Diez Minutos

{{Short description|A weekly women's magazine in Spain}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}

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| category = {{ubl|Women's magazine|Celebrity magazine|Entertainment magazine}}

| company = Hearst Corporation

| publisher = Hearst Magazines Espana S.L.

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| country = Spain

| based = Madrid

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| website = [http://www.diezminutos.es/ Diez Minutos]

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Diez Minutos (Spanish: Ten Minutes) is a Spanish language weekly celebrity, entertainment and women's magazine published in Madrid, Spain. The magazine has been in circulation since 1951.

History and profile

Diez Minutos was started in 1951.{{cite book|author1=Sandra Truscott|author2=Maria Garcia|title=Dictionary of Contemporary Spain

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LMp8RsxuU0cC&pg=PA90|year=2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-59509-7|page=90|location=New York; London}} It has its headquarters in Madrid. The magazine was part of Lagardère SCA and was published by Hachette Filipacchi Médias{{cite book|author=Mauro F. Guillén|title=The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain|publisher=Princeton University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=soC1jJsJuvoC&pg=PA117|year=2010|isbn=978-1-4008-2420-5|page=117|location=Princeton, NJ; Oxford}}{{cite news|title=HFM launches a new magazine in Spain|work=Lagardère|date=2 October 2001|url=http://www.lagardere.com/centre-presse/communiques-de-presse/communiques-de-presse-122.html&idpress=2094|access-date=8 June 2015}} until May 2011 when it was sold to Hearst Corporation.{{cite news|title=Hearst Magazines España El grupo Hearst culmina la compra en España de Hachette Filipacchi|url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/06/01/comunicacion/1306946155.html|accessdate=8 June 2015|work=El Mundo

|date=1 June 2011|location=Madrid|language=es}} It is published by Hearst Magazines Espana S.L. on a weekly basis{{cite web

|title=Publicidad|work=Hearst Magazines Espana|url=http://www.hearst.es/publicidad|access-date=8 June 2015}}{{cite web

|title=Diez Minutos Factsheet|publisher=Publicitas|url=http://www.publicitas.com/zh/home/media-solutions/media-search/media-factsheet-detail/mediadata/diez-minutos/?PARAM1=HM3DM4#.VXVvM2Ttmko|archive-date=15 January 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=8 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115200001/http://www.publicitas.com/zh/home/media-solutions/media-search/media-factsheet-detail/mediadata/diez-minutos/?PARAM1=HM3DM4#.VXVvM2Ttmko}} and offers news on celebrities.{{cite web|title=Spanish Gossip

|url=http://www.donquijote.org/culture/spain/society/customs/spanish-gossip|work=Don Quijote|access-date=8 June 2015}}{{cite book|editor=Tim Holmes|title=Mapping the Magazine: Comparative Studies in Magazine Journalism|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRrcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA102|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-99588-3|page=102|location=Abingdon; New York|author=Manuela Bueno

|display-authors=et. al.|chapter=The Rise of the Gossip Press in Spain}} The magazine has published similar news about Spanish politicians since 2000.{{cite journal|author1=Karen Sanders|author2=María José Canel|title=Spanish Politicians and the Media: Controlled Visibility and Soap Opera Politics|journal=Parliamentary Affairs|volume=57|issue=1|date=January 2004|doi=10.1093/pa/gsh016|page=205}} Milagros Valdé is one of the former editors-in-chief of the magazine.{{cite web|title=Gruner + Jahr Brings GALA To Spain, Sets Up Joint Venture

|url=http://www.guj.de/en/press/press-releases/gruner-jahr-brings-gala-to-spain-sets-up-joint-venture/|work=Gruner + Jahr|access-date=8 June 2015

|date=30 June 2004}}

Circulation

Diez Minutos was one of the best-selling magazines in Spain in the mid-1990s.{{cite book|author=Anny Brooksbank Jones|title=Women in Contemporary Spain|url=https://archive.org/details/womenincontempor0000broo|url-access=registration|year=1997|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-4757-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/womenincontempor0000broo/page/124 124]|location=Manchester; New York}} In 2003 the magazine sold 206,284 copies. The circulation grew to 281,524 copies in 2004. In 2007 its circulation further rose to 376,101 copies.{{cite book|editor=Alan Albarran|title=The Handbook of Spanish Language Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4uOPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA26|year=2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-85430-0|page=26|location=New York; London}} Diez Minutos sold 323,016 copies in 2009, making it the third best-selling women's magazine in Spain.{{cite web|title=World magazine trends 2010/2011. Spain

|url=http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Spain.pdf|work=FIPP|access-date=8 June 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621140534/http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Spain.pdf|archive-date=21 June 2012|df=dmy}}

The circulation of Diez Minutos was 333,203 copies in 2010 and 337,177 copies in 2011.{{cite web

|title=Top 50 Magazines|url=http://ifabc.org/site/assets/media/Top-50-magazines-30042014.xlsx|work=IFABC|access-date=8 June 2015|date=30 April 2014}} Its circulation was 293,235 copies in 2012.

See also

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