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RIP RIU

Postby Pseudo » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:50 am

Rip It Up to cease publication.

Sad news indeed.
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Re: RIP RIU

Postby Booney » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:51 am

Pseudo wrote:Rip It Up to cease publication.

Sad news indeed.


No way! That sux balls.
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Re: RIP RIU

Postby Pseudo » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:55 am

Booney wrote:
Pseudo wrote:Rip It Up to cease publication.

Sad news indeed.


No way! That sux balls.


Yes way. :(

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-08/a ... up/7493712
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Re: RIP RIU

Postby Dogwatcher » Thu Jun 09, 2016 12:19 pm

Bloody sad. They went to an online publication about a year ago and it hasn't really worked. Sadly, it's a pointer to what's happening in the industry.
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Re: RIP RIU

Postby Corona Man » Thu Jun 09, 2016 12:24 pm

Dogwatcher wrote:Bloody sad. They went to an online publication about a year ago and it hasn't really worked. Sadly, it's a pointer to what's happening in the industry.

Absolutely Dogwatcher. I am seeing it as well. A competitor of mine in Qld went purely online. Dead, buried gone within 6 months! The death of the newspaper was predicted 40 odd years ago, due to Radio & TV. Newspapers, despite their falling readership are surviving for now. Purely online publications face tough times, in terms of cut through. One online publication that I do subscribe too, can often take 5 or more minutes to download. Too hard. I close it down and get on with something else.
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Re: RIP RIU

Postby Booney » Thu Jun 09, 2016 12:43 pm

Corona Man wrote:
Dogwatcher wrote:Bloody sad. They went to an online publication about a year ago and it hasn't really worked. Sadly, it's a pointer to what's happening in the industry.

Absolutely Dogwatcher. I am seeing it as well. A competitor of mine in Qld went purely online. Dead, buried gone within 6 months! The death of the newspaper was predicted 40 odd years ago, due to Radio & TV. Newspapers, despite their falling readership are surviving for now. Purely online publications face tough times, in terms of cut through. One online publication that I do subscribe too, can often take 5 or more minutes to download. Too hard. I close it down and get on with something else.


I think the problem with online publications is the amount you can access thus it muddies the waters for what you actually spend time on.

Facebook read through, Twitter read through, couple of forums, update a podcast or two, maybe Nine MSN or News.com or the like and how have you got time for downloading and viewing anything else?
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Re: RIP RIU

Postby Corona Man » Thu Jun 09, 2016 12:54 pm

Booney wrote:
Corona Man wrote:
Dogwatcher wrote:Bloody sad. They went to an online publication about a year ago and it hasn't really worked. Sadly, it's a pointer to what's happening in the industry.

Absolutely Dogwatcher. I am seeing it as well. A competitor of mine in Qld went purely online. Dead, buried gone within 6 months! The death of the newspaper was predicted 40 odd years ago, due to Radio & TV. Newspapers, despite their falling readership are surviving for now. Purely online publications face tough times, in terms of cut through. One online publication that I do subscribe too, can often take 5 or more minutes to download. Too hard. I close it down and get on with something else.


I think the problem with online publications is the amount you can access thus it muddies the waters for what you actually spend time on.

Facebook read through, Twitter read through, couple of forums, update a podcast or two, maybe Nine MSN or News.com or the like and how have you got time for downloading and viewing anything else?


All good points Booney. For many of us who are "parked" at our PC's for much of our working hours, there is only so much time to "consume" anything. That applies to not only online but printed formats as well. I am more likely to flick through my local paper, or the fish wrapper (tiser) in the evenings, when I am NOT in front of a screen. Spending 8 or 9 hours on the PC, I avoid it in my down time. There are so many platforms as you have pointed out to reach consumers/readers that cut through is very difficult to achieve. From an advertising perspective its often best to engage the prospective at a time and place convenient to them.

I was not a reader of RIU, printed or online.
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Re: RIP RIU

Postby Booney » Thu Jun 09, 2016 1:03 pm

Indeed, outside of the 8-5 grind I barely look at a screen. You'll note rarely post on here on weekends.

So it seems the challenge is no longer getting a hard copy in our hands but also an electronic one on our screens. Hard work for advertisers.... ;)
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Re: RIP RIU

Postby Corona Man » Thu Jun 09, 2016 1:04 pm

Booney wrote:Indeed, outside of the 8-5 grind I barely look at a screen. You'll note rarely post on here on weekends.

So it seems the challenge is no longer getting a hard copy in our hands but also an electronic one on our screens. Hard work for advertisers.... ;)

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Re: RIP RIU

Postby Gozu » Thu Jun 09, 2016 8:55 pm

The official statement from Rip It Up:

http://ripitup.com.au/culture/rip-it-up ... r-27-years

It's sad to see Adelaide's major street press newspaper now finally go for good. I remember when the owner sold it for $1 million to that spanish guy and not that long after she did the print publication shut down and it went solely online. When that happened long time writer/editor Robert Dunstan moved over to dB magazine but it shut down about six months after Rip It Up went fully online.

RIP Rip It Up and dB magazine

Since the demise of dB Dunstan has started up his own street press newspaper BSide Magazine.
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Re: RIP RIU

Postby saintal » Tue Jun 14, 2016 8:11 pm

Picking up RIU used to a weekly ritual. Cant say I went to the online version too often though.

db was the better publication back in the day, for what it's worth.
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Re: RIP RIU

Postby Gozu » Thu Jun 16, 2016 7:09 pm

saintal wrote:db was the better publication back in the day, for what it's worth.


Agreed.

FWIW, I just found out the other day former long time dB writer Andrew P Street now has a column with the Sydney Morning Herald and also has a podcast show with one of the guys from The Chaser team.

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/view-from-the-street

He was a pretty cool guy to deal with at dB too.
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Re: RIP RIU

Postby Wedgie » Sun Jun 19, 2016 10:26 pm

Loved RIU but like so many others I never bothered with its online version.
Online publications mainly don't work IMHO.
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Re: RIP RIU

Postby Jase » Sun Jun 19, 2016 10:37 pm

Mate of mine used to do CD and gig reviews for dB back in the day... good times...
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