Best practice: Making the most of magazines

This best practice piece covers the magazine sector. Magazines, it asserts are the most fragmented of media sectors and have been seen, since the arrival of commercial TV, as a support medium.

Best Practice

Making the most of magazines

In a world of media fragmentation, magazines present the most fragmented media option. Although there are general titles with huge, sometimes global, circulations, magazines above all present the opportunity for focus on specific target groups, and their interests and enthusiasms. Over the past 20 years, in most developed markets, the number of titles has grown rapidly (10), while total circulations have mostly also grown, though less rapidly. It is only in terms of their share of the media adspend market that magazines have largely failed to shine (17).

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