Bonytt
{{Short description|Norwegian monthly home and interior design magazine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}
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| frequency = Monthly
| circulation = 25,203 (2022)
| category = Home and interior design magazine
| publisher = Egmont Hjemmet Mortensen A/S
| founder = {{ubl|Arne Remlow | Per Tannum}}
| founded = {{start date and age|1941}}
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| country = Norway
| based = Oslo
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Bonytt is a Norwegian monthly home and interior design magazine based in Oslo, Norway. Founded in 1941, it is one of the oldest magazines in the country as well as the most popular magazine in its category.{{cite journal|author1=Thomas Berker
|author2=Helen Jøsok Gansmo|title=Paradoxes of design: energy and water consumption and the aestheticization of Norwegian bathrooms 1990–2008
|journal=Sustainable Development|date=June 2010|volume=18|issue=3|pages=135–149|doi=10.1002/sd.454|hdl=11250/2463358|hdl-access=free}}
History and profile
Bonytt was established by Arne Remlow and Per Tannum in 1941.{{cite book|editor=Grace Lees-Maffei|title=Writing Design: Words and Objects|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GV9gAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|year=2013|pages=47, 50|publisher=Berg|isbn=978-1-84788-957-7
|author=Kjetil Fallan|location=London; New York|chapter=The metamorphosis of a Norwegian design magazine, Nye Bonytt, 1968–1971}}{{cite book|author=Minna Sarantola-Weiss|editor1=Hanna Johansson|editor2=Kirsi Saarikangas|title=Homes in Transformation: Dwelling, Moving, Belonging |year=2009|publisher=Finnish Literature Society|location=Helsinki|isbn=9789522220882|page=42|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=shFWQwAACAAJ|chapter=Representations of the Finnish Home in the Interior Decoration Magazines of the 1960s and 1970s}} Ramlow was the owner and long-term editor-in-chief of the magazine, which has its headquarters in Oslo.{{cite news|title=Factsheet. Bonytt|url=http://www.adnative.net/home/media-solutions/media-search/media-factsheet-detail/mediadata/bonytt/?PARAM1=MO2BO1#.V2WVqJOLTVo|access-date=18 June 2016|work=Publicitas}} In 1947 the magazine become the official media outlet of the Norwegian Applied Art Association. In the 1950s it adopted a modernist approach, which was left later. Then it positioned itself as a source for inspiration for the amateur interior designers. In 1967 the magazine was renamed as Nye Bonytt to indicate its new approach.
The magazine is part of Egmont/Orkla ASA.{{cite web|title=Consumer magazines: Top ten titles by circulation/issue 2006|url=http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/medieforskning-statistik/1131_2030_Cons_mags_top10_2006.xls
|work=Nordicom|access-date=18 June 2016|archive-date=8 March 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308072710/http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/medieforskning-statistik/1131_2030_Cons_mags_top10_2006.xls}} It is published monthly by Egmont Hjemmet Mortensen A/S. In 2010 an IPad version of Bonytt was started.{{cite news|author=Andreas Marckmann Andreassen|title=Egmont lancerer sit første magasin til iPad|work=Journalisten|url=https://journalisten.dk/egmont-lancerer-sit-forste-magasin-til-ipad/|access-date=2 April 2022|date=15 October 2010|language=da}}
Circulation
In 1999 Bonytt sold 711,000 copies, making it the best-selling consumer special interest magazine in Norway.{{cite web|title=Major Magazine titles (1999)|work=FIPP|access-date=18 June 2016|url=http://s3.amazonaws.com/zanran_storage/www.fipp.com/ContentPages/998500250.pdf}} The circulation of the magazine was 68,000 copies in 2003.{{cite book|title=The Europa World Year: Kazakhstan - Zimbabwe|volume=II
|location=London; New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C&pg=PA3231|year=2004|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-85743-255-8|page=3231}} In 2006 the magazine sold 62,900 copies. Its 2022 circulation was 25,203 copies.{{cite web
|title=Opplag, frekvens og utgiver for norske ukeblader|url=https://medienorge.uib.no/statistikk/392|website=medienorge|access-date=25 July 2023|language=no}}
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Category:Magazines established in 1941
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