NYT Magazine's Planet Hillary Cover Fails to Deliver Traffic Bonanza

Online attention gets a boost, but only just

It’s become a common ploy by magazines to release cover images and articles online before they appear in print in hopes of getting them to go viral and generate needed attention for increasingly less relevant print publications. The New Yorker, Businessweek and New York magazine have done it, to great effect. 

 

Then there was The New York Times Magazine's oddball and somewhat disturbing Hillary Clinton cover, which gave rise to some very strong Twitter reaction.

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