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A measured audience, not a vanity reach.

LA Magazine is read on the couches, commutes, and calendars of one of the most desirable consumer markets in North America. The figures below are from our Q3 2025 publisher audit and Chartable-validated newsletter data — not modeled estimates.

  1. 480,000 Monthly unique readers Independent SimilarWeb audit, Q3 2025
  2. 92,000 Newsletter subscribers The LA Brief, weekly cadence
  3. 41% Average open rate Nearly double the publisher average
  4. 3:42 Average session duration vs. 1:14 publisher-category average

Who is already running here

Sixty-plus premium brands advertise with us.

The brands below are a selection of current and recent LA Magazine advertisers. They renewed in 2025 because the audience buys — and because they could buy nothing quite like it elsewhere.

  • Aether ApparelApparel
  • Wally's Wine & SpiritsWine Retail
  • Beverly Hills Chamber of CommerceTourism & Civic
  • Crescenta Valley RealtyReal Estate
  • Hôtel FigueroaHospitality
  • Silver Lake Wine Co.Wine Retail
  • Máchete BotanicaBeauty
  • Wells Fargo Private ClientFinance

Plus 52 other brands across fashion, automotive, residential development, spirits, and consumer tech. Request the full advertiser roster →

Placements & pricing

The standard rate card, in plain English.

All placements are sold flat — no auction dynamics, no remnant inventory surprise. Multi-flight discounts are available for Q1–Q4 commitments. Sponsored editorial is closed to new partners.

Placement Where it runs Guaranteed audience Rate (net / month)
Newsletter Sponsor Slot One per issue, top-of-stack, with dedicated creative. The LA Brief, 4 weekly issues 92,000 subscribers · 41% open rate $9,400
Homepage Leaderboard Above-the-fold, desktop + mobile unified. lamagazine.net, run of site ~480K monthly uniques · ~1.1M impressions $14,200
Run-of-Site Display In-article, sidebar, and category index slots. All editorial sections ~720K monthly impressions $6,800
Social Amplification Handcrafted post in our editorial voice, organic. Instagram, Threads, X — combined 184K followers Avg. 1.6% engagement rate $3,500

Need custom packages — newsletter + social + homepage, or a 12-week brand residency? Tell us what you're trying to move →

Who reads us

Style-conscious Angelenos with above-median household income.

Our median reader is 34, lives in a ZIP code with a median household income of $112K, and dines out — or orders in — five nights a week. Seventy-eight percent have made a purchase based on something they read in LA Magazine in the past twelve months.

  • 78% have purchased something we covered in the past year
  • $112K median household income, vs. $80K LA county median
  • 62% live within the 101 / 5 / 10 corridor — Echo Park to Beverly Hills
  • 41% identify as the primary decision-maker for household spending

Source: LA Magazine Reader Survey 2025, n = 4,812 respondents, conducted in partnership with Quartz Research. Audience composition data refreshes quarterly.

An LA Magazine reader at a plant nursery in Atwater Village.
Veronica, 36, Echo Park. LA Magazine reader since 2017.

What the press says about us

“When we need to know what is actually happening in Los Angeles — not the polished version of it — we call LA Magazine first. It is the primary source for the city's cultural coverage.”

Condé Nast Traveler 2024 Press Citation Survey

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