Spafax's Sparksheet to launch new online magazine for digital marketer Dx3 Canada

A new online magazine called the Dx3 Digest is being launched at the end of October by Sparksheet on behalf of Dx3 Canada, a digital marketing trade show. Sparksheet is an online magazine and content provider that is part of Spafax, (the company that contract publishes enRoute magazine on behalf of Air Canada.) (No word on the new magazine's frequency or the expected size of its audience.)The new

The rich are not like you and me; they have bigger boats & a "superyacht" magazine

Owners and prospective owners of "superyachts" (no small yachts need apply) will be interested, we're sure, in the launching of a new publication called 360º Magazine.It's about global business, wealth management trends and luxury lifestyle and it's aimed at 10,000 "ultra high net worth individuals collectively worth more than £300bn".Yachting Partners International (YPI), one of the world’s

Less than a buck a copy the pre-publication offer for Sportsnet magazine subscribers

With the September 29 launch date looming, Rogers Publishing is offering its new Sportsnet magazine for about 97 cents a copy (for 30 issues) to charter subscribers and, with that, comes a digital edition. (The price doesn't include taxes.)  The deal is sweetened by a soft offer of the first four issues free, with no obligation. 
Subscribers to Rogers cable and/or phone services can get the

New Chinese language lifestyle and real estate magazine launched in B.C.

A new Chinese language lifestyle and real estate magazine called New Home Living has been launched by Black Press in the lower mainland of B.C. According to a story in Marketing, the title will be published 11 times a year and will have a controlled circulation of 20,000, as well as having a companion website. The first issue, dated September, has 76 pages. The publisher is Lisa Farquharson. The

Corporate Knights magazine to launch U.S. edition with reception at Canadian embassy

Corporate Knights, the Canadian magazine that promotes good corporate citizenship, is exporting it to the U.S. with the launch of its first issue (Summer 2011) aimed at the U.S. market; 100,000 copies carried as an insert in tomorrow's (July 14) Washington Post.The magazine, which has latterly proclaimed that it stands for "clean capitalism", is holding a launch reception in the Canadian embassy

Annual subs to new Sportsnet magazine from Rogers may sell for $1.50 an issue

We are learning a bit more about Rogers Publishing's new Sportsnet magazine, to be launched in the fall. For one thing, the price point. 
An online survey being conducted now suggests that a single copy price may be $4.95, a one-year, 26-issue subscription could be $39 (about $1.50 per issue) and a monthly subscription available to Rogers Advantage customers could be discounted 10% to $3 a month

Newspaper-carried magazines lead top 30 notable U.S. launches list

Samir "Mr. Magazine" Husni has released his 30 most notable (U.S.) magazine launches list for 2010 and co-leaders are magazines that are distinguished by being distributed through newspapers -- Athlon Sports and Dash, a food magazine. Husni and his team selected Athlon Sports, a monthly magazine, launched in October 2010, aimed at men and with a circulation of 7 million, principally because it

Rogers Media to launch 100,000 circ biweekly Sportsnet magazine in the fall

Rogers Media will be launching a national, b-weekly sports magazine called Sportsnet, keying off its prominent radio and televison broadcasting brand.The bi-weekly is expected to start publishing in the fall."Sportsnet magazine will be Canada's leading source for in-depth perspective and inside reports on hockey, baseball, football, soccer and MMA to name just a few," said Ken Whyte, Executive

CityBites partners with tourism alliance to create Ontario Culinary Adventure Guide

CityBites Media, publishers of the bi-monthly Toronto food magazine CityBites, has partnered with the Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance (OCTA) to create a new publication called Ontario Culinary Adventure Guide. It's a 36-page handbook dedicated to regional farmer's markets, agricultural celebrations, taste trails, craft breweries and winery tours, according to a story in Marketing magazine.

