Ansif Ashraf Elucidates About His Vision Behind The ‘British Herald eMagazine’

Martin Gray
4 min readOct 13, 2020

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Ansif Ashraf, Executive Director at British Herald, at first had doubts about entering the digital magazine realm. As the originator and leader of British Herald Ashraf highlight: that he saw enormous difficulties with the client’s involvement with mobile, just as obstacles in getting hands on the first issue by the new subscribers. Accordingly understood the botched chance for magazines and papers.

BritishHerald.com is an online news and information conveyance platform. The brand is claimed by Herald Media network Limited, the United Kingdom, which is one of the pioneers in the worldwide media market. It thrives on its united qualities in the digital media and correspondence, just as its entrenched branding and advertising network under its flagships title. Business Herald has ventured into the digital business in recent years, breaking local limits and making itself one of the leading players in the realm of digital media.

British Herald Magazine

British Herald is a British magazine distributed every other month. It highlights original reporting, discourse, and analysis concentrating on business, investment, innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle. The magazine is accessible at digital magazine stores like Magzter, ISSUU furthermore, Amazon Kindle.

Additionally, British Herald eMagazine is distributed through Magzter, the world’s largest Digital News Stand, which has 50 Million Plus Users.

“I didn’t admire the item,” he sincerely concedes, while examining early versatile cycles of different digital publications.

“It’s one of the torment focuses for magazine distributors,” Ashraf said. “They’ve attempted much throughout the years, to fluctuating degrees of progress and, for the most part, ineffective outcomes.”

It’s likewise dangerous since more readers get their reports from versatile destinations. As per Pew Research, the rate wherein readers get news through portable devices has significantly increased in only five years.

With British Herald eMagazine, Ansif Ashraf was determined to go global and extend the reach of news beyond the border. Pursuing his post-graduation in Journalism, from the London School of Journalism, Ashraf decided to establish a platform that is totally online, connecting the readers from all across the globe.

“I wanted to develop that can reach out to people right away, explaining them about the latest happening in different sectors of business, tech, innovation, leadership, and much,” says Ansif Ashraf.

Being an entrepreneur who took e-commerce as the promise of future into a global business, making him win the honour of World’s Top e-Business Champion of the year 2008, by APEC, Ansif Ashraf desired that the readers of his eMagazine to know all that is going in the world of business.

He is the Founder President of Young Chamber of Commerce & the former e-Coach and mentor of Youth Employment Network which was a partnership of United Nations, World Bank & ILO, and wished to expand his reach globally, making them informed about the employment and commerce world, which British Herald eMagzine best served to fulfill.

Redoing The Versatile Experience

eMagazines conveys a universal reading experience. On mobile, the content is reflowed, so it’s anything but difficult to peruse. All textual styles, pictures, symbols, and other article resources are reflowed for the cell phone and hold the magazine’s look and feel. On the desktop, the client encounters a full copy of the digital release. The format is equivalent to the print variant, without needing to be print.

“It’s simply simple to read and stay updated,” says Ansif Ashraf.

Quick Help, Prompt Readers

In the day in and day out the world that publishing has become, a contention has emerged with how readers see their first issue. It can take between about a month or two for new subscribers to have their first issue after buying it. “People are additionally requesting. The new print reader needs to peruse the current issue immediately, and eMagzines serves the purpose just right,” says Ansif Ashraf.

eMagazines are better since they help save the planet as well, and the final product is an eco-friendly distribution that adds to tree protection. They also permit to reach more crowds with the content than a traditional print magazine, on the grounds, the digital magazines can bolster connections and rich media. “You can see recordings while you are perusing a particular article, and you can share it with your loved ones on the off chance that you like it with a single touch, it’s just that easy.” Says Ansif Ashraf.

Today, British Herald Magazine serves as a wellspring of global happenings and information. The magazine’s latest issue went dark mode in solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter trend, featuring the special article in memory of ‘George Floyd,’ the US citizen who became a victim of police brutality.

“Our vision is to seek the pathway of correct news and dissipate factual information; we wish to create awareness among our readers that journalism is not to be focused only regionally. In fact, all the voice must be heard globally. This is also the prime reason we decided to extend our deepest grief regarding the brutal killing by police by publishing our special dark mode edition lately,” says Ansif Ashraf.

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Martin Gray
Martin Gray

Written by Martin Gray

Martin Gray has BSc Degree in MediaLab Arts from the University of Plymouth. He currently lives in New York city. All links here: linktr.ee/martingray

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