Exhibitor News adn developemnts NovEMBER /Decem BER 2013 red.web states its satisfaction with the result of the World Publishing Expo: “We have had a very successful exhibition, with many interesting discussions held both with German and international customers and interested parties,“ said Siegmund Radtke, Director of Publishing at publisher Mittelrhein-Verlag and head of the red.web business unit. A great deal of attention was attracted also by the official announcement during the exhibition of a cooperation agreement with Medien-Service Untermain (MSU) in Aschaffenburg, which also had a stand at Expo. Starting immediately, the sports league tables programme and the sports portal of MSU are integrated into the red.web product portfolio and marketed under the name “Sportal.” 17018; 17057 18 www.worldnewspublishingfocus.org Australian daily goes with CCI NewsGate The West Australian will implement CCI NewsGate throughout its editorial department enabling the Perthbased publisher to strengthen its print publishing and further establish its digital publishing. NewsGate will also be rolled out to the company’s 23 regional newspapers. http://bit.ly/18afdjD CNPA teams up with Scoopshot to offer user-generated images The California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA) and Scoopshot announced they have entered into a strategic partnership to promote Scoopshot’s system for online and print publication of photos and videos captured by the public. Under the agreement, CNPA will help introduce its 800-plus newspaper members to Scoopshot‘s web-based and mobile-user system for assigning, authenticating and publishing user-generated images. 17063 Belgium’s Het Nieuwsblad launches new tablet newspaper using Twipe Het Nieuwsblad launched a new tablet newspaper for iPad and Android platforms. The tablet newspaper, powered by Twipe, takes the paradigm of digital newspaper publishing for popular and sports newspapers a step further by presenting the content in easy-to-read templates that exploit much better the possibilities of tablets. 16892 News Corp Australia goes ‘live’ with Lineup’s AdPoint Lineup Systems announced at the Expo that it has entered the Australian market with one of the country’s leading media companies, News Corp Australia. AdPoint unifies News Corp Australia’s ad sales management system for its digital sites. More than 8 million Australians visit News Corp Australia brands across tablet, mobile and web each month. The AdPoint deployment includes multiple rate card management, network targeting, buy-out/inventory management and increased transparency, providing improved organisational effectiveness and customer interaction with digital sales teams. 17014; 17031 Germany’s Passauer Neue Presse chooses alfa AdSuite Market The NPV group is publisher of the Passauer Neue Presse as well as 15 additional local editions. Besides the daily newspapers, NPV also publishes two freesheets, Am Sonntag and Pressekurier. For its future activities in the advertising market, the company has selected the alfa AdSuite Market ad management solution. In addition to the classical components of an advertising solution, the alfa ad management system also offers other functionalities that otherwise typically would have to be realised via external interfaces to other systems, thus costing both time and resources. 17061, German German citizen reporters active in East Frisia, Brunswick with Gogol The ZGO Zeitungsgruppe Ostfriesland in Leer, Germany, publisher of Ostfriesen-Zeitung, General-Anzeiger and Ostfriesische Nachrichten, is embarking on a new future with three citizen-reporter portals. In future, readers can write and publish articles online for the new platforms of their local newspaper. The portals were realised using the cloud solution from Gogol Publishing of Augsburg, Germany. 16898, German WoodWing’s new systems integrator W After more than 10 years of distributing Wood- Wing Software in Germany and Austria, Impressed began acting as a systems integrator on 1 October for WoodWing’s Multi-Channel Publishing System Enterprise and the WoodWing Elvis DAM Digital Asset Management solution. 16911 W WoodWing and Getty Images have developed an integration of Getty Images’ digital content library and WoodWing´s editorial management application Content Station as part of WoodWing´s multi-channel publishing system Enterprise. With this integration, the company says users of WoodWing Enterprise now have direct access to select, download and procure images from Getty Images’ content library. 17046 CRM: Sensix and MID to cooperate in the future Like many areas in media today, customer relations management is developing at a fast pace. It is important to take due account of the needs of different branches of industry, technological development, and many other aspects in order to stay on top. For this reason, Sensix, a European CRM Full Service Provider, decided to enter into a strategic partnership with MID, a process specialist. 16890, German 5 fifteen cooperates with Bluefin Technology Partners 5 fifteen, a provider of consulting services and cloudbased software solutions designed for newspaper and magazine publishers, has appointed Bluefin Technology Partners, a provider of online classifieds and self-service advertising solutions, as its authorised distributor to market its industry-leading ad Depot advertising suite of products to the North American media industry. 16949 DCOS partners with GraphicM in Sweden, Denmark DCOS expands its presence in Sweden and Denmark by the recent sales agreement with GraphicM, based in Helsingborg, Sweden. DCOS has long had an ambition to increase its presence with new and existing customers in Scandinavia and as a result, been looking for suitable collaboration partners. 16902 Toray chooses Akon as distribution partner in Poland Toray has chosen Akon as its distribution partner in the Polish market. The company says this new partnership will ensure that Toray waterless customers have access to the best technical service, advice and support. Founded in 1997, Akon is located in Warsaw with branch offices in Wroclaw and Gdynia. Its distribution portfolio also includes Agfa, Alwan, BasysPrint, Enfocus, Mohr and Xitron. 17058 Glunz & Jensen in partnership with GKS Glunz & Jensen has acquired Grafisk Kvik Service ApS (GKS) as of 1 September. GKS has over the years provided service and support to Agfa, Fujifilm, Heidelberg and Kodak, and their end users in the Nordic countries. Glunz & Jensen would like to expand this overall lifetime support by offering it to their OEMs outside the Nordic region. 16903 New manroland web systems sales and service partner named in Indonesia PT Mandiri Anugerah Nusantara is the new sales and service partner of manroland web systems in Indonesia as of 1 September. Based in Surabaya and represented by General Manager Wenly Setiawan and technical manager Bambang Rudiyanto, the company looks after the many manroland customers in Indonesia. 16926 Short news red.web draws a positive Expo result – cooperation with MSU To read the full article, simply enter the article ID in the search field on www.wan-ifra.org. Latest news is listed under wan-ifra.org/industryupdates
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