Tiger Beat was an American teen fan magazine published by The Laufer Company and marketed primarily to adolescent girls. The magazine had a paper edition that was sold at stores until December 2018, and afterward was published exclusively online until 2021.
 Tiger Beat magazine, first issue | |
| Categories | Teen, celebrity |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| First issue | September 1965 |
| Final issue | 2019 Winter |
| Company | Tiger Beat Media, Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | California |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 0040-7380 |
History and profile
editTiger Beat was founded in September 1965[1][2] by Charles "Chuck" Laufer, his brother Ira Laufer, and television producer and host Lloyd Thaxton.[3] The magazine featured teen idol gossip and carried articles on movies, music and fashion.[4] Charles Laufer described the magazine's content as "guys in their 20s singing 'La La' songs to 13-year-old girls."[5]
A distinctive element of Tiger Beat was its covers, which featured cut-and-paste collaged photos – primarily head shots – of current teen idols. For the first twelve issues, Thaxton's face appeared at the top corner of the cover (at first the magazine was titled Lloyd Thaxton's Tiger Beat), and he also contributed a column.[6] After 2016, the magazine cover featured a single image of a celebrity.[7]
During the 1960s, The Laufer Company leveraged the teen market dominated by Tiger Beat with similar magazines, including FaVE and Monkee Spectacular.[8] In 1998, Tiger Beat was sold by publisher Sterling/MacFadden to Primedia, which in 2003 sold the magazine to Scott Laufer, the son of magazine founder Charles Laufer.[9] Until 2014, Laufer also produced the similar teen magazine Bop.[10][11] After 2015, Tiger Beat was published by Los Angeles–based Tiger Beat Media, Inc.[12][13]
In popular culture
editJude Doyle founded the blog Tiger Beatdown (a punning reference to Tiger Beat) in 2008. It concluded in 2013.[14][15][16]
References
edit- ^ Alex French. "The Very First Issues of 19 Famous Magazines". Mental Floss. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
- ^ "Tweens, Teens, and Magazines" (PDF). Kaiser Family Foundation. January 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ "Lloyd Thaxton". IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 2017-04-06.
- ^ "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. May 5, 1973 – via Google Books.
- ^ "From Dylan to Bieber: A 'Tiger Beat' Cover Odyssey". Flavorpill Media. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
- ^ "Zany host of popular television dance show". Los Angeles Times. 2008-10-08. Retrieved 2017-04-06.
- ^ "How Teen Mag Tiger Beat Is Evolving to Target Celeb-Obsessed Gen Z-ers". AdWeek. 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
- ^ "Keeping Up With Your Favs – The Rise of Tiger Beat and The Laufer Company Magazines". Loti.com. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
- ^ "Names Change, but Hearts Beat the Same". Los Angeles Times. July 21, 1998.
- ^ The New York Times 28 May 2007
- ^ "A farewell to Bop". Gizmodo Media Group. 2014-07-24. Retrieved 2017-04-06.
- ^ "Tiger Beat Media, Inc". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
- ^ Ember, Sydney (2017-12-21). "Tiger Beat Magazine Is Revived With a New Vision". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
- ^ Mukhopadhyay, Samhita; Harding, Kate (2017). Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America. ISBN 978-1250155511.
- ^ Tillet, Salamishah (2016-09-20). "What We Can Learn From Women Who Break the Rules (Published 2016)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
- ^ Culp, Jennifer (2014). I Have Been Sexually Abused. Now What?. p. 18. ISBN 978-1477779767.