanz: I am pleased to announce that Jennifer da Silva has rejoined Fox Associates in the newly created position of Leader: Strategic Sales Development. Among many responsibilities, Jennifer will be instrumental in identifying and...
With the media industry rapidly changing, and disruption a given, it’s valuable and illuminating to take a step back and have a conversation with someone who knows all about one of the oldest components of the publishing industry: Paper. It’s doubly instructive when...
One of the highest-profile and most respected B2B media companies in the country is Questex, the New-York-based publisher owned by the private-equity firm MidOcean Partners. The company operates in five business verticals, including wellness, hospitality, life science...
As unbelievable as it seems, we're already approaching mid-year, and now we're in the swing of the spring conference and trade show season. So your Fox Associates team is out on the road, covering events, building business, meeting clients and developing new...
By Tony Silber The news-media industry has been in turmoil for years—that’s indisputable. After nearly two decades of media brands shutting down, layoffs of thousands of news professionals, the creation of “news deserts” across wide swaths of America, the industry is...
By Tony Silber It’s the first month of the second quarter of 2024, and it’s a good time to talk about media trends, specifically B2B and association media, and drilling down even a bit more, what’s going on in advertising. Most media companies have closed the books on...