Ads In Gaming Zines

Stratadrake · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject:

I browsed through the current issue of PSM magazine at the store today.

I could swear, out of about 100 pages in the issue, fifty of them were ads!

Isn't that a bit extreme? I realize advertising raises some revenue for the magazine company, but I really did not like seeing an advertisement on every leaf.

Who else can relate? Pick a gaming magazine issue you've read and describe how much of it was magazine content, and how much was advertisements. Figures, I want to see figures. Flip through it and count the pages.
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ThaKakarot · Oldbie Joined: 18 Mar 2005 Posts: 2246

ahh.. this i can do

okay i just got a volume of "OXM" and it had 130 pages.. now let me count the ad pages

f**king 49 pages _

that may not be 50% but it's still way to much...

KeheiZero · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:58 am Post subject:

Grabbed an old issue of Gamesmaster. 119 pages, 28 of them were adverts. nOt as bad as some of the other ones, but still a bit much.
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Stratadrake · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:13 pm Post subject:

[i]Play[/i] magazine, September 2005 issue:

Total pages (including cover and inserts): 102
Total pages of ads (half-page or larger, plus inserts and back cover): 30

Though, out of the other 72 pages, about 50 of them were no interest to me, so that made the ads seem to stick out even more.
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Stratadrake · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:35 am Post subject:

[i]Tips & Tricks[/i], September 2005 issue (cover picture of FMA2)
- Total pages (including cover; there were no inserts): 102
- Total ad pages: 16

Sixteen! Woot.

[i]Electronic Gaming Monthly[/i], October 2005 (cover picture of FF7:AC)
- Total pages (including cover and inserts): 150
- Total ad pages: 72
Nearly half of the magazine devoted to ads? WTF?

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Kes · Forum Stalker Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 1549 Location: UK

True. No one wants to see a magazine with nearly 50% ad's.
I was in the store and was flicking through magazines, I can't remember the name of the magazine, this one had more than one ad advertising the same game. I think it was a like a Sonic one <_< I don't see why you need more than one ad in a magazine about one game.
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Stratadrake · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:38 am Post subject:

[i]Tips & Tricks[/i], October 2005 issue (cover showing the Incredible Hulk, Mario, and Darkwatch)
Total pages (including cover and one insert): 104
Total ad pages: 18

If you ignore the insert, that's the same ratio as the last issue... nice.
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infurno · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:00 pm Post subject:

All THose Ads Are Ridiculious, I pay 10 to get a Year of PSM. But I only get about 10 of PS2 News and 2 Mags worth of adds Adds
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Stratadrake · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:08 pm Post subject:

[i]Play[/i] magazine, November 2005 (...wtf? It isn't even October yet! WTF?

).
- Total pages (including cover and two inserts): 128
- Total ad pages (including inserts): 34

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Stratadrake · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:04 pm Post subject:

[i]PSM[/i] Magazine, November 2005 (...wtf? "Display until October 4"? it's still September! Grr!

) - cover picture of the PS3
Total pages (including cover and inserts): 114
Total ad pages (including inserts, and a 4-page article about King Kong which was really an advertisement in disguise): 60.

PSM joins EGM with the highest percentage of ads in its magazine... this time on the topside of 50% rather than the underside.
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