Wednesday, April 11, 2007

TeenPeople folds

A new development for People has occured. TeenPeople is folding and being combined with People. When logging onto TeenPeople online, you will be automatically directed to the People website.
It has been reviewd that most teen-related stories sell with older audiences. It is a waste to have two separate websites and magazines. They do just as well in sales when being combined. The site had 435,000 unique visitors in March 2006, but a year later, it didn't meet minimum sample size standards needed to reliably project audience size, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
Today, it seems as though the generation above us keeps up on our generation, and younger, just as much as thier own, if not more. Media is media. That's all there is to it. It either sells or it doesn't. A 27-year-old actress can play a teenager in a seriese and it is acceptable. No questions asked. So who are we to separate young and old? They make the same money, they work the same business, they all sit in the same seats at the Grammy's.