Spacing magazine to launch first national print edition

One of four different covers
Multiple magazine covers have been reported on  here several times recently (the Maclean's "tumble" cover; Toronto Life's three random newsstand covers). Now the feisty urban affairs magazine Spacing has taken the concept one better with four different covers used to present its first national print edition (that's the Montreal and eastern Canada edition shown above

Rogers Media launches franchised iVillage.ca site for women

Rogers Media , partnering with the U.S. site for women, is launching iVillage.ca today. The site will feature original editorial content, alongside top features from the US partner  iVillage.com and stories from Rogers Media brands such as Chatelaine, CityLine and sweetspot.ca.
To mark the launch the site is asking Canadian women to share their passions for the best things in life -- family,

Ryerson Review of Journalism summer issue launch party

I have been heard, more than once, to say that if the Ryerson Review of Journalism didn't exist, we'd need to invent it. This student-produced, twice-a-year publication often publishes stories about journalism in this country, including magazines, in ways that can be found nowhere else. The summer 2011 issue of the RRJ is being launched in the time-honoured fashion by a party in Toronto on

New Brunswick magazine came to publisher in a dream

Photo: Kate Braydon, Telegraph-Journal
A woman in New Brunswick decided to launch a magazine called It's Your Life because the idea came to her in a dream. According to a story in the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, Terri-Ann Cormier had been selling other people's magazines from elsewhere in Canada in her eco-store in Rothesay, but found they didn't meet her customers' needs."They really didn't

First quarter U.S. magazine launches outnumber closures 2-to-1

Two magazines were launched  in the U.S. for every title that closed during the first quarter of this year, according to magazine database MediaFinder.com. As reported by Folio:During 2011’s first quarter, 54 new magazine titles were launched, more than double the number (25) of publications that debuted in first quarter 2010.The number of magazines that folded increased slightly from 2010’s

Toronto Standard launches tonight

Tonight is the launch of the Toronto Standard, a "daily digital briefing", based in Toronto but with a global outlook. Its flag is a revival of a shortlived publication that came out from1848 to 1850. The editorial director of the venture (what do we call it? paper? magazine? website? blog?) is Christopher Frey who told Masthead:“The Standard will primarily be a website0. “It will also be

Rogers launches magazine for the wealthy called Canadian Capital

Rogers Publishing has launched a new magazine aimed at Canadian entrepreneurs. It's called Canadian Capital and has a companion website called Capitalmagazine.ca. The new quarterly is designed to meet the special needs of business owners in a complex world of building and managing wealth, says a release. The first issue's cover story features clothier Harry Rosen talking about handing over the

Disney to launch a line of kids' subscriptions magazines in U.S.

Disney Publishing is taking another crack at building a kids' subscription magazine publishing business in the U.S.
According to a story on the New York Times media blog, "Kids want them and moms will pay for them." Disney is set to announce plans for a cluster of magazines that will replicate the success they have had producing similar titles in Europe. Advertising in the new subscription

Sweetspot founder to launch online retail site

The woman who started Sweetspot.ca is about to launch a new venture, an online retailer and shopping destination called Dealuxe. According to a story in Marketing magazine, Joanne Track has hired the Toronto media agency Blammo to create a campaign that will start April 4, preceeding Dealuxe's official lauch May 2.A self-described “start-up junkie” who launched Sweetspot.ca in 2004 (the site was

Have it online, three (or is it four?) ways, with new lit journal Dragnet

There's a new online literary journal recently launched called Dragnet magazine. Actually, it's sort of a cross between a journal and an e-book. Issue one is available online as a web page, an e-book and a flipbook. There's also a mobile version. It calls itself "young, beautiful and flexible."The editors are Andrew Battershill, who lives in Victoria and Jeremy Hanson-Finger, who lives in Toronto

New online design, travel and food magazine Dabble launching

On Monday, a new online magazine called Dabble,focussing on interior design, travel and food, is to launch. Editor-in-chief is Kimberley Seldon who is also the design editor for Chatelaine magazine. According to a story in the Calgary Herald, the nature of online publishing means the magazine has plenty of room to cover everything lavishly. Dabble can run 10 full-sized home, interior, food or