Magazines Sites Show Increasing Profitability

Well, the sample was only 71 magazine websites, so take it as it is. According to the International Federation of the Periodical Press, a little more than half of consumer magazines said their sites are profitable, up from about a quarter two years ago. Another 17 percent said they were losing money, down from 38 percent in 2003.

About two-thirds of revenues came from display advertising…The rest was from sponsorship, e-commerce, subscriptions and syndication.

The 27-page full PDF report can be downloaded from here: For the successful websites, almost half of their revenue (45%) now comes from earnings on the web. Internal funds account for half of the funding, evenly divided between funds from the
relevant magazines (25%) and funds provided centrally (25%).

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