Redwood to produce Ceros magazine for Virgin Media

Press Gazette
27 August 2008
By Rachael Gallagher
Customer publisher Redwood is to produce a digital edition of Electric!, the bi-monthly entertainment magazine for Virgin Media customers.
The digital magazine is aiming to bridge the gap between the print magazine, which Redwood produces for Virgin Media customers every other month, and the website and the email newsletters Virgin [...]

Thomas Cook teams with Ceros

www.thomascook.com E-Commerce teams with Ceros for industry first
First fully interactive travel magazine launched today
London - July 22, 2008, Ceros, the leading online magazine publishing platform, today announced the launch of Thomas Cook Holiday Hotspots, the travel industry’s first fully interactive holiday magazine.
A link will be emailed to the full Thomas Cook database, inviting them to [...]

PPA goes all Ceros!

PPA secures industry first with digital annual report
Simon Nias, printweek.com, 14 July 2008
The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) has produced the industry’s first annual report to be published as a fully integrated digital edition.
Mirroring the current trend of providing content in both print and digital format, the PPA teamed up with Fresh Media Group (FMG) subsidiary [...]

Dennis launches third online-only title

by John Reynolds Media Week 24-Jun-08, 08:00
LONDON - Dennis Publishing is extending its portfolio of digital titles with the launch of motoring title iMotor. Launching on 17 July, iMotor will be a free fortnightly delivered to readers’ inboxes. It follows in the footsteps of Dennis’ other digital offerings, lads’ title Monkey and gadget [...]

Ceros chosen for English National Opera

New Media Age 13.05.08
The English National Opera (ENO) has rolled out its first digital arts guide allowing users to stream a selection of music tracks.
The guide, which includes similar content to the print version of the company’s Opera Guide, enables fans to stream up to 19 tracks of free music from seven operas including [...]

TalkSport to launch with Ceros

by Emma Barnett, Media Week
LONDON - Speech radio station TalkSport, is to launch a Ceros Online Magazine entitled TalkSport Magazine, in the summer.
TalkSport currently draws in 2.5 million listeners a week and the new title is aimed at extending the radio brand online. The target audience for the station is aged between 20 and [...]

Mequoda interviews Dominic Duffy on Ceros

Mequoda Daily: 22 February 2008
Digital editions are quickly creeping up on the magazine industry. If you are a magazine publisher and haven’t looked down this avenue, you might have another thing coming. You might think that users prefer paper, but you’d be surprised to know that users now prefer to have both, and you don’t [...]

Dennis’ Monkey sees ABCe figures up 10%

Author: Ed Dorrell New Media Age
Dennis Publishing’s e-zine Monkey has recorded an increase in its ABCe figures to a new high of 271,667, up 10.7% month on month. It is the third successive month Monkey’s ABCe has climbed. This news comes a week after the publishing house revealed plans to launch its second e-zine, Gizmo, [...]

BigKid moves into video

London - February 1, 2008, Fresh Media Group, the leading London-based media group today announced a major expansion into video production.
Ed Pettit and Paul Fifield, founding members of Guerilla Productions, join the Group to spearhead the expansion, marketed under FMG’s cross-platform digital agency, BigKid. Accompanying Ed and Paul are 15 key production and sales staff [...]

David Brin steps down from FMG board

Leading media group announces Board restructure as founding member steps down.
London - December 13, 2007, Fresh Media Group, the leading London-based media group, today announced David Brin has stepped down as Joint Managing Director.
Enacting the final phase of his exit strategy, David commented:
“It certainly doesn’t seem like 20 years ago that George Berg and myself [...]

Centaur sign group publishing deal with Ceros - “The advice provided by the Ceros team proved invaluable” - Robin Coates, Publishing Director, Centaur

Ceros, Europe’s leading online magazine publishing platform, today announced a group-wide deal with Centaur Media plc.
With titles such as New Media Age, Marketing Week, Design Week, The Lawyer, The Engineer and Mortgage Strategy already available in Ceros form, the deal opens the way for all Centaur’s 31 titles to adopt the acclaimed Ceros format.
Andy [...]

Cerosmedia.com celebrates it’s 200th title with the release of Ceros Version2.0

Ceros, Europe’s leading online magazine publishing platform, today announced the release of its latest software version and with it, the publication of the 200th title in Ceros format.
Ceros Version2.0 coincides with the launch of Factory Media’s brand new online title, Onboard North America. Drawing upon the advanced rich media capabilities of Ceros Version2.0, Onboard is [...]

