Fashion Magazines See Little Newsstand Love in March

In January, when most of the major fashion and beauty titles reported ad page increases for their key March issues, the industry was looking forward to a sunny spring. Unfortunately, everything isn’t coming up roses. March newsstand sales aren’t matching up to the magazines’ strong ad numbers, with many big titles declining more than 20 percent versus a year earlier, according to publisher-reported numbers in the Audit Bureau of Circulations' Rapid Report.