Distribution of Roularta Media Group’s media brands firmly entrenched thanks to intensive subscription policy for both print and digital

Roularta Media Group’s long-standing subscription policy, combined with intense efforts to attract subscribers through digital channels, has created exciting perspectives for the paid distribution of its media brands. Plus Magazine, the monthly magazine for over-50s, has experienced a substantial increase of 6.14% in a declining magazine market (-6.16%). The number of digital subscriptions to the news magazines is evolving in a highly positive manner. Libelle is still in the top 3 biggest weekly magazines in Flanders. The Free Press titles guarantee massive distribution all over the region.

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With all its press titles, Roularta Media Group reaches half of all Belgians. Easy and efficient: RMG is the only Belgian publisher with a national offer for advertisers. Thanks to the broad regional reach of our newspapers combined with the specific target groups of our magazines, you will be able to recommend your products and services to millions of Belgians.

Knack Weekend and Le Vif Weekend get a new look from 13 February onwards: more international, more luxurious, more innovative.

From 17 April 2019, Feeling/GAEL and Feeling/GAEL GOLD will appear on a new format! 
Feeling Kust 2019, which appears on 19 June 2019, will also be published on this new format. 
All of the above magazines will now have the same format as Weekend Knack/Le Vif Black. The major difference with the current format is that the new format is 1 cm smaller in height.

Roularta Media Group appoints Stefan Seghers as Chief Digital Officer (CDO). He will lead the Roularta Digital hub that Roularta Media Group established 3 September 2018. Roularta Digital hub will accelerate digitisation at RMG. With its extensive digital expertise, the division will also support the various business units in their digital transformation.

Roularta Digital hub consists of three units:

• Data & New Business
• Web/app-ontwikkeling & digital marketing
• E-commerce. 

In line with this elan, RMG is also establishing an Innovation Lab, will be led full-time by Erwin Danis.

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The Online Professional Publishers’ Association Belgium (OPPAb) has introduced the first premium Private Marketplace for the entire mobile market for Belgian premium content sites.

“The whole premise of programmatic advertising is that it’s based on what you already know about what that consumer’s been searching for.
The magic of magazines, and advertising in them is that they show you what you didn’t know you wanted before. That’s where the value lies for advertisers.”

“Magazine companies should have more confidence in the quality of their audience who have paid to pick up that issue, and need to communicate the value of that audience to advertisers.”

During the Advertising Research Foundation Audience Measurement 2016 conference, Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS) presented a study on return on advertising spend (ROAS) that showed magazines deliver the highest return, with an average return of $3.94 for every dollar spent on advertising. According to the study “Yes, Advertising Works. Now, What’s My ROAS Across Media Platforms?” the next closest media platform is display advertising with a ROAS of $2.63.

Read the article by Michael Brunt.