Digital: Publishing brands

GialloZafferano, the Mondadori Group brand that is a point of reference for Italians in the kitchen, is enhancing its web site with a new recipe section, created in collaboration with Iginio Massari, himself a point of reference in Italian pastry making.

The project includes a collection of 15 dessert reipes: to the 8 that are already online on the site will be added others week by week, created by the master pastry chef directly in the GialloZafferano kitchen.

Plus, on 12 November, Iginio Massari will be the star of a Master Class dedicated to pastry cream: and the maestro will use the social media channels of GialloZafferano to answer the questions and doubts of the community about this type of preparation.

With this collaboration, the brand, which has some 13 million unique users, will reinforce its relationship with leading high-end Italian chefs, master pastry chefs and bakers. The illustrious pastry chef, who is also currently involved in the opening of a new boutique in Turin, was judged to be the best in the world during the World Pastry Stars 2019, the international congress of high-end pastry-making.

All of the master pastry chef’s recipes will be available also on the social media channels of GialloZafferano and optimised for the smart speakers  Google Assistant and Alexa.

Mypersonaltrainer, the Mondadori Group site that is a point of reference for health for over 11 million unique users per month is enhancing its offer and has been transformed into an all-round editorial brand A new logo logo, a new look, a team of fitfluencers with video tutorials focused on wellbeing and a new Instagram profile: are among the main new features which, together with a new and authoritative scientific committee, will help to inspire a healthy lifestyle

• New look: the redesigned heart-shaped logo is emblematic of the brands new objective, to help you to live a healthier and happier life. The editorial content is organised in thematic areas and divided on the basis of energetic colours which help users to find their way. Moreover, the site is both more dynamic and easier to use, also from a mobile device, and able to make suggestions and point users in the direction of pertinent and personalised content

• Scientific committee: made up of specialist doctors from a selected number of hospitals, initially the Istituto Auxologico Italianoand the Ospedale Niguarda, who will provide additional supervision of the more scientific content

• Fitness influencers and video: an exciting collaboration has been launched with a pool of fitfluencers. Experts in yoga, Pilates, running, fitness, workouts and healthy recipes are the protagonists of a range of videos that Mypersonaltrainer users can access anywhere, on any of the brand’s digital channels, at home, in the garden, the office or the car.
  The videos will have a schedule, with fixed appointments each day of the week.

• Instagram: the brand is also expanding its social community, which is already strong on YouTube – with 264,000 subscribers and 1.5 million views – on Facebook – with 340,000 followers and reaching over 3 million people, with a new Instagram profile, and becoming an authentic social magazine. The content will range from the fitfluencer videos, to motivational memes, short video tutorials, photo recipes and thematic infographics

The new brand, already appreciated in the last year by leading advertisers in the health and wellbeing area, will offer its partners new, integrated, multi-channel communication opportunities, with branded content and tailor-made videos for storytelling initiatives for their products.

SCHEDA

The fit influencers:

– Gabriella Vico,  fitness trainer – Former volleyball player, professional trainer and nutritionist, working in Italy, France and Spain. Offering fitness training with exercises related to different muscle groups

– YOGAESSENTIAL, yoga lessons – Elena Vitale and Selena Mercandelli, yoga teachers, creators of the YOGAESSENTIAL clothing line inspired by the practice and Made In Italy, and the Milan yoga school Spazio Garibaldi 77, offer the different styles of yoga with the best teachers from the discipline

– Cristina Turini, running trainer – Architect and running mother, she is the creator of the Instagram profile Run and the City which brings together outfits, music, photos and a healthy lifestyle

– Federico Trombini, fitness school – Personal trainer, hiker and naturopath. Scuola di fitness is the titl of his column which focuses on functional training and the mistakes to avoid. For example, how to tackle a squat by improving balance and control skills, which helps to minimise injuries to the ankles and knees

– Denise della Giacoma, Pilates lessons – Former cross-country skier, teacher of Pilates, yoga and wellbeing techniques. A globetrotter, her videos are shot in some very attractive locations

– Alice Mazzo, the protagonist Alice’s Recipes. In fact, Alice’s heart beats for healthy eating: a food enthusiast, her mission is to transmit her passion for healthy cooking, transforming high-calorie bombs into light mouthfulls, without renouncing taste

Studenti.it, the Mondadori Group brand, leader in the Italian educational sector with 4.3 million unique users per month (Source: Audiweb, March 2019), has recorded an excellent performance on both the site and on social networks during the period of the 2019 Maturità (Italy’s final high school exams).

