The Business of Magazines

[mb7b64]

I'm already waiting for the next Vogue magazine, I've heard it would be quite interesting to read

 

[Benn98]

Hang on, how did I miss the Edwina McCann update!! Sad, especially considering that Christine is taking over. Seems all the Vogues are now going for style over substance but at least

Apparently Nicole Kidman was at Christine's announcement party in Bondi who I'm guessing will cover the first issue (March)

 

[DK92]

Vogue France Sales for 2022

December/January - Isabelle Huppert: 97.853
February - Mika Schneider, Lola Nicon and Malika Louback: 77.669
March - Laetitia Casta: 83.952
April - Akon Changkou: 77.939
May - Hailey Bieber: 81.689
June/July - Raquel Zimmermann: 107.538

Source: ACPM

 

[Bertrando3]

Vogue France Sales for 2022

December/January - Isabelle Huppert: 97.853
February - Mika Schneider, Lola Nicon and Malika Louback: 77.669
March - Laetitia Casta: 83.952
April - Akon Changkou: 77.939
May - Hailey Bieber: 81.689
June/July - Raquel Zimmermann: 107.538

Source: ACPM

No surprise : Raquel sells !!!! Although funny enough it's one of her worst covers I feel ahah. I didn't like this image at all.

 

[DK92]

No surprise : Raquel sells !!!! Although funny enough it's one of her worst covers I feel ahah. I didn't like this image at all.

I don't think it's Raquel, June/July was always the month when sales were high, just as November always has low sales... Raquel's first cover was a fiasco!

 

[caioherrero]

Vogue France Sales for 2022

December/January - Isabelle Huppert: 97.853
February - Mika Schneider, Lola Nicon and Malika Louback: 77.669
March - Laetitia Casta: 83.952
April - Akon Changkou: 77.939
May - Hailey Bieber: 81.689
June/July - Raquel Zimmermann: 107.538

Source: ACPM

sales remain the same as the last years of Alt. So, it's sad to know that Condé Nast was right, because they are saving money and sales have not dropped.

 

[JPineapple]

sales remain the same as the last years of Alt. So, it's sad to know that Condé Nast was right, because they are saving money and sales have not dropped.

Unfortunatelly, magazine enthusiastics and collectors like us are a minority in the readers so, CN doesn’t care about our complains

 

[Deleted member 141523]

Combinated issues sold more because those had more time out and also dropped during summer vacation and holidays, when you have more free time to read and spent money like there's no tomorrow. I don't think that VF sold more with Isabelle and Raquel because of them. Their issues came at the right time.

 

[vogue28]

Condé Nast UK is moving out of Vogue House in London, after more than six decades. More on the move over on The Financial Times.

 

[crmsn]

 

[tigerrouge]

Starting to read through the new issue of Vanity Fair, I noted the picture of the editor was in the form of an illustration rather than a photo... seems their long-time cartoonist has been let go and that was his last work for VF. It's mentioned in the editor's letter that there's been a parting of the ways, but it seems it's not so mutual (pagesix.com) :

Longtime Vanity Fair caricature artist Robert Risko out at mag

January 15, 2023

Robert Risko's contract has not not renewed at Vanity Fair after 40 years with the magazine.

Longtime Vanity Fair caricature artist Robert Risko’s career at the mag has drawn to a close, Page Six has learned.
The legendary artist has worked at the magazine since its relaunch in 1983, and his beloved illustrations appeared on its final page each month with the famed Proust Questionnaire.
But we hear Risko was personally given the news that his contract would not be renewed by editor-in-chief Radhika Jones. Sources say it was about money.
Illustrator Ryan McAmis will take over his duties on the back page, we’re told.
“It is a little sad leaving. We worked so hard,” Risko, 66, who worked under Tina Brown and Graydon Carter previously, tells Page Six. “When Radhika came over [in Dec. 2017], I was happy and looking forward to it. I am all for a diverse representation of America and she is a part of doing that. I thought [it would mean that I would] get to draw more interesting people.”
Risko says he thinks Jones is still figuring out her formula, just like her predecessors, and is on her way to reaching a new high point for the magazine.
“I guess the decision was just to not have me be a part of that,” he says. “That I feel sad about. I am a problem-solver by nature and I think that I could have helped in creating a new Vanity Fair [that would]… come up with something that is even more interesting in a new era.”
The 40-year veteran of the mag continued of his time there: “I have given so much to it, it’s kind of like my child. With my artwork too, these are my children, this is what I put my love into, I pour my heart into. Where is the heart of Vanity Fair now that I am gone?”
We’re told Risko’s name will still appear on the masthead and that he isn’t entirely leaving: his work will still occasionally appear in features.
The artist, who started his career in Andy Warhol’s Factory and worked for the art icon’s Interview Magazine, as well as Rolling Stone and the New Yorker, has some new projects on the horizon.
He tells us he’ll be working with a UK-based gallery called Iconic Images, which will deal with his archival works as well as new pieces. He also has an ongoing work relationship with Bravo head Andy Cohen, for whom he has created book covers, and he tells us he is considering getting into animation.
He also runs a popular Instagram page.
But he tells us, “I don’t know if people want to see caricatures. I don’t know if they want to see personality. My job was to capture someone’s aura.” He noted that people now seem happy with emojis. “A computer can maybe do facial recognition, but there are abstractions in life and feeling that the computer just isn’t going to get.”
Risko is also still interested in working with media outlets.
“I did have 40 years; that is pretty good,” he says. “I was able to surf that wave of all those changes.” He added, “I would like to work ’til I drop like [famous caricature artist] Al Hirschfeld. I am still good and I have a lot of experience. I could offer a lot.”
We’re told Jones’ February editorial letter will include an image drawn by Risko along with a goodbye.
“Every month, we at the magazine have the immense pleasure of seeing an actor, a singer, a writer, an athlete, or an all-around sage interpreted through [Risko’s] eyes, from the first sketch through to the finished product,” Jones says. “With gratitude and affection, we thank him for his service… Given that our plan is to enlist him for other features, we trust you’ll keep seeing his signature strokes in Vanity Fair.”

