Magazine A-List 2010

The Magazine A-List Opens the American Magazine Conference

The Magazine A-List Opens the American Magazine Conference

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Advertising Age presented its annual Magazine A-List honors on opening night at the 2010 American Magazine Conference.

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People StyleWatch Is Ad Age's Magazine of the Year

People StyleWatch Is Ad Age's Magazine of the Year

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Lots of fashion magazines cover high and low, but few are as relentlessly real about fashion as the sunny People StyleWatch, a magazine that makes cover stars out of boots, tops, bracelets and bags under $100. And none are adding readers and advertisers as rapidly.

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The Atlantic Is No. 2 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

The Atlantic Is No. 2 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The Atlantic publishing team takes one of the world's most storied print brands and builds an ultramodern, multiplatform juggernaut, extending its influence while discovering the joys of (gasp) profit.

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All You Is No. 3 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

All You Is No. 3 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Some magazines win their way onto the A-List with a novel strategy or an admirable comeback story. Others, like All You, just barge in.

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Cooking Light Is No. 4 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

Cooking Light Is No. 4 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Magazines may not be recession-proof, but food is -- and for print editions that can harness the necessity of good cooking that's time- and calorie-efficient, that may be enough. Case in point: Take Cooking Light.

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Food Network Magazine Is No. 5 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

Food Network Magazine Is No. 5 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Last October, even as Gourmet became another victim of the ad downturn pummeling almost everyone in all media, the people behind Food Network Magazine actually had reason to celebrate: The risky venture they had begun the year before was reaching conspicuous fruition.

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Parenting Is No. 6 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

Parenting Is No. 6 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- In February 2009, Bonnier Corp.'s Parenting introduced a "versioning strategy," in which it split itself into two editions, Parenting Early Years and Parenting School Years. The bifurcated-title concept picked up momentum toward the end of 2009 and paid off in the issues from January through September of this year.

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Harper's Bazaar Is No. 7 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

Harper's Bazaar Is No. 7 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- To understand why Harper's Bazaar has become the go-to title for fashionistas both playful and self-serious, one need only examine a partial list of the events, brands, organizations and personalities with which it associated during the past 12 months.

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Elle Decor Is No. 8 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

Elle Decor Is No. 8 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Given the events of the last year, you'd think that the folks at Elle Decor would be telling a different story nowadays.

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Vice Is No. 9 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

Vice Is No. 9 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- It'd be easy to dismiss Vice as a cultish niche title. But a growing number of major players -- including CNN -- are recognizing that the ultimate glossy outsider has quietly spawned a global media empire while becoming an unlikely journalistic powerhouse.

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Wired Is No. 10 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

Wired Is No. 10 on Ad Age's Magazine A-List

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Some of you are reading Wired's accolades here on Ad Age's iPhone app, while more of you are reading it in print and an even larger crowd of you are reading this on the web. It's just another suggestion that the web isn't dead, contrary to Wired's September cover story proclaiming, well, "The Web Is Dead."

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