Commercialized!
In school we learn about how to make good advertising and the importance of marketing and promoting a brand in the market place etc. But when browsing through magazines such as Vogue, Elle and Lucky you will get shocked by the huge amount of advertising they put into their paper. This is a joke and I can't help of wonder: Is the advertising there for the reader or for the sake of the magazine's survival? Practically, half of these magazines are based on advertising. Turning page after page looking for articles, reports and columns you will easily get disappointed. Where is the real writing? Writing I am actually interested in reading such as life stories and novels. I'm not going to be the number-one-smartest and deepest person here, because I actually bought Vogue and Glamour the other day. I even cut out some pictures, planning to put them on my notice-board in my room. But the real intention behind me buying Glamour for example, was to get some inspiration and writing ideas. Many people do, however, read the magazine because they want to put their mind off and just think about nothing for a while which is totally okay. I just think magazines should consider bringing in a little bit more writing and less commercial! What do you think?
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Postat av: Sam Barber
Hi Charlotte its Sam!
Kudos on the blogg, its really cool and interesting. Quite hard to use and navigate however because the buttons and stuff are in swedish haha.
Anyways i think your right about the amount of advetisements in magazines, and its not just for womens magazines, mens mags such as FHM are loaded with adverts, especially fragrance ones. Its very annoying, and I reckon that they do just do it to make money, with no consideration for the readers. This is is all because they can afford to put as many ads in as possible as they are not damaging there readership. People will still buy them despite them being 50% ads.
Anywho keep it up!
Sam x
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