Blitz (Portuguese magazine)
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Blitz is a Portuguese media brand that focus on popular music and pop culture, based in Paço de Arcos. Since February 2018, the brand is present only on digital media and sporadic, special printed editions. Between November 1984 and April 2006, Blitz took the form of a weekly newspaper. Later, between June 2006 and January 2018, Blitz was issued as a monthly magazine. It was one of the earliest music publications in Portugal.
History and profile
Blitz was founded in November 1984.{{cite web|author1=Rui Alexandre Novais|author2=Hugo Ferro|title=Media Stratups in a Creative Destructive Scenario|url=http://www.cmdconf.net/2013/makale/PDF/29.pdf|work=II. International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design|accessdate=1 December 2014|date=2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211134010/http://www.cmdconf.net/2013/makale/PDF/29.pdf|archive-date=11 December 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|author=Richard Elliott|title=Fado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sa-gR-P-pVEC&pg=PA143|accessdate=19 November 2014|year=2010|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-6795-7|page=143}} The magazine is based in Lisbon and is published by Medipress.{{cite web|title=Blitz (Portugal)|url=http://www.publicitas.com/spain/media-solutions/factsheet/mediadata/blitz-portugal/?PARAM1=AL4BL2#.VGw7_1esUX4|work=Publicitas|accessdate=19 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129041347/http://www.publicitas.com/spain/media-solutions/factsheet/mediadata/blitz-portugal/?PARAM1=AL4BL2#.VGw7_1esUX4|archive-date=29 November 2014|url-status=dead}}
In July 1992, it was acquired by Impresa, which gave the magazine access to more advanced technology, like color treatment. In June 2006, Blitz began to be published on a monthly basis.
The 2004 circulation of Blitz was about 20,000 copies.{{cite magazine|title=Singies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FhAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA58|date=3 April 2004|accessdate=19 November 2014|magazine=Billboard|pages=58|issn=0006-2510}} Its circulation was 16,000 copies in 2007.{{cite web|author=Anne Austin|display-authors=etal|title=Western Europe Market and Media Fact |url=http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20&%20MediaFact%202008.pdf|work=ZenithOptimedia|accessdate=10 April 2015|date=2008|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205131709/http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20%26%20MediaFact%202008.pdf|archivedate=5 February 2015|df=dmy}} The magazine had a circulation of 16,344 copies in 2010 and 14,008 in 2011.{{cite web|title=Top 50 Magazines|url=http://ifabc.org/site/assets/media/Top-50-magazines-30042014.xlsx|work=IFABC|accessdate=22 March 2015|date=30 April 2014}} The circulation of the magazine was 10,648 copies in 2012.
In late 2017, Impresa announced that the regular (i.e., monthly) publication of Blitz would cease to exist and that the Blitz brand would still be present in the form of its website and special, non-monthly editions of the magazine.{{cite web |author1=Miguel Cadete |title=BLITZ: Começar outra vez |url=http://blitz.sapo.pt/opiniao/2017-12-18-BLITZ-Comecar-outra-vez |website=Blitz |access-date=12 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219031220/http://blitz.sapo.pt/opiniao/2017-12-18-BLITZ-Comecar-outra-vez |archive-date=2018-02-19 |language=pt |date=2017-12-18 |url-status=dead}} It is expected that there would be published at least three special editions of the magazine in 2018. Since 2018, Blitz and Expresso are the only printed publications owned by Impresa.
See also
References
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External links
- [https://expresso.pt/blitz Official website]
{{Music of Portugal}}
Category:1984 establishments in Portugal
Category:Magazines established in 1984
Category:Magazines published in Lisbon
Category:Portuguese-language magazines