Supporting students in their studies for more than 20 years, also this year Studenti.it ran non-stop coverage of the exams from 7 am to 8 pm, with real time updates, comments from tutors and experts and mock exams, as well as interviews with students outside schools before and after the written tests, and reaching an absolute record level of traffic. The Maturità Special on the site from 17 to 23 June was followed by 3.6 million unique users, +14% compared with the previous year, with 77% access from smartphones (Source: Google Analytics).

In the first week alone after its release,  the video of Maturandi, the anthem of the 2019 Maturità by Lorenzo Baglioni, an exclusive co-production with Studenti.it, recorded over 800,000 views across all social platforms and on the web site.

An authentic anthem for the students involved in the exams that the artist presented during an event entitled La notte dei maturandi, on Tuesday 18 June at the Mondadori Megastore in Piazza Duomo and in live  streaming on Facebook and YouTube. Some 340,000 people saw the live social coverage of the special talk show presented by Lorenzo Baglioni and the content creator Lea Cuccaroni, with very special guests, such as the influencer Ludovica Pagani, the face of TV’s Le Iene Matteo Viviani, the scientific YouTuber Adrian Fartade, the comedian Filippo Caccamo, the presenter Andrea Delogu, and Alessandro Sansone, the speaker from Radio 105, the media partner of the event, who shared anecdotes, suggestions and advice on the eve of the first written exam.

On the Facebook page, which has 482,000 fans, the Studenti.it team coordinated a group dedicated to the 2019 Maturità with 36,000 subscribers and where students could exchange ideas and useful information about the exams.

From McDonald’s the new McChicken Variation, a burger made with 100% Italian chicken breast and the result of a meeting between the experience of GialloZafferano in Italian cooking and the unmistakable touch of McDonald’s. The new McChicken Variation will be available at McDonald’s restaurants from 12 June.

The new recipes have been created by chefs from GialloZafferano and McDonald’s, an authentic co-creation. In fact, the selection of the new burgers involved the online communities online of GialloZafferano and McDonald’s who, for the first time in Italy were asked to choose new flavours to enhance the McChicken range, voting on two recipes based on Italian products. With a total of around 200,000 online votes in two weeks, the McChicken Delicato recipe received the majority of votes and, along with the McChicken Saporito, gain the right to be included on the McDonald’s menu.

In addition to the classic McChicken, one of the most iconic and best loved burgers, it will be possible to find the two new recipes in all of McDonald’s 600 recipes: McChicken Delicato, with Provolone Valpadana DOP, grilled courgettes and sun-dried tomato sauce from Puglia; and McChicken Saporito, with Toma made with 100% Italian milk, crispy bacon, tomato and mayonnaise with grain mustard. Both of the new burgers use only 100% Italian chicken breast.

“We are excited to announce this important collaboration with GialloZafferano, the most loved web site by Italians in the kitchen, which has enabled us to create new recipes and experiment with new ingredients. Also, for the first time, we have asked Italians to vote by choosing their favourite recipe,” said Mario Federico, chief executive of McDonald’s Italy.

“It is an honour and a challenge for us to sign, as GialloZafferano, two new burgers by McDonald’s, with an Italian taste and featuring a combination of selected ingredients from around the country. I am sure that customers will like them because, for the first time, while we proposed them some 200,000 people selected them as their favourites in a vote. And, like all of the recipes that come from the kitchens of GialloZafferano, people will also be able to prepare them in their own kitchens a home an reproduce an real McDonald’s burger,” declared Andrea Santagata, Chief Innovation Officer of the Mondadori Group.

A collaboration based on important common values: constant attention to consumer tastes, a passion for high quality ingredients and a propensity for innovation.

