It feels like magazines were the creative equivalent of newspapers. They still had valuable insights but added an aesthetic look and feel.
Now, with social media, this has become irrelevant. Social media is everything everywhere, all at once. It's both news articles and Instagram accounts of aesthetic content with valuable insights.
I hope magazines will never disappear because, as you say, there is some nostalgia behind them.
Nevertheless, for brands, investing in social media ads might be more valuable (data-wise), making it harder for magazines to make a lot of money.
Will some magazines die? Yes, probably. Will the medium completely disappear? I don't think so (but I'm unsure whether this is hopium).
It feels tough for print magazines to compete with the minute-by-minute relevancy of the digital world. However, I think that as people get fatigued from the doom scroll print has an opportunity to feel more like a sanctuary and creative space, with editorial and long form content.
i don’t know when it happened, but i went from loving magazines to associating them with the word “scammy”. subscriptions feel overwhelming and overpriced now, and more than half of magazines are filled with ads. i want to like them, but i feel as if there’s little left to enjoy.
I like them. I am finding that having the real thing with you is easier to read and keep up with. Example, I love the New Yorker magazine. In hard copy it was easier to keep up with, now having a digital subscription i am finding it harder to keep up with. It changes very quickly. I hope there are coming back. I miss them, some anyway.
It feels like magazines were the creative equivalent of newspapers. They still had valuable insights but added an aesthetic look and feel.
Now, with social media, this has become irrelevant. Social media is everything everywhere, all at once. It's both news articles and Instagram accounts of aesthetic content with valuable insights.
I hope magazines will never disappear because, as you say, there is some nostalgia behind them.
Nevertheless, for brands, investing in social media ads might be more valuable (data-wise), making it harder for magazines to make a lot of money.
Will some magazines die? Yes, probably. Will the medium completely disappear? I don't think so (but I'm unsure whether this is hopium).
It feels tough for print magazines to compete with the minute-by-minute relevancy of the digital world. However, I think that as people get fatigued from the doom scroll print has an opportunity to feel more like a sanctuary and creative space, with editorial and long form content.
i don’t know when it happened, but i went from loving magazines to associating them with the word “scammy”. subscriptions feel overwhelming and overpriced now, and more than half of magazines are filled with ads. i want to like them, but i feel as if there’s little left to enjoy.
I like them. I am finding that having the real thing with you is easier to read and keep up with. Example, I love the New Yorker magazine. In hard copy it was easier to keep up with, now having a digital subscription i am finding it harder to keep up with. It changes very quickly. I hope there are coming back. I miss them, some anyway.
I loove magazines, but the fact that more than 40% of them are advertisements sets me off.
But still, I would rather buy a magazine than spend on their online versions. There’s definitely SOMETHING about them.