The Mens Magazine Market In Toronto
November 11th, 2010 by Adriana Noton, under Travel and Leisure. No Comments
What a great invention is the magazine. Magazines can take a field of interest and cover it in words and pictures without the distraction of motion and sound. In Canada, the Canadian magazine industry us centered in Toronto, ON. Many magazine publishers have found that the Greater Toronto Area, home to over five and half million people, can support a monthly. The Toronto mens magazine field is well served and extremely competitive. There are magazines for every taste and interest.
Do you like magazines? If so, when visiting Toronto take the time to explore the Toronto section of the magazine isle at any good news stand or book store. Here you will find a mens magazine or three that are top notch. Though naked women are not the specialty of any of them, snappy writing, good fashion coverage and odd-ball articles certainly are.
Magazines are portable. It is one thing to bury yourself in your smart phone when you are lucky enough to get a seat on the morning commuter train. In Toronto, the commuter train is called the GO train. It runs from Oshawa, 60 kilometers east of TO, to Oakville, about the same distance east of the city. There is something about pulling a travel magazine out of your briefcase and reading up on Caribbean vacation destinations that is so much more in keeping with a vacation mood than looking for the same material on your laptop.
A travel magazine article is written by someone who has at least been to the area they are writing about. The facts in the article have, presumably been checked. A travel article on a website, on the other hand, does not typically go through much if any vetting.
The most widely purchased genre of magazines are celebrity gossip rags. Second place goes to those targeting women’s fashion and beauty. These magazines are usually primarily ads. In fact, it is for the ads that they are often bought. Travel magazines feature in-depth, in-person reports and are invaluable for those who use their vacations to travel.
The path of the mens magazine was forever altered in 1960. That is the year that a British court ruled, in an obscenity case concerning Lady Chatterly’s Lover, a 1928 novel by D. H. Lawrence, that people have a right to read and view obscene material. Two hundred thousand copies of the book were sold over the next week and three million were sold over the next two years. Today, mens magazines that prominently feature nude women are considered generally acceptable.
For a sports fanatic, a sports magazine is not just a way to connect to his favorite team. A sports magazine can connect a reader to a sport as a whole. The well written backstory can connect readers to performers in sports that the reader is not normally a fan of.
Canada’s largest single market is the Greater Toronto Area. It has a thriving local Sports Magazine industry that is one mens magazine short of demand. Toronto is also the nations capital for all other English language magazines, not just local ones.
Canadian Travel Magazine offering articles on fashion, lifestyle, fitness, and other related topics.
