[crummy]

I think people buy Vogue (and all other advertising-sodden media) despite the ads, not because of it.

[Kiro]

You definitely want to see the ads. It's like a catalogue.

[zimpenfish]

It would be an interesting experiment to put out a non-ad-subsidised version of Vogue and see how many people bought it. I would guess at "not that many".

[LeoNatan25]

If it’s “900” pages of pure content, rather than ads, hell, even I’d buy it.

[Kiro]

You're probably in minority though. It's like a catalogue. The "pure content" is just fluff.

[utexaspunk]

Even if that "content" is boilerplate drivel like "25 Ways to Drive Him Wild in Bed!"?

[MrMid]

Wouldn't that be called a "book"?

[zimpenfish]

It's 900 pages of pure content ... but costs $95.

[elkos]

It is my understanding that a similar publication nowadays, Cosmopolitan, used to be mostly a literary publication in it's early days. I wonder how the contents vs advertising ratio was balanced at the time.