With these new products come alongside an increase in investments by McDonald’s in the Italian food sector thanks to an additional  145 tons of raw materials bought from local suppliers for the new McChicken Variation. In fact, the new recipes will use around 42 tons of Toma made from 100% Italian milk, 36 tons of Provolone Valpadana DOP, 58 tons of grilled courgettes and 11 tons of sun-dried tomatoes from Puglia.

Moreover, thanks to the video-recipes available online from GialloZafferano, McChicken Variation can also be made at home.

GialloZafferano, the Mondadori Group brand and a cookery point of reference for 14 million Italian every month (Source: Audiweb 2.0, January 2019) and 7 million fans on social networks, form today is further expanding the content on its site with the inauguration of a new “Wellbeing” channel.

A section featuring over 800 recipes selected on the basis of ingredients and cooking methods, further enhanced with useful nutritional information for those who want to dedicate more attention to and awareness about the food they eat every day.

The new area, characterised by the colour green, aims to give voice to the latest trends in food, while developing the relationship between wellbeing and diet that is increasingly desired by  the food lovers of GialloZafferano: the majority of the fans on the Facebook page in other words, the “green enthusiasts” interested in the link between fitness and wellness, and 1 in 3 fans who express a particular interest in biological and vegetarian food

The brand new section of the site is completed with a  Good to know column, where, for the first time, in addition to recipes, GialloZafferano accompanies users in the preparation of dishes with information and background detail that cut across the entire are of dietary wellbeing, following the seasons and the beneficial properties of ingredients and the trend for “free from” and “rich in” products. A combination of articles, ideas and references to selected recipes guaranteed by the supervision of a biological nutritionist.

A new look, a fresh style and a range of integrated content to enhance the rest of the site. All of the 4.400 GialloZafferano recipes complete with information regarding calories and fundamental nutritional value, and for every dish, indications regarding intolerances and special dietary needs: e.g. gluten-free, lactose-free, low-nickel, vegetarian.

And the brand’s evolution and innovation doesn’t stop here as, after having been a pioneer with the introduction of Virtual Cooking Assistants, thanks to the widespread existence of devices that are compatible with  digital assistants, GialloZafferano will also become Italy’s primo “vocal” cooking site able to “talk” to its users thanks to the direct integration of Google Assistant.

In fact, from today, Google Assistat will be able to read all of the recipes on the site, offering users the chance to cook easily and comfortably without leaving the cooker. All you have to do is to click of the special key to activate assisted preparation and you can celebrate any special occasion with the perfect dish.

And for advertisers, the new channel responds to the current shelf offer of a great many food products inspired by the concept of wellbeing: biological, gluten-free, low-fat, etc. And companies can benefit from the precise delivery of display formats in closely aligned contexts, as well as finding numerous ideas for native visibility, content advertising and projects.

The launch of the new GialloZafferano will also involve Danone Activia in the role of main sponsor, exclusively for the whole of the first week.

In support of the launch a B2B and B2C has been planned with the creativity once again overseen by the agency Casiraghi Greco &, and using digital titles, social and print outlets in the sector, the iDD out of home circuit as well as the in target principal brands of the Mondadori Group.

Giallozafferano, the Mondadori Group magazine created by Italy’s leading cooking web site, is celebrating its second anniversary and from Saturday 16 March will be out with a new look and new content.

“Two years ago Giallozafferano first hit the newsstands: the first magazine to have ben created from a web site. And thanks to the combination of two worlds we managed to produce a magazine with a unique character that was highly distinctive compared with the existing offer. And the public took to it immediately. Now, we want to give our readers something new in order to celebrate together and to thank them,” declared Laura Maragliano, editor of Giallozafferano.

Giallozafferano will continue every month to deliver cooking in the hands of the readers through its unmistakable offer of recipes within the reach of everyone, and now enhanced with bigger and more detailed photographs, with new typefaces, more white space and a more ordered use of colour across the different sections.

