Time Out has launched a global advertising team, fronted by former BBC World Service sales director Nick Carugati, to work across its network of 35 titles, reports Marketing-interactive.com.
Time Out licence holders across the world will share the costs of the new unit. According to M-I.com, new editions in China and a digital edition in Japan could be in the pipeline.
Tony Elliott, the proprietor of listings magazine Time Out, is considering selling control of the title to help fund online expansion.
“We want to develop in Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds and Manchester; in Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco. And we’d certainly not look to launch magazines in places like Paris or Los Angeles without a developed website in place first,” he told the Times.
Press Gazette last night presented its 2008 Magazine Design and Journalism Awards. Here’s a run-down of the winners from last night’s ceremony:
Young Designer of the Year: Dominic Bell, Wallpaper
Best Designed Magazine of the Year – Consumer (Over 40k): Meirion Pritchard, Wallpaper
Best Designed Magazine of the Year: Meirion Pritchard, Wallpaper
Best Designed Features Spread: Grant Bowden, Ritz
Best Use of Typography: Grant Bowden, Ritz
Best New Design/Redesign: Marissa Bourke, Elle
Best Designed Front Cover: Marissa Bourke, Elle
Best Use of Illustration: Tan Parmar, Contact
Best Use of Photography: Dan Delaney, Onelife
Reviewer of the year: Andrew Billen, The London Magazine
Digital Journalist of the Year: Paul Grant, Accountancy Age
Business Reporter of the Year: Stuart MacDonald, Building
Exclusive of the year: Jonathan Green, Live
Feature Writer of the Year: Ariel Leve, The Sunday Times Magazine
Magazine Designer of the Year: Jonathan Gregory, Dirt Magazine
Editor of the Year: David Burton, Camouflage
Best-Designed B2B magazine: Dean Dorat, Contagious
Interviewer of the Year: Lesley White, The Sunday Times Magazine
Best-Designed Customer magazine: Dan Delaney, Onelife
Columnist of the Year: Michael Hodges, Time Out
Production Team of the Year: Esquire
Best Designed Magazine of the Year Consumer (Under 40k): Paul Willoughby & Rob Longworth, Little White Lies
News Reporter of the Year: Sally Gainsbury, Health Service Journal
Time Out founder Tony Elliott is looking for outside investors, thinking of putting listings online, and distributing a slimmed-down version of the magazine for free.