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Teen magazines are magazines aimed at teenage readers. They usually consisted of gossip, news, fashion tips and interviews and may include posters, stickers, small samples of cosmetics or other products and inserts.

History

In the United States, teen magazines were conceived of during the 1940s. In the United Kingdom, Fleetway's Honey (1960-1986) is regarded as having established the sector. Teen magazines are produced in many countries worldwide, and enjoy wide popularity in Australia, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Seventeen Magazine started publication in the US in 1944 and was the first magazine devoted to the needs and likes of adolescents.

While some teen magazines focus almost exclusively on music and film stars, others feature more extensive coverage of lifestyle issues and are virtually junior versions of magazines such as Cosmopolitan or Cleo.

In many countries, teen magazines are aimed almost exclusively at teenage girls. Teenage boys, like adult men, usually buy magazines related to specific activities that they are interested in, such as motor vehicles, sports, or music (the fact that many men's general interest magazines include pornography [see List of men's magazines] and are thus unlikely to be approved purchases for a teenage boy is also probably a major factor). However, Popcorn, the biggest title in Germany, aims to attract readers of both genders and is published in five other European countries [1].

Well-known American teen magazines include Tiger Beat, Teen People (folded), Teen Beat, Seventeen and YM (out of business). Large-scale Canadian teen magazines include Faze Magazine. Since 1972, teen magazines in the United States have reached out to the African-American market with publications such as Right On! (produced by Sterling-McFadden, which also produces Tiger Beat) and Word Up!.

Like other mainstream magazines, teen magazines can be found each month at supermarkets, pharmacies, stores and newsstands. In recent years, teen magazines have also appeared on the World Wide Web. Examples of these include Faze in Canada, which is published in both web and print versions.

On the web

In the UK, sales in the teen magazine sector peaked in 1998. Teenagers had many more attractions competing for their cash and their attention, such as media delivered on the web and through mobile phones. Also, the booming celebrity weeklies attracted more teens from ever-younger ages (driven by celebrity TV series). In response to this, in April 2007, National Magazines - publisher of Cosmopolitan and Cosmo Girl! - launched a digital weekly magazine for teens, Jellyfish, in a trial. This was the second attempt in the UK to establish a new online business model, the first being Monkey from Dennis, which aims to sell to men aged 18 to 34. In both cases, readers sign up to be sent the 'eMag' by email. Each issue features interactive elements and 'pages' that can be 'turned'. However, National Magazines closed Cosmo Girl! in June and the Jellyfish experiment was drawn to a close in August.

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poster is any large piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly textual.
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label is a piece of paper, polymer, cloth, metal, or other material affixed to a container or article, on which is printed a legend, information concerning the product, addresses, etc. A label may also be printed directly on the container or article.
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Cosmetics ( pronunciation: cosmetic   (help info ) ) are substances used to enhance or protect the appearance or odor of the human body.
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"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
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Fleetway, also known as Fleetway Publications and Fleetway Editions, was a publishing company, mainly producing comic magazines for the UK.

Fleetway began life as Amalgamated Press, the company owned by Alfred Harmsworth, who were based in Fleetway House.
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Latin America (Portuguese and Spanish: América Latina; French: Amérique Latine) is the region of the Americas where Romance languages, those derived from Latin (particularly Spanish and Portuguese), are primarily spoken.
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Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area (or 29.4% of its land area) and, with almost 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population.
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Cosmopolitan is a magazine for women, sometimes referred to as "Cosmo", which has been published for more than a century. It began as a family magazine, launched in 1886 by Schlicht & Field as The Cosmopolitan.
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CLEO is an Australian, New Zealand, Malaysian and Singaporean women's magazine.

Aimed at an older audience than the teenage-focused Dolly, the magazine is most famous for its CLEO Bachelor of the Year award.
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Tiger Beat is an American teen magazine. It is currently published by Laufer Media, Inc.
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People (full name People Weekly) is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human interest stories, published by Time Inc. As of 2006, it has a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion.
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Teen Beat is an American magazine that is geared towards teenaged readers. It is a "sister publication" of Vogue.

First published in 1975, the magazine was preceded by sister publications 16 magazine, published in 1956, and Tiger Beat
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Seventeen is an American magazine for teenage girls. It was first published in 1944 and is still in the forefront of newstand popularity among growing competition.

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As of January 2007, Ann Shoket is its new editor in chief.
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ym was an American teen magazine. It was published for 72 years and was the second-oldest girls' magazine (the oldest being Seventeen) in the United States.
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Faze means to frighten or cause hesitation. Faze may also refer to:
  • Faze (magazine), a Canadian magazine
  • Faze (musician), a Nigerian musician
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African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.[1] In the United States the term is generally used for Americans with sub-Saharan African ancestry.
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Right On! is an American teen magazine. It is published by Dorchester Media in New York City, and it was a sister publication of Tiger Beat.

The magazine was born in 1971, out of necessity to have a teen idol type of magazine for Black teens in the United
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World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, a user views web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigates between them using hyperlinks.
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Faze is a Canadian-based magazine written for teens and young adults. It is the largest teen magazine in Canada, and is also available in the United States.

Faze began publishing in 1999.
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Dennis Publishing Ltd. is one of the world’s leading independent publishers. Founded in 1974, the group consists of a number of operating companies in both the UK and USA, with a turnover exceeding £200 million a year.
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