Publishers can survive in a digital world if we can rise to meet our greatest challenge: unravelling the complex technological landscape, which offers increasing numbers of platforms for our content. Multi-channel publishing has become more cost effective, increasing the commercial benefits year-on-year and sometimes month-on-month. The pressure to embrace it all is never more evident [...]

Please join me in welcoming our new editor for Healthy For Men, Wesley Doyle to River. Wesley is an experienced fitness journalist and joins us most recently from freelance writing for titles including The Red Bulletin, Runner’s World, Men’s Health and Cyclist. Prior to this Wesley was Fitness Editor of Men’s Health for 5 years. [...]

The greatest civilisations eventually fall. So goes the accepted wisdom. Actually whose accepted wisdom it was I can’t recall but it does sound very wise indeed. Although perhaps not as wise as Darwin’s proclamation that “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to [...]

  The River Group is delighted to announce that Dream Magazine for Honda UK has been shortlisted for the PPA Awards 2013. The PPA Awards are the most coveted in the magazine industry, showcasing excellence, rewarding innovation, and providing the benchmark by which UK publishing judges itself.  Categories cover a wide range of disciplines across [...]

This article by River Group’s newly appointed Head of Digital and Content, Susi O’Neill, was originally featured in .NET magazine in April. What makes good content? Content marketing isn’t new – content has always driven communications online.  Good content is informative or entertaining, and always engaging.  Make your content purposeful: what problem will you solve [...]

Susi O’ Neill joins The River Group’s senior management team today as Head of Digital. An experienced media professional, Susi was previously Head of Digital at Scope, the UK disability charity and she has had a long and successful career encompassing both consultancy and client roles in sectors such as media, healthcare, cultural and non-profit [...]

We do, it is fair to say, have a bit of an obsession with growth. It is arguably one of the key tenets of capitalist society that ‘more is good’. Whether that be GDP and company profits at the business end of the spectrum, personal wealth somewhere in the middle, or a collection of books [...]

River is proud to announce the launch of a new multi-channel magazine for Harvey Nichols – Dubai. Stylish, glossy and featuring the hottest fashion, beauty and lifestyle trends, the magazine showcases the most gorgeous pieces from exclusive international brands and collections. Created for in-store, digital download and app, the stylish spring/summer issue includes a round-up [...]

I love writing about the future. It’s the one way I get to say whatever I like and you are only allowed to disagree with me in the mildest fashion. This is because you are not Doctor Who. So I predict that in 10 years we will be able to invite holograms of our dead [...]

Can you imagine going to a restaurant and ordering some food? No, actually ordering, just ‘food’. Then maybe ordering some ‘drink’. Perhaps when you go shopping you like to buy some general ‘clothes’?  Your next major purchase might be a ‘car’ or perhaps your Saturday afternoons are spent shouting with thousands of other people at [...]

I have worked in marketing, media, advertising (whatever you care to call it) for nearly twenty years. When I started ITV took a 65% share of commercial viewing and Chris Tarrant’s breakfast show on Capital FM reached three million people. Loaded was ‘Magazine of the Year’, if I wanted to find a restaurant I would [...]

Great feature in the latest issue of FIPP Magazine World on the health and wellbeing sector.  The article highlights the importance of unique, targeted and authoritative health and wellbeing content and features our CEO, Nicola Murphy, and reviews of Weight Watchers, Healthy and Healthy for Men magazines and content strategies. You can read the full [...]

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Ellie Hughes as the new editor of Healthy, the UK’s top-selling health and wellbeing magazine. Ellie brings a wealth of senior experience on national consumer health magazines having worked as acting deputy editor of Zest and editor of Top Santé. Commenting on her appointment, she says, ‘I [...]

Big thanks to Peter Aldis, CEO of NBTY, for featuring Healthy and Healthy for Men in his latest blog post: ‘Our magazine portfolio is also providing some terrific sales results with both Healthy and Healthy for Men literally flying off the shelves! Firstly well done to all H&B and NWAY stores who have made Healthy [...]

To celebrate and promote the launch of a new magazine we have produced for Harvey Nichols Dubai, our clients at Al Tayer have organised some fantastic advertising and marketing including this bus stop take-over! Watch this space for more exciting news from Harvey Nichols Dubai, including the launch of a digital version of the magazine very [...]

The River Group are delighted to announce that the Dream Portfolio for Honda UK and Weight Watchers (UK) Magazine and have both been shortlisted for this years coveted British Media Awards. The British Media Awards highlights the best in innovation and creativity across the entire media industry.  The awards are open to: newspapers, magazines, event [...]

We are delighted to announce the launch of a brand new bimonthly magazine PRO Hair & Beauty produced on behalf of leading hair and beauty retailer Sally Salon Services. The magazine will be available exclusively to professional customers who hold a trade card, and will be sold for £1.95 / €2.75 in over 250 Sally [...]

Valentine’s Day is a bit like Marmite – you either love it or loathe it. If you’re the romantic type (or newly in love), you will have sent a card (or cards if you’ve got a few secret lovers!), bought chocolates, roses or jewellery and are about to spend the evening wining and dining with [...]

Big thanks to JLS for the lovely picture they recently posted on Twitter! We love the front cover of Scents magazine too!

  The March issue of Weight Watchers magazine hits the shops today and it’s ground-breaking for many different reasons.
Featuring Masterchef’s Gregg Wallace who’s lost 20lbs with Weight Watchers, it’s the first time in over a decade that the magazine has had a man on the cover. And for the first time ever the magazine has a [...]

The latest launch at River, bisforbeautiful.co.uk is making headlines!  Big thanks to In Publishing for the coverage today. You can read the full article here. 

As some of us may know, the internet is a very fast paced and evolving world but have you ever wondered what happens in one minute across the world wide web? Well thanks to the IntelFreePress team in one minute… 204 million emails are sent 20 million photos are viewed on Flickr 6 million views of [...]

  We are delighted to announce the publication of the 100th edition of the renowned wellbeing magazine Healthy published on behalf of Holland & Barrett.
The 100th issue is supported by an email, PR and social media campaign and is published as a collector’s edition. Benefits for customers include a competition for 100 readers to win [...]

We are proud to announce the launch of a new website bisforbeautiful.co.uk www.bisforbeautiful.co.uk created by the digital team for new beauty brand, B. The brand launches online and exclusively in over 400 Superdrug stores from 23rd January, with a complete collection of skincare and makeup. The creation of B. follows Superdrug’s beauty team spotting a [...]

Happy New Year everyone! We were delighted this morning to receive this promotional email from The Co-operative featuring the new Jan/Feb 2013 issue of The Co-operative Food, published by River, which is in stores and available to download now. The email reaches nearly 100,000 Co-operative customers and is sent out in two formats, one featuring a full [...]