New Crash title signs up to Fresh’s VIP and Ceros systems

PrintWeek Magazine
Fresh Media Group (FMG) has announced a new client for its Ceros online publishing platform, after signing a cross-media production deal with Crash Test Media.
Under the terms of the deal FMG will use its proprietary Virtual In-house Production (VIP) and Ceros software to produce both print and digital editions of Crash Test Media’s [...]

Deal with Amnet Systems in India inspires FMG towards US opening

PrintWeek Magazine
Fresh Media Group (FMG) has set its sights on the US, following the launch of an Indian office in a joint venture with Chennai-based Amnet Systems.
London-based FMG said the move in India was largely in response to growth in magazine publishing there, where Europe-based publishers such as Emap, PrintWeek publisher Haymarket and Hachette [...]

Fresh Vision wins Charles Tyrwhitt

Catalogue & E-Business Magazine
Catalogue design and production house Fresh Vision has won the repro contract for apparel cataloguer/retailer Charles Tyrwhitt. ECMOD’s Catalogue Design and Creative Services Supplier of the Year for 2006, Fresh Vision will manage the repro of the 116-page catalogue at its premises in London.

BBC History Mag goes digital

Media Week
BBC History Magazine has launched its first ever digital magazine - just in time to promote an army of Chinese warriors.
Produced in conjunction with the British Museum, the 14 page free magazine will give readers a taste of what’s in store at the museum’s new exhibit, The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army. The digital [...]

Colour Systems launched pioneering Drag and Drop plugin for Adobe InDesign

Colour Systems, the leading London-based prepress services provider, has today released it’s drag-and-drop InDesign plugin.
Having been undergoing beta testing at Emap and Hachette, the plugin makes it possible for publishing teams to browse a remote image library and simply drag-and-drop imagery directly into an InDesign page - without the need to open a browser.
Providing [...]

New Crash title signs up to Fresh’s VIP and Ceros systems

PrintWeek Magazine
Fresh Media Group (FMG) has announced a new client for its Ceros online publishing platform, after signing a cross-media production deal with Crash Test Media.
Under the terms of the deal FMG will use its proprietary Virtual In-house Production (VIP) and Ceros software to produce both print and digital editions of Crash Test Media’s [...]

Colour Systems lands five auto titles following Emap pre-press rejig

PrintWeek website
Colour Systems has triumphed in a recent pre-press overhaul at consumer publishing giant Emap, winning an additional five titles from the company.
The Islington-based repro house has added Max Power, Car, Classic Cars, Land Rover Owner and Practical Classics to its existing Emap roster of 12 titles, which includes Heat, Grazia, Closer and FHM.
However, Dominic [...]

The Bookseller makes online move

Print Media Management Magazine
When The Bookseller wanted to re-launch its online presence to take advantage of a new breed of web features it enlisted the help of design agency BigKid to pave the way for its content to cross media boundaries.
The Bookseller magazine has a rapt audience of 56,000 pass-on readers around the world, [...]

Hachette moves all titles to FMG

PrintWeek Magazine
Hachette Filipacchi UK has become the second major publisher to hand pre-press for all of its titles to Fresh Media Group subsidiary Colour Systems.
The Islington-based pre-media firm, which has worked with Hachette on Elle, Red, Sugar and Elle Decoration since 2004, has now added Psychologies, Real Homes and Inside Soap to its portfolio.
Hachette [...]

Fresh shows off BigKid agency

PrintWeek Magazine
Fresh Media Group’s latest offshoot, the integrated design agency BigKid, had its first public outing last week at the Internet World exhibition in Earls Court.
Simon Berg, joint managing director of the London-based firm, had said that BigKid evolved from a contract awarded to FMG by VNU, to design a new website and content [...]

NatMags selects Ceros for latest digital title

PrintWeek Magazine
The National Magazine Company (NatMags) launched its new digital title Jellyfish this week, using the same page-turning software that powers Dennis Publishing’s Monkey.
Jellyfish, which is targeted at 11- to 19-year-old girls, is the second e-zine to use Fresh Media Group’s (FMG) Ceros software. Group marketing director Dominic Duffy has revealed there will be [...]

Colour Systems releases VIP3

Colour Systems, the leading London-based prepress services provider, has today released version 3 of it’s Virtual In-house Production system.
Among many other features, VIP3.0 includes two major industry firsts: a real-time flatplan and a real-time, page-turning digital dummy.
A ground-breaking technical achievement, the combination of instantly updated flatplan and digital dummy provides by far the most practical, [...]

Flipping page is all the rage

Print Media Management Magazine
First there was Monkey, next NatMags is to follow Dennis Publishing’s lead with a digital only magazine title incorporating rich media content. Andy Knaggs and Laura Blows look at an emerging new business model for content publishers of all kinds.
Consumers can be fickle; their tastes and their expectations can change substantially and [...]