 

[liberty33r1b]

Vogue France Sales for 2022

December/January - Isabelle Huppert: 97.853
February - Mika Schneider, Lola Nicon and Malika Louback: 77.669
March - Laetitia Casta: 83.952
April - Akon Changkou: 77.939
May - Hailey Bieber: 81.689
June/July - Raquel Zimmermann: 107.538

Source: ACPM

here are previous year numbers from this thread to compare:

Vogue Paris Sales for 2021

December/January - Léa Seydoux: 85.038
February - Anna Ewers: 83.136
March - Quinn Mora: 81.601
April - Nora Attal: 88.063
May - Hailey Bieber: 85.726
June/July - Imaan Hammam: 101.270
August - Mica Argañaraz: 110.790
September - Tindi Mar: 93.425
October - 100 Ans [Emanuelle Alt's Last Cover]: 129.229
November - Aya Nakamura: 84.995
December/January - Isabelle Huppert: 87.027

never below 80.000, so they are definitely selling less now than before…

 

[vogue28]

Sat here unable to comprehend how Raquel Zimmermann's cover from 2022 outsold that STUNNER of an Imaan Hammam cover from 2021... even just by a smidgen.

 

[Benn98]

Starting to read through the new issue of Vanity Fair, I noted the picture of the editor was in the form of an illustration rather than a photo... seems their long-time cartoonist has been let go and that was his last work for VF. It's mentioned in the editor's letter that there's been a parting of the ways, but it seems it's not so mutual (pagesix.com) :

This is sad, the artist sounds very invested in VF. I read the letter a few days ago. She made it sound like it was a mutual decision in the letter, even assuring readers he'll be working for another title. Reading between the lines just further confirms what we've been saying all along.

 

[vogue28]

We've not heard much about the release of French Harper's Bazaar, besides the appointment of Oliver Lalanne as editor. No other staff have been announced and I'm sat here holding out for some involvement from Emmanuelle Alt. I believe the first issue is March 2023.

 

[VBE]

We've not heard much about the release of French Harper's Bazaar, besides the appointment of Oliver Lalanne as editor. No other staff have been announced and I'm sat here holding out for some involvement from Emmanuelle Alt. I believe the first issue is March 2023.

Another relaunch? What happened to the original French Harper’s Bazaar?

 

[Xone]

Anyone knows when Italian bazaar will publish their next issue? its a bimestral publication so february should be the next issue....wondering if they are gonna wait until march....

 

[vogue28]

Could be reading too much into this, but are we about to see something major at British Vogue? Vanessa Kingori, chief business officer at Vogue and Condé Nast Britain stating a "magic upgrade downloading" via Edward Enninful's latest IG post.

This may just be with the change in offices or... going digital?

 

[tigerrouge]

Something needs to happen with British Vogue. Five years years on, what was once new is now itself becoming stale. It happens to the best.

They took Shulman's Vogue and shook it up, now it's time to shake up their own formula. Will the March cover be a Meisel story? Will it be a former supermodel or someone related to one? Will it be 'a first' of some kind? Place your bets now.

I'm looking forward to the March issue, but I'd like to be surprised.

 

[Kerg]

Harper's Bazaar France out February 23
Harper's Bazaar France - Prismashop