Overview of the magazine industry

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Overview of the magazine industry

Source 1:

- Magazines cam in the early 20th century- housekeeping and national geographic

- Evolution of magazines started and more and more genres of magazines were being made

- In source one we can also see that the overall impression is that newspapers have suffered from
  decline due to the rise of the Internet and magazines

Source 2:

·      72% of adults 15+ consume magazine brands, digital or printed


  

Source 3:

·      Consumers spend £1.8 billion on magazines at retail or via subscriptions
·      Print magazine advertising totals a further £750 million
·      Content marketing agencies (the producers of customer magazines) contribute a further £1 billion
·      There are in excess of 2,400 consumer magazines 

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