Comments on: Goodbye PC Mag Philippines

By: Ziff Davis to stop PCMag print-edition | YugaTech | Philippines, Technology News & Reviews

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:38:32 +0000

[...] February last year, we was reported that PC Mag Philippines will stop publication and early this year, parent company Ziff-Davis filed [...]

By: Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:27:35 +0000

Exactly.

That’s why I believe what I heard sometime: that PC Buyer’s Guide Philippines was leading.

It’s not a magazine, but it contains useful local info — prices.

By: Amakusa

Amakusa — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:53:20 +0000

The thing that people need to understand here is that the reason the local Mags are dying is primarily due to the content. Most of the content of local IT mags contain copied, or sourced, content from the parent publication. If a local mag were to be successful, we will need all original content, reviews by local people and trends that we currently have in the Philippines and not some western country.

If I wanted to read about the trends from the west, I’d just read stick to my RSS feeds from their websites, but if I wanted to see what’s happening on the local scene, where do I turn to?

Just use FHM as an example, almost all content are local to the Philippines, why can’t tech mags be the same?

By: Jomar

Jomar — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:48:52 +0000

With the throne vacant in the tech magazine category, who will take up the challenge? Are there any challengers? Or has the web ironically removed from circulation one of the magazines that have helped made it popular? I still remember the old Yahoo! magazines…

As I see it, only BABES+GADGETS win in this market. If HIP will make another tech (pinoy/locally made) magazine –i think it will look EXACTLY like the Mobile Philippines – only its not just mobile but all of tech.

Jomar

By: Berlin

Berlin — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:44:50 +0000

off-topic

Is there a Pinoy tech forum or maybe a web 2.0 forum?

By: EPE

EPE — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:28:07 +0000

Hmmm… I am not surprised.

I got some of the issues of this mag, and I also thought that it’s probably not cost-effective to be licensing a foreign-brand tech magazine when maybe a local mag can be produced and marketed. And some of the articles there were really for a US-based reader (and written by US-based authors). I think HIP should develop its own tech magazine just like some locally produced home-style mags—there are a number of them that seem to be successful–proof: they’re still here (already more than 3 years). These mags can relate more with Filipino readers and consumers–prices are in pesos, and featured stuff can be bought here–unlike in the foreign mags! Furthermore, doing an all-local mag means production cost will be cheaper cuz there is no more licensing fee.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:29:43 +0000

Maybe they should revive the PC Magazine Blog. Then of course there's PWiT - some people in PWiT are from HIP. As for the industry... the men's and women's mags are fine since the readers are not Internet users in general... for a tech mag, they can just go online, head to PTB (or PWiT), or visit ZDNet, Cnet...

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:00:33 +0000

“is the local magazine industry dying?”

I doubt it. FHM and other men’s magazines all seem to be doing fine. Same with glam magazines. And of course there’s the neverending stream of gossip and celeb mags that you see in beauty parlors. PC Magazine’s demise is not indicative of any general trend.

I don’t read the local PC Mag anyway, half of the content are months-old reprints from PC Mag USA.

By: hoop

hoop — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:24:44 +0000

Maybe the writers could do a Newsbreak and try setting up an online version of a tech magazine… the main overhead would probably salaries