Luxury Travel & Lifestyle Trends

Like the U.S. economy in general, magazine has been slow to pick up steam. With this in mind, brands /magazines are looking for new partnerships as a means to drive new revenue streams and create new user experience for their consumers/readers.

The traditional media pyramid has been shifting for years now. And as a result of social media, the historical model has been turned upside down and now the masses are dictating the news. (Historically, media – or news – has been designed, developed and pushed from a few at the top to the masses at the bottom.) History is being made before our eyes…..

I’ve recently been discussing in online forums a trend that many have been observing in journalism: Recently, there has been a proliferation of so-called “content providers” that carry no real writing credentials, and in many cases, produce articles that don’t even carry a byline. This is an especially big issue in critical journalism, notably, covering luxury products and services where special expertise and connoisseurship are required.