This day in age, magazines have turned into more than just reading and entertainment. They have become one of the most popular places to put an advertisement. Almost every page in a magazine has some type of advertisement even if its just on the sides of pages or across the top. Some advertisements fill up to an entire page or even two.
Depending on which type of magazine it is, all advertisements are different. If you are reading Cosmopolitan you would find more advertisements along the lines of beauty. perfume, fitness, make up, nail polish, anything that has to do with women and beauty. The same thing goes to mens magazines like Esquire for example. The advertisements track a certain audience depending on what they are reading. A health magazine for women wouldn't put in a fragrance for men advertising it that wouldn't be targeting the right audience.
I think advertisements now a days are turning into the whole magazine. They most definitely influence the content in a magazine and turn that magazine into a book of advertisements with some actual information to go with the magazine. There should be a limit for magazines and how many advertisements are allowed to go into them because it seems like it is a coupon book or something every time I look in one. I do enjoy reading magazines but they have turned more and more into advertisements than an actual magazine.
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