Friday, March 1, 2013

Another Impact of Mobile Phones: Impulse Magazine Buys

Magazine circulation dropped 9.5 percent in the U.S. last year, according to the Alliance for Audited Media (formerly ABC), and much of the reason for that can be blamed on mobile phones. 
When people stand in line at the supermarket checkout, they're so engrossed in their phones that they no longer look at the impulse-buy rack — the favored home of the National Enquirer, Cosmopolitan, Vogue and Vanity Fair — according to WARC, the market research group.