| Magazine Name: |
VