Thomas Crampton

Social Media in China and across Asia

TimeOut comes to Hong Kong

Feb 1, 2008

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No word on the exact launch date, but they have a website url. This will be a challenge for HK Magazine, BC Magazine and the other events magazines of Hong Kong.

UPDATE: Matt Eaton has written a couple good articles for Marketing – Interactive on the launch.

Eaton names some names:

Desiree Au, former editor of the South China Morning Post’s Post Magazine has been appointed publisher of TimeOut.

Former Post Magazine staffer Paul Kay has been named editor.

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  • pamela gregson

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  • Ann Onymous

    TOHK will launch on April 23

    They also have a facebook page, visit it at http://www.facebook.com/group....

  • going to be launched in late april

  • rykky

    I have great hopes on TimeOut! I hope that they can serve as a cultural events curator and a great culture critic! Most magazines in HK has no cultural criticism, or they are just extremely superficial, binary-style ones(Good/Bad, without good reasons). However, I see a great challenge TimeOut has to face, that is to get under the skin of HK culture and gain approval by the general public(not just the pretentious tasteful middle class).
    Save us TimeOut, if you can! Push us towards a La Modiva in Hong Kong!

  • Update:

    Sources say:
    * Time Out is filled with ex-SCMP staffers.
    * It will sell for $18 an issue
    * Bi-weekly
    * Their rate card has begun circulating.

    Still the question: Will people buy it regularly?

  • I have heard that TimeOut will be published weekly and sold from newsstands for a price between 15 to 25HKD.

    The arrival of TimeOut comes about 2 years after U magazine launched in Hong Kong (for the Chinese-language market) with a model based on TimeOut.

    Can a second TimeOut exist in Hong Kong?

  • Launch date is now set for April, but looking around this place, I'd be surprised if it happens!

  • HK reader

    Yes! This will wake up HK, BC and the other mags.

  • Ethan Ronen

    Its about time Hong Kong had a proper city mag.

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