According to Nat Ives at Ad Age, People.com topped one billion page views last month, better last January 2010’s tally by 211 million.
Ives says it’s “an occasion to pop some champagne. That’s particularly true because magazines on the whole have struggled to make the most of the internet even as a deluge of new websites competed for magazines’ readers and advertisers.”
People is also the No. 2 newsstand seller in the country, second only to Cosmopolitan. Which leads me to ask, what’s the secret to People’s success? Celebrities, gossip and photo heavy layouts. If you want “eyeballs” that’s what works.