Also the content will be expanded with the introduction of new columns:

– Healthy eating: information about food, seasonal ingredients, and suggestions for healthier and lighter cooking methods;

– Bottled pleasure: to discover the right combinations with the best labels of wine and beer available on the;

– The Giallo school: even more sweet and savoury specialities explained with step-by-step photographs, in the characteristic Giallozafferano style, with indications about cuts of meat and fish, advice on entertaining and do-it-yourself, as well as a focus on kitchen objects, utensils, and the latest generation appliances.

At the heart of the magazine are the faces of the web site, Manuel, for quick and ethnic meals, Giovanni, for traditional fare, Aurora, for vegetarian dishes, who in every issue will face a different culinary challenge, for which the readers can vote on the site or on the app.

For the launch of the new Giallozafferano an advertising campaign has been planned across different media with TV commercials, on Mediaset channels, Fox and Discovery, radio commercials on the R101 and Radio Monte Carlo stations and a press campaign on Mondadori magazines.

The Mondadori Group’s food system features an offer that covers all segments of the cooking sector: from Giallozafferano to historic titles such as Sale&Pepe, with the Cookery School, and Cucina Moderna, as well as CookAround. A portfolio of multi-channel brands that reach a market share in terms of circulation of over 41% of the segment and an overall total audience of more than 16 million contacts, of which over 1.8 million readers per month (Mediamond calculations based on data from Audipress 2018/III, Audiweb 2.0 media Sept-Nov 2018, circulation data ADS Jan-Dec 2018).

The Mondadori Group continues to pursue digital innovation. The leading publisher for the passions and interests of Italians currently attracts 26.5 million unique users per month (Source: Audiweb, November 2018) and a competitive positioning that makes it a leaders also in social media, with a total of 26.3 million fans through130 profiles.

Every second 300 new users visit a Mondadori Group site 14 people interact on the brands’ social network pages.

OUR STRONG POINTS

• Video factory: an annual production of 10.000 videos 4 different formats, generating over 200 million views per month.

• People: an internal team of 180 talents, including content editor, videomakers, cooks, product designers and data scientists.

• Innovation is in our DNA: from proprietary semantic search engines to Altervista, Italy’s leading blogging platform prima. Mondadori is also among the first Italian publishers to test and adopt innovating conversational interfaces, such as chatbots, intelligent speakers and connected devices.

CONTINUING TO EVOLVE OUR PRODUCTS

The development of languages and engagement systems for users, from the use of video to the valorisation of new web-based talents such as influencers and YouTubers, to the control of all of the touchpoints: our business models makes it possible to respond to new challenges and development opportunities, while constantly focusing on the real needs of users.

Today, our brands are authentic multimedia systems ranged across print, the web, social media, apps, smart speakers, TV and events.

In 2019 the evolution of our products will affect some of the iconic brands in the high-value vertical markets: food, women, beauty, health and wellbeing, design, male lifestyle.

FOOD

Giallozafferano:

• From April, a new look for the web site and a new Giallozafferano Benessere channel, with over 4,000 recipes, enhanced with information about nutritional values and calories.
• The first vocal site with integrated Google Assistant.
• The first on vocal devices: Google Home, Amazon Alexa’s Echo Show, Samsung’s Bixby.

WOMEN AND BEAUTY

Donna Moderna:

• Donna Moderna Beauty: a new social magazine will be launched after the summer dedicated to the world of beauty and conceived by millennials for millennials, with the special participation of Beauty Influencers.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Mypersonaltrainer:

• a complete overhaul of the site affecting all of its touchpoints from September.
• A new series of videos involving Fitness Influencers.

MALE LIFESTYLE

Icon:

• A new format for the site from March: ideas, inspirations and and models, with the style and shopping guides that today’s man needs.
• Icon Wheels: the creation of a new channel dedicated to luxury and exclusive car.
• Fashion, beauty, grooming, how-to-spend with videos, tutorials and a selection of the best products.

DESIGN

Icon Design and Interni:

• A restyling of the sites to coincide with Milan’s Design Week 2019.

Further success for the Mondadori Group in the digital area as it is confirmed as Italy’s leading publisher in the list drawn up by Comscore. According to the figures for November 2018, the audience of the Mondadori brands reached 30 million unique users per month, an 11% increase on the previous year.

In a market in which the digital population is constantly expanding, Mondadori’s reach is conformed as the most extensive among Italian publishers (75%): with three out of four people visiting the Group’s sites and using a unique offer of quality content.

A breakthrough to which a special contribution has been made by the success of some of Mondadori’s strongest brands, which provide a prompt response to the needs of the population by covering a range of interests in the areas of food, beauty and wellnes.

These include, Giallozafferano, the point of reference for Italian food lovers, with a peak audience of almost 16 million unique users per month; Donna Moderna, which, with over 13 million unique users per month, confirmed its position as the publishing network of reference for women in Italy; Starbene, which, along with Mypersonaltrainer, is the leader in the world of health and wellness, reaching 10 million unique users per month.

Mondadori starts the new year also as the leading publisher on social networks, thanks to a fan base across the Group’s 100 social media properties that have an overall total of 26 million fans on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

GialloZafferano, the Mondadori Group brand that is a point of reference for Italian food lovers with a monthly average of 12 million  unique users (source: Audiweb, July 2018), more than 6 million fans on Facebook and more than 600,000 readers of the magazine each month, is extending its mission to assist Italians in the kitchen with its new Skill for Amazon Alexa, Amazon’s cloud-based voice service.

In fact, from today, owners of Echo, the new Amazon device, can interact with Alexa to find inspiration for dishes to prepare, with access to all of the Giallo Zafferano recipes.

“We are particularly proud to be working with Amazon for the new Skill of GialloZafferano,” declared Andrea Santagata, deputy general manager of the Mondadori Group’s Magazines Italy division. “With Amazon Alexa people who love cooking will have access to an innovative voice service that provides convenient assistance in the search for recipes and ingredients, in an entirely natural and friendly way.”

All you have to do is say “Alexa, open GialloZafferano” to enter a world of delicious ideas and ask “Alexa, let’s start cooking” to be assisted in all phases, step by step in a way in which the user can also interrupt the preparation at any time and start again from where they left off, and without ever having to use their hands, which are normally employed in the kitchen. So you can continue to cut, chop, mix while Alexa describes the next step, available also on video for Echo Spot, the Amazon Echo device equipped with a screen.

GialloZafferano, on the strength of the success of Italy’s number one cooking site, from which has been created a monthly magazine that in a little over a year has reached an average circulation of over 120,000 (source Ads, March 2018), a series of books and a TV show on Canale 5, now in its second season, can now also count on an even more articulated multi-channel offer, able to support users at any time of the day.

An all time record Maturità (the Italian high school exam) season for Studenti.it, the Mondadori Groiup brand that is a point of reference for Italian students. The site, which this year is celebrating its 20^th anniversary, chalked up its best ever traffic figures during the recently concluded period of written exams, confirming its leadership in the education segment.

In the 3-day period from the eve of the exams until the second written paper, Studenti.it recorded double-digit growth, during the live marathon from 19 to 21 June, reaching 2.3 million unique users; there was also a particularly significant boom in access from mobile devices, which in the same days accounted for 73% of the site’s total traffic (source: Google Analytics).

Also of significance was  triple-digit growth on Facebook. The “Maturità 2018” group, coordinated by the Studenti.it team, saw an authentic flood of registrations, reaching a total of 42,000 subscribers (+280% compared with 2017): exam candidates who up until the “night before the exams” continued to interact with each other looking for help and, in turn, offering their support to their peers. Overall, thanks to constant activity on the fan page, in the week of the written exams, Studenti.it content reached 2.4 million users, a figure that rises to 3.8 million when the data for the last month is taken into account. Also in this case an extraordinary performance compared with 2017, with increases of more than 250% (source: Facebook Insights).

So, an increasingly social and digital maturità, made possible also thanks to the quality of video content: in addition to live feeds with experts, psychologists and tutors in preparation for the exams, the big new feature this year was the involvement of webstars and youtubers such as Favij, Frank Matano, Sofia Viscardi and Salvatore Aranzulla, who talked about their experiences with the maturità through live specials on social media and popular video clips. In fact, during the last month, including the exam days, the Studenti.it platforms (Facebook, YouTube and the web site) recorded 4 million video views.