Year-End Roundup: Mag Ads Up, But Well Off '07 Peak

After a brutal ad downturn, magazines finally turned a corner in 2010. But total ad pages are far off their pre–ad recession peak and the spending outlook is uncertain, tempering optimism for the medium.
 
Ad pages grew nearly 5 percent to 141,938 across the 168 titles tracked by the Mediaweek Monitor. But to give a sense of how deep the recession cut, that’s 30 percent below the pages generated in 2007, when the Monitor tracked 196 titles (many of which folded in the ad recession).
 
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