The official semi-annual magazine circulation report won’t be out until next month, but with the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ new Rapid Report system, this year we’ll get an early look at how top monthly titles sold in the first half, reports Jeff Bercovici at Portfolio.
Oprah and Vogue both saw BIG declines.
“When you find someone who makes you fell all the butterflies in your stomach, you’ll still act goofy and silly because you feel so great. And you can’t get him off your mind. I’ve always love that feeling.”
“I wouldn’t deal with a guy who didn’t know how to make me feel really loved.
If you’re not totally head-over-heels adoring and loving me at every moment, I’m not even into you. I need that.
I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
Like whether you’re a thousand miles away or right there, you need to make the person feel special, and you have to feel special too.”
“I think if you want to get with a guy and go out and do something fun, it’s cool to say,
“Do you want to go with me?”
“I don’t think the guy has to be the one who asks a girl out - but I think that if a guy initiates it, it shows that he’s serious about you,” says Alicia Keys in Seventeen’s July issue.
When asked “Have you ever felt bad about the way you look?” Taylor Swift said,
“Everybody does!
Everybody looks in the mirror and is like, I wonder why her eyes are huge and mine are smaller.
But I realized that if you’re lucky enough to be different from everybody else, don’t change.”
Just Don’t Ask Seventeen Magazine How They’re Doing on YouTube!
While dozens of magazines have partnered with YouTube to create brand channels, the $1.6 billion video-sharing site announced at the MPA 24/7 conference that it wants more, according to Folio.
But a partnership with YouTube doesn’t guarantee immediate success. Seventeen magazine’s recently launched channel has secured ONLY 373 subscribers. Ouch!
Hearst Magazines announced today three YouTube Channels for Good Housekeeping, Seventeen and Marie Claire, and will add 12 more in the near future, according to Mediaweek’s Lucia Moses. The channels will ask users to provide videos and participate in contests. Ultimately, the publisher hopes to drive traffic to its magazine’s web sites and share ad revenue with YouTube.
