{"id":12906,"date":"2008-06-16T10:35:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T14:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=12906"},"modified":"2008-06-16T10:38:17","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T14:38:17","slug":"piq-magazine-reaches-its-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/piq-magazine-reaches-its-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"PiQ Magazine Reaches Its Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AD Vision&#8217;s PiQ Magazine has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piqmag.com\/2008\/06\/14\/the-last-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\">formally announced<\/a> that its current fourth issue, cover dated July 2008, will be the publication&#8217;s final issue. Continued production of the magazine has been canceled due to, &#8220;a combination of low advertising revenue, poor business management and a lack of proper marketing and promotion.&#8221; The entertainment culture magazine launched in March as a successor to the discontinued Newtype USA anime magazine.<\/p>\n<p><i>The formal announcement begins with the statement, &#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate that we&#8217;ll never get a chance to see how successful PiQ could have been.&#8221; But doesn&#8217;t the very fact that the statement is being made demonstrate PiQ&#8217;s relative success?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2008-06-14\/freelancers-report-that-piq-july-issue-is-its-last\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AD Vision&#8217;s PiQ Magazine has formally announced that its current fourth issue, cover dated July 2008, will be the publication&#8217;s final issue. Continued production of the magazine has been canceled due to, &#8220;a combination of low advertising revenue, poor business management and a lack of proper marketing and promotion.&#8221; The entertainment culture magazine launched in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}