Just an FYI I thought was an interesting snapshot on the things we think are think are important enough to subscribe to magazine about.
Top 100 Magazines - Here are the 100 largest magazines based on circulation.
Wellll…there’s jokers in that deck. The AARP magazines are, I’m pretty certain, free circulation magazines that are advertising driven and, if considered ‘paid’ then it comes with a membership that a lot of people sign up for due to insurance and other reasons.
Most of the rest of the top ten have a VERY high newsstand circulation, particularly the women’s magazines. So there are a lot circulated that are never read and are either thrown out or returned and subsequently produce an amended circulation report.
National Geographic, however, is strongly subscription-based. Though the price is below cost of production and the magazine, as almost all do, makes its money through advertising. Those glossy full pages don’t come cheap, baby.
Gourmet folded last year.
Likewise all the AAA magazines - they send them out to all members.
The first one on the list I don’t know is #30, which seems to either be a religious or new-age thing. Altogether there are 10 that I’ve never at least heard of.
Yeah, a bunch of those are the kind that come with your membership. We get AAA Via and it promptly gets recycled.
Which ones have you never heard of? The top 20 are instantly recognizable to me, but then I browse through the magazine section at bookstores a lot. And I’m over 50, so I get those frickin’ AARP mags whether I want them or not.
Hey, where’s Big Black Asses?! And Modern Bride?! :mad:
Am I the only one who subscribes to Bodilicious Boobies?
And why it Time still wasting trees? Haven’t they heard about the Internet?
game informer magazine
taste of home
guideposts
real simple
I was stunned that Boy’s Life outcirculates Motor Trend. I’ve never heard of anyone getting Boy’s Life before in my life.
ETA: oh, its the official magazine of the Boy Scouts. That explains it.
Modern Bride is dead as a doornail, my friend.
I love it when I get questions about my job! Game Informer is a membership magazine, and the membership gets you better trade-in values at Gamestop. Guideposts is for your religious aunt. Your mom reads Real Simple and Taste of Home. I’m assuming you are a guy, astro, who is not religious and does not play video games.
ETA - in other words, yes, there are ringers in the magazine world. We get everything on that list at the liberry except for Maxim. (In fact, we get everything on that list plus 1,400 publications. We get magazines that nobody gets. We get magazines that only theoretical, fictional people get. We can tell, because they never get around to sending them to us.)
Whither Mental Floss?
I’ve been hearing for years that Maxim has been kicking Playboy’s ass in every measure that matters. Looks like Playboy still has a slight edge in circulation, if not advertising dollars…
In the top 50, I’ve never heard of these:
GAME INFORMER MAGAZINE
TASTE OF HOME
SOUTHERN LIVING
GUIDEPOSTS
REAL SIMPLE
REMEDY MD
FAMILY FUN
COOKING LIGHT
ENDLESS VACATION
IN STYLE
EVERYDAY WITH RACHAEL RAY
My god, you’re one lucky SOB!
Reader’s Digest makes excellent toilet reading.
I’ve heard OF Rachel Ray, but not that she had a mag. Which is a couple of steps down from Oprah – I heard of her, and I’ve heard of her magazine, but I’ve never seen anthing inside the covers. which I occasionally see on racks by the checkout line.
I work for the company that publishes like a quarter of those. And my job has absolutely nothing to do with magazines.
So what’s in your dentist’s waiting room?
We used to get Guideposts when I was a kid–I think one of my aunts bought us a subscription. It was somewhat like Reader’s Digest but with a more religious fundamentalist slant. It contained a lot of important moral lessons which no one in my family followed.
My college roomate and I joked that we’d start a spoof magazine called “Guardrails” which would be subtitled “For when you hit the skids.”