Spotlight on Canada

Welcome to a valuable resource for our Canadian members. Here you'll find highlights of industry news affecting the Canadian market, up-to-date rules and much more.

Over the company's history, ABC has dedicated itself to the unique needs of the Canadian market, including: separate board director representation, board-level committees, buyer and publisher advisory committees, and individual rules designed to meet the need of Canadian media buyers and sellers.

• Five Newcom Business Media Titles Apply for ABC Membership
• ABC Board Finalizes New Community Newspaper Service, Elects Officers and Directors
• Summary of November 2009 Canadian board actions
• ABC Board Approves New Community Newspaper Service, Examines Scan-Based Trading Issues
• Summary of July 2009 Canadian board actions
• ABC Hires New Executive to Lead Canadian Office
• Definition of Magazine Digital Editions Broadened
• ABC Creates Canada Board, Increases Autonomy and Control

• Audit Bureau get more interactive with Digital Advisory Committee (Marketing Magazine)
• The secret to magazine sales? (Globe and Mail)
• ABC Fas-Fax reports newsstand sales are rebounding (Masthead Online)
• Can the Web save newspapers? (Toronto Star)
• The future of the magazine (Globe and Mail)
• Year end Q & A: Brian Segal (Masthead Online)
• Web Boosts Newspaper Readership: NADbank (Marketing Magazine)
• Print publishers ready to go mobile, says ABC (Media in Canada)
• Magazines see hope in latest circulation data (Canadian Broadcasting Centre)
• Slide in overall magazine circ slows (Media in Canada)
• Boot Steps into ABC Canada Chair's Shoes (Marketing Magazine)
• New community newspaper service approved (Media in Canada)
• Brehl to lead ABC marketing in Canada (Marketing Magazine)
• New exec at ABC Canada (Media in Canada)
• ABC Appoints VP to Lead Canadian Office (Editor and Publisher)
• Six Directors Appointed to New ABC Canada Board (Media in Canada)
• ABC Releases Report Card on Canadian Dailies (Media in Canada)
• ABC Canadian committee expanding (Masthead Online)
• Say Hello! to Canada's magazine sales hit (Financial Post)
• ABC moves to off-site auditing (Masthead)
• Website auditing: What you need to know (Masthead)

• Newsbulletin
• Case Studies
• POVs
• Bylaws & Rules Bulletin

• Flyer Distribution Verification Service
• Canadian Circulation of U.S. Magazines

• ABC recrute un nouveau directeur pour son bureau canadien
• Enquête sur les pratiques des publications (Survey of publication practices)
• Status et Règlements (Bylaws & Rules)
• Ventes à des tiers – Formulaire de notification (Third party notification form)

• Timeline of Canadian ABC highlights
• Bylaws and Rules
  • Article 20 for Canadian newspapers
• Prototype Reports
  • Newspapers
    • FDVS report
    • Daily newspaper Publisher's Statement
  • Consumer Magazines
    • Paid and verified Publisher's Statement
    • Paid and verified with digital edition Publisher's Statement
    • Paid, verified and analyzed non-paid Publisher's Statement
    • Analyzed non-paid Publisher's Statement
  • Business Publications
    • Paid Publisher's Statement
    • Paid and qualified non-paid Publisher's Statement
    • Paid and qualifed non-paid digital Publisher's Statement
    • Multimedia Publisher's Statement
• Guidebooks
  • Newspaper electronic editions guidebook
  • Newspaper home-delivery promotions guidebook
  • Newspaper hotel guidebook
  • Newspaper NIE guidebook
  • Newspaper single-copy promotions guidebook
  • Newspaper third-party sales guidebook

• Canadian ABC members
• ABC Canada Board
• ABC North American Board
• Canadian Newspaper Advisory Committee
• Canadian Print Advertising Buyers Committee
• Become an ABC member

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