Posted by Christi Ginger on 24 September 2007 (8020 Publishing)
Last night at the Folio Magazine Awards Show, 8020 Publishing picked up two awards! The Folio Awards honor the best in editorial content and magazine design--sort of a Grammys for magazines.
JPG Magazine was selected as the Gold Winner for best magazine in the Consumer: Enthusiast Art Hobbies Crafts Etc. category. Jpgmag.com was honored as the Bronze Award Winner in the Best Online Community category.
This year a panel of 100 judges considered 3,000 entries from around the globe. There were some great magazines up for awards so we are really thrilled and honored to be selected.
Thanks to the great JPG community out there that makes this magazine so fantastic!
Posted by Christi Ginger on 24 September 2007 (8020 Publishing)
8020 Publishing was at TechCrunch40 last week to announce the launch of Everywhere Magazine, a community-powered travel magazine that will showcase the experiences and stories of travelers from around the globe. TechCrunch40 is a conference where selected startups announce, present, and demo their new products. We were thrilled to be one of 40 companies (out of over 700) invited to participate this year.
We presented Everywhere Magazine during the Community and Collaboration Panel and gave a sneak-peak of the upcoming website. Like JPG Magazine, Everywhere is driven by the unique and authentic voice of the online community. We got a ton of great questions about the future of print magazines and were able to point to the JPG community as an example of how a community-powered approach to content can make a great magazine.
Look out for more news on Everywhere Magazine!
Posted by Paul Cloutier on 23 June 2007 (8020 Publishing)
It's 8020 Publishing's 1 year birthday! When we started in June of 2006, we knew we had a lot ahead of us, but lot of stuff has happened in just one year:
We have seen the successful launch of JPG, which in just 7 months has reached a paid circulation of 15,000, 75,000 registered members, an average newsstand sell-through of 70% (which is twice the industry average) and 5 million page-views a month. But we are most proud of the incredible work that has come from the community: work we never expected, truly amazing work that is redefining what photography means, and may otherwise never have been published.
We have won the Circulation Innovation of the Year award and a gold award for audience development. This was a great coup for us, since it is recognition from within the industry that we really are revolutionizing publishing.
We are about to launch our second magazine, Everywhere, a travel title aimed at approachable, authentic experiences. We think this is going to be huge, building on the success of JPG and breaking down the barriers to entry in another publishing market.
We've grown: there are now 9 of us, enough for a baseball team and just the right size to make pint nights memorable.
And we have finally, officially launched the 8020 Publishing site. For the last year we have had our heads down working on JPG and Everywhere, but the time came for us to work on a more permanent home. Now we can show off the team, the magazines and talk about what we're up to and where we think the publishing industry is going.
So have a look around, meet the team, and check back soon to see where we go next.
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