¡Hola!
{{Short description|Spanish-language weekly magazine}}
{{hatnote|This article is about the Spanish-language magazine. For the greeting "¡Hola!" in English, see Hello. For the company, see Hola (VPN)}}
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{{Infobox Magazine
| title = {{lang|es|¡Hola!}}
| logo = Revista ¡Hola! logo.svg
| image_file = ¡Hola! (magazine) cover.jpg
| image_size =
| image_caption =
| caption = Front page on 17 December 2008
| publisher = Eduardo Sánchez Junco
| editor =
| frequency = Weekly
| category = Celebrity
| company = ¡HOLA!
| firstdate = {{start date and age|1944|9|2|df=yes}}
| country = Spain
| based = Madrid
| language = Spanish, English, Portuguese, Turkish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Greek, Serbian
| website = {{URL|hola.com}}
| issn = 0214-3895
| circulation = 401,591{{Cite web|url=https://blog.auditedmedia.com/newsviews|title=News & Views | AAM|website=blog.auditedmedia.com}}|circulation_year=2017}}
¡Hola! is a weekly Spanish-language magazine specializing in celebrity news, published in Madrid, Spain, and in 15 other countries, with local editions in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Greece, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela. It is the second most popular magazine in Spain after Pronto.{{cite book|author=Alan Albarran|title=Handbook of Spanish Language Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4uOPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA20|accessdate=29 October 2014|date=10 September 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-85430-0|page=25}} The title means "Hello!" in English and it is the parent magazine of the British magazine Hello!, Hello! Canada and Hola! USA.{{cite news|last1=Craig|first1=Sean|title=Rogers makes major retreat from print media, taking four titles online, shopping others|url=https://business.financialpost.com/news/rogers-communications-to-stop-printing-four-magazines-as-of-january|website=Financial Post|accessdate=23 December 2016|date=30 September 2016}}
History and profile
¡Hola! was founded in Barcelona on 2 September 1944{{cite journal|author1=Manuela Bueno|author2=María Luisa Cárdenas|author3=Lola Esquivias|title=The Rise of the Gossip Press in Spain|journal=Journalism Studies|date=2007|volume=8|issue=4|pages=621–633|doi=10.1080/14616700701412100|s2cid=146514743}}{{cite book|author=Anny Brooksbank Jones|title=Women in Contemporary Spain|url=https://archive.org/details/womenincontempor0000broo|url-access=registration|accessdate=31 March 2015|year=1997|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-4757-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/womenincontempor0000broo/page/125 125]}} by Antonio Sánchez Gómez, who continued to run the magazine until his death in the 1970s. He employed mainly relatives and to this day ¡Hola! remains a predominantly family run organisation, with Sánchez's wife still stepping in to provide layout for important royal wedding spreads. Later the headquarters of the magazine moved to Madrid.{{cite book|title=The Europa World Year: Kazakhstan – Zimbabwe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C&pg=PA3908|accessdate=3 May 2015|year=2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-85743-255-8|page=3906}}
Initially designed as a family magazine, Sánchez soon realized the potential for profit in the women's industry and initially focused on the doings of royalty, as well as offering a self-help section. Then the magazine became a gossip magazine, although the Spanish version still relies heavily on royalty for their gossip, whilst the English and Latin American versions focus more on Hollywood. The former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González gave his first interview to the magazine when he was in office.{{cite book|author1=Daniel C. Hallin|author2=Paolo Mancini|title=Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=954NJChZAGoC&pg=PA96|accessdate=14 April 2015|date=12 April 2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-54308-8|page=97}}
The magazine continues to grow and its edition in Argentina was launched in 2010.[http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=378098&CategoryId=13003 Hola! Magazine Launches Argentine Edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125005242/http://laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=13003&ArticleId=378098 |date=25 November 2010 }} Latin American Herald Tribune. 18 November 2010
Circulation
The combined readership of ¡Hola! and its various sister magazines is more than a million a week, a large growth from the original 4,000 copies which sold in its first week of production in 1944. The circulation of the magazine was 654,836 copies in 1993, making it the second best-selling magazine in Spain.{{cite web|title=Top paid-circulation consumer magazines|url=https://adage.com/article/news/top-paid-circulation-consumer-magazines-chart/82843/|work=Ad Age|accessdate=15 March 2015|date=17 April 1995}} The magazine was the third best selling magazine in the country with a circulation of 627,514 copies in 1997.{{cite book|author=Edward F. Stanton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0iOQPwAACAAJ|title=Culture and Customs of Spain|date=2002|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, CT|page=97|isbn = 9780313360800|url-access=|via=|accessdate=2021-09-03}}
The circulation of ¡Hola! was 553,042 copies in 2005.{{cite book|author=Ramón Salaverría|date=2007|chapter=The Spanish Media Landscape|chapter-url=http://dadun.unav.edu/bitstream/10171/36289/1/Spanish_media_landscape__Salaverria.pdf|title=European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions|publisher=Intellect Books Ltd|isbn=978-1-84150-192-5|page=279|accessdate=24 April 2015}} Its circulation was 537,270 copies in 2008 and 475,049 in 2009.{{cite web|title=World magazine trends 2010/2011. Spain|url=http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Spain.pdf|work=FIPP|accessdate=13 April 2015}}{{needs update|reason=circulation figures are 15+ years old|date=December 2024}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.hola.com/ }}
- Official [https://us.hola.com US website]
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Category:1944 establishments in Spain
Category:Magazines established in 1944
Category:Magazines published in Barcelona
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