People (magazine)

People
Photograph of the TV series, "Friends" cast.
Friends 25th-anniversary special edition, September 2019
EditorWendy Naugle[1]
CategoriesCelebrity
Human interest
Royals
Crime
Fashion & Lifestyle
Total circulation
(2018)
3,425,166[2]
First issueMarch 4, 1974 (1974-03-04)
CompanyDotdash Meredith
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Websitepeople.com Edit this at Wikidata
ISSN0093-7673
OCLC794712888

People is an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news and human-interest stories. It is published by Dotdash Meredith, a subsidiary of IAC.[3] With a readership of 46.6 million adults in 2009, People had the largest audience of any American magazine, but it fell to second place in 2018 after its readership significantly declined to 35.9 million.[4][5] People had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine.[6] In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion.[7] It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation, and advertising.[8] People ranked number 6 on Advertising Age's annual "A-list" and number 3 on Adweek's "Brand Blazers" list in October 2006.

People's website, People.com, focuses on celebrity and crime news, royal updates, fashion and lifestyle recommendations and human interest stories.[8]

People is perhaps best known for its yearly special issues naming the "World's Most Beautiful", "Best & Worst Dressed", and "Sexiest Man Alive". The magazine's headquarters are in New York City, and it maintains editorial bureaus in Los Angeles and in London. In 2006, for financial reasons, it closed bureaus in Austin, Miami, and Chicago.[7][8]

  1. ^ "Wendy Naugle Appointed Editor-in-Chief of PEOPLE". PR Newswire (Press release). September 1, 2022. Archived from the original on October 20, 2022. Retrieved October 20, 2022.
  2. ^ "Consumer Magazines". Alliance for Audited Media. Archived from the original on February 27, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  3. ^ Jerde, Sara (June 12, 2018). "Here's What Meredith Is Doing With Some of the Time Inc. Titles It Inherited". Adweek. Archived from the original on October 28, 2022. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  4. ^ Johnston-Greene, Chandra (May 18, 2009). "AARP Shows Largest Growth in Readership". Folio Magazine. Archived from the original on July 29, 2016. Retrieved September 9, 2012.
  5. ^ "AARP Widens Its Lead as America's Most-Read Magazine". Folio. June 21, 2018. Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
  6. ^ Flamm, Matthew (January 10, 2012). "Magazines eke out gains in 2011". Crain's New York Business. Archived from the original on October 28, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2012.
  7. ^ a b Goldsmith, Jill (July 9, 2006). "People who need People". Variety. Archived from the original on October 28, 2022. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
  8. ^ a b c Martha Nelson Named Editor, The People Group Archived January 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, a January 2006 Time Warner press release.

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