Online leads the way at magazine show

PrintWeek Magazine
Judging by the concentration of software developers and distributors at Publishing Expo, held last week at Olympia in west London, magazine production has moved into the digital age. Seminars held during the show focused on the benefits of convergence between print and online publishing, new e-paper by Fujitsu, and the successful launch of Dennis [...]

Interest in FMG’s Ceros software soars as web-only mags thrive

PrintWeek Magazine
Pre-media house Fresh Media Group (FMG) is set to cash in on the success of its Ceros software, which drives online-only weekly lads’ mag Monkey.
Interest in the Ceros system has flared following the publication last week of Monkey’s first ABC Electronic circulation figures, in which it achieved double its original target of 100,000 users.
Publication [...]

The Bookseller relaunches website

Bookseller Magazine
The Bookseller has redesigned and relaunched thebookseller.com. The rebuild sees the website focus on core areas of must-have information for the book business-news, books, charts and jobs. The new site will also shortly launch a new programme of industry blogs and digital initiatives, under site editor Philip Jones.
The site, built by the agency Fresh [...]

Fresh Media Group launches design agency

New Media Age Magazine
Online and offline design and production company Fresh Media Group launched integrated agency BigKid this week. It will cover offline media but will focus primarily on online. It has already signed up its first client, online technology news publisher VNUnet, redesigning and relaunching its website. The agency has a 12-person software development [...]

Fresh Media rejig puts Berg and Brin on top

PrintWeek Magazine
Fresh Media Group (FMG), the London-based pre-media firm, has named Simon Berg and David Brin as joint managing directors as part of a management restructure.
Also included in the reshuffle are promotions for Dean Agamabar, Brett Grange and Andy Dean, who join the board as group sales director, group operations director and group production director [...]

Closed-loop paperless proofing with Reader’s Digest

The UK’s largest independent prepress services provider configures closed-loop colour-profiled remote proofing system for 18 international editions of the Reader’s Digest magazine.
Colour Systems, the leading London-based prepress services provider, today announced the deployment of an entirely paperless, content and colour proofing system for Reader’s Digest magazine.
Using colour profiles constructed in consultation with Reader’s Digest and [...]

Monkey more than apes its print predecessors

Print Media Management Magazine
Dennis Publishing’s new digital only magazine is a creature of its times, and one that required a very specific eco-system to prosper. Development of Applecart Solutions’ Ceros e-zine system was accelerated to make sure it did.
James Carter, formerly publisher of FHM, and now the man at Dennis Publishing behind Monkey, the first [...]

Colour Systems wins Magazine Repro Company of the Year

The Periodical Publishers Association has announced Colour Systems as the Magazine Repro Company of The Year for the second year running.
The prestigious award was made for Colour Systems ‘fantastic ability to adapt to the demands imposed by publishers,’ and for providing ‘traditional service as well as innovative solutions.’
‘Clearly Colour Systems is doing great things,’ said [...]

Fresh Vision wins BrightMinds design brief

Catalogue & E-Business Magazine
Fresh Vision, winner of the ECMOD Supplier Award for Catalogue Design & Creative Services, has added BrightMinds to its portfolio of clients. Fresh Vision will manage the design and repro of children’s educational toys catalogue. Fresh Vision’s Deborah Hall, said, “BrightMinds sought a fresh interpretation of their brand and a new design [...]

Fresh Vision wins ECMOD Supplier of the Year

Fresh Vision is pleased to announce the winning of Catalogue Creative and Design Services Supplier of the Year at this years ECMOD show.
‘Knowing that we are held in such privileged and high regard is very special and means we’re achieving our aim of being instrumental in our clients’ success,’ said Deborah Hall, Fresh-Vision Sales Director.
‘I’d [...]

More power for VIP Publishers

Colour Systems, the leading London-based prepress services provider, has installed the Graphic Arts industry’s most powerful server to date.
Catering for the demand in its innovative Virtual In-house Production system (VIP), the new server represents the next vital stage in the company’s strategy to constantly develop and enhance VIP to enable more publishers to move their [...]

ABC agrees integrated reporting for B2B titles

The Council for the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) has agreed that print and digital edition circulation can be combined on B2B audit certificates, in response to ongoing industry demand for integrated reporting of digital editions in the B2B publishing sector.
In June 2004, the rules for the auditing and reporting of digital editions on ABC [...]

Fresh Media Group is in the movies!

Having sponsored and co-produced the movie Played, starring Val Kilmer, Gabriel Byne, Vinnie Jones and many others, the Fresh Media Group is to host an exclusive preview at the Soho Hotel on August 15th.
FMG’s involvement in the Movie is extensive. Shot in both Los Angeles and London, with some scenes shot in FMG’s headquarters building [...]

Fresh premieres e-zine breakthrough Ceros

PrintWeek Magazine
Fresh media group (FMG) is launching Ceros, an online magazine production, distribution and auditing tool that provides publishers with the same business model they expect from printed titles. Ceros builds on the work the groups e-publishing division applecart has done with e-zines and e-catalogues. “We’ve been evangelising the e-edition for three years but its [...]

Myakka appoints Fresh Vision for catalogue production

Catalogue & E-Business Magazine
Fresh Vision is pleased to announce the wining of a contract for the catalogue production for Myakka, the fair trade importer and retailer of Indian furniture, soft furnishings and unique home accessories.
Fresh Vision will manage the design and repro of the 48 page mail order catalogue.
Deborah Hall, Sales Director of Fresh Vision [...]

Fresh Vision appoints new Art Director

Catalogue & E-Business Magazine
Fresh Vision, the UK’s leading mail order design and production company, has appointed Richard Gent as Art Director.
Previously Senior Art Director at Avon Cosmetics, Richard brings with him a wealth of design experience at the highest level.
Overseeing all catalogue and mail order design and photography at Fresh Vision, Richard will be instrumental [...]

Colour Systems wins Instyle

Colour Systems, the leading London-based prepress services provider, has won the contract to provide its wide range of services for IPC Media’s InStyle magazine. The win represents Colour Systems latest in a string of IPC contracts including those for Living Etc, Marie Claire, Homes and Gardens and Wallpaper and brings the total number of IPC [...]

Exclusive Indesign Plugin for VIP

Fresh Media Group paves the way for even greater ‘Virtual In-house Production’
Leading Premedia products and services company launches unique InDesign plugin for exclusive use by clients of ‘Virtual In-house Production’.
Fresh Media Group, the leading London based premedia products and services provider, has launched a unique software tool for exclusive use by clients of ‘Virtual In-house [...]

Dominic Duffy to join Fresh Media Group Board of Directors

Fresh Media Group, the leading London-based premedia products and services provider, has appointed Dominic Duffy to the Group’s Board of Directors in the position of Group Marketing Director.
Dominic joined FMG’s dedicated prepress division, Colour Systems as Technical Director in 2000 and has since been instrumental in the creation and development of Applecart, FMG’s specialist e-publishing [...]

Applecart announce partnership with Adestra

Specialist online publishing and marketing firms combine services to provide integrated e-media packages Applecart Solutions, the specialist e-publishing firm announced today its partnership with Adestra, the UK-based email, SMS and FAX marketing agency. The number of e-editions of magazines, brochures, catalogues and newspapers is increasing rapidly. Consequently, Publishers need flexible, effective, brand-specific ways of marketing [...]

Colour Systems wins sole supplier deal

Haymarket Group will move to a sole pre-press supplier arrangement from January.
Colour Systems, already Haymarket’s largest pre-press supplier, will assume responsibility for all 67 of the publisher’s UK business-to-business and consumer titles. The move marks the culmination of a five-year supplier consolidation process.
It will result in the B2B titles currently produced by Icon Reproduction, including [...]

IPC awards Colour Systems key title

PrintWeek Magazine
Colour Systems has won a new pre-press contract from IPC, picking up interiors and lifestyle bible Wallpaper* as of its October issue.
The title is an additional win from IPC for the Islington-based pre-press firm. Earlier this year it picked up half of IPC SouthBank’s titles including flagships Marie Claire, Homes & Gardens and Livingetc, [...]

Nectar Choose Fresh Vision For Catalogue Launch

Fresh Vision, a specialist catalogue and mail-order design and reprographics company, and Nectar, the loyalty card and rewards specialist, today announced their partnership to produce Nectar’s first rewards catalogue.
Launched in response to customer feedback, the catalogue will provide users of Nectar’s extensive rewards programme with the ability to browse products and services available through the [...]

VIP first with JDF integration

St Ives - Colour Systems link systems via JDF
Colour Systems and St Ives unveiled what they believe is the first “inter-enterprise” JDF integration last week using VIP.
Speaking at the PPA’s Magazines 2005 conference in a session entitled JDF: myth or reality? The pre-media company and the print group revealed the results of the work they [...]

TNT eMag Launches Using ActiveMagazine Technology

Online Magazine Keeps Travellers Connected To London
Applecart Solutions announced that it has worked with TNT Magazine, the free weekly Antipodean and South African magazine, to create TNT eMag. The online digital magazine will go live today using Applecart’s ActiveMagazine.
TNT eMag (http://www.tntmagazine.com/uk) contains free travel, lifestyle and what’s on information for travellers living and working in [...]