Are magazine sales better with covers of celebrities or models?

[kissmesweet]

I need some opinions and points to make for my Textiles project dued next month. It would really help me out if you guys share your opinions.Thanks. I also thought that the idea for the thread would be a good idea!

Vogue covers with celebrities

Vogue covers with models:


Thanks in advance.

 

[glósóli]

I would have guessed celebrities (judging on Vogue US covers)... unless it's someone like Kate Moss of course.

 

[sportsxfever]

^^ Kate Moss basically is a celebrity.

celebrity covers do sell better although I like fashion covers sell better. It's the fact. face it.

most people buy magazines when they see a celebrity they like. It's what attracts people to the magazines. the majority of women like to see celebrities they know and watch on TV or movies or something, instead of models. models are usually jsut known to fashion lovers like us and not the rest. its terrible really but that's the way it is.

model covers are so much classier though.

but ive read somewhere that the issue with models had one of the highest sales in the ten years though...

 

[tigerrouge]

I imagine celebrity covers sell better than model covers, simply because the general buying audience is more familiar with celebrities, and are attracted both by the picture and by the coverlines that promise to reveal something about their private life.

Magazines with a smaller circulation, with a more discerning audience, are free to experiment more, as their readers are eager to get to know the newest faces and style, no matter if they're a little extreme.

Everyone at this forum falls into this second category of reader, but we all have friends who give magazines little or no attention, buying them on impulse, flicking through them, and then throwing them in the bin. And that's what most magazines represent to most people - even if they're little pieces of art to us.

 

[TheGlassAngel]

^ That is deserving of karma, especially

even if they're little pieces of art to us

because they really are.

 

[seahorseinstripe]

i don't know, but i tend to buy the one with models. they look like a real magazine covers, not tabloids...

 

[Trista]

I'm part of the second group, I buy more magazines with models on them, although I like magazines like Z!nk that if they feature a celeb, it's a quirkier celeb and not your Aniston/Jolie/Barrymore/etc. type.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

As much as i despise seeing them on covers of fashion magazines it is true that Celebrities sell more copies,yup every single time.
My friend works for the company wich distributes magazines and she told me that even Paris Hilton on the cover of Paris Vogue sells more issues than Hilary Rhoda gracing the same cover.

I refuse to understand that but it is the way it is,it shows how celeb obsessed todays society truly is.

 

[Madhuri]

I'm curious to know for all the major magazines how their 12 covers ranked in sales for each year based on who was on the cover? Is their any place where such statistics are available or is it private information kept by the magazine?

 

[BerrySweet]

Celebs sell more, but their covers suck.

 

[kissmesweet]

Wow, thanks for all of your thoughts and opinions, especially tigerrouge's post. Thank you so much, guys. Some karma and the rest later, when I spread my reputation.