OMG! & Love it! to merge...

Midnighter

... and become Love it! featuring OMG!

Yep, not surprisingly OMG! is merging with Love it! from the issue on sale the Thursday after next. Can't help wondering what effect this is going to have on the comps from Love it! as OMG! magazine's comps are already on the 'Do not post' list

mjm3346

Only surprise is they lasted as long as they did when they were offering nothing new in a declining market and up against long established titles.

BlueBella

Goodtoknow looks like it is on its way out too - no new daily comps for a while now! Another one bites the dust!

hamsterfan1

BlueBella wrote: »

Goodtoknow looks like it is on its way out too - no new daily comps for a while now! Another one bites the dust!

not that it sends its prizes out anyway - been waiting since ens of may for one

fire**fly

August 13th they merge & says this on the mag

http://www.omg-magazine.co.uk/competitions/

might be worth registering just in case we can manage to get
the comps posted, or find them on another comp site that doesn't
mind them posted.

Midnighter

I only realised they were accepting online entries this morning. So I registered thinking I'd be able to enter the last issue's comps, logged in, and found that their entry form was five or six weeks out of date.

fire**fly

Midnighter wrote: »

I only realised they were accepting online entries this morning. So I registered thinking I'd be able to enter the last issue's comps, logged in, and found that their entry form was five or six weeks out of date.

looks like teething probs to me but suppose we'll
have to wait & see what happens when the merge
gets sorted.

mjm3346

They don't update their website/twitter feed very often, the website referring to the May 28th issue as "the latest/out now" and their last tweet was 1st June but they are still posting the comp answers on FB (presumably after the closing dates, the most recent answers are issue 21)

https://www.facebook.com/readOMG?fref=ts


(the online entry option has been on the website at least 2 weeks and possibly since 11th June)

Midnighter

According to this report it's OMG! that have taken over Love it! rather than the other way round. I also see that while OMG's website is still up, but not updated, Love it's seems to have disappeared. When trying to access the main page it's blocked here as !!!!!!, though someone's mentioned it's now a mobile phone site, and every other section of the site returns a 404 error.

mjm3346

This was part of a FB post on the OMG page

We'd like to reach out to an even BIGGER market, hence the decision to merge, but effectively it is still OMG! but with love it! as the new title.
All I can ask is you give it a go on August 13 because we promise you will not be disappointed. All the regular OMG features have been included and we've thrown in a few extra features as well for you to enjoy.
There will be more prizes to win, more giveaways and all the winners will be notified by email and on Facebook and Twitter.

Even though loveits circulation dropped 10% last year to barely 100,000 I suspect that was miles ahead of omg and a chance to offload loveit was probably better for the publisher than closing it (they shut down their other title Full House Mag ages ago)

jamielmdjs

All my email entries to Love it comps this month bounced back and failed.


Could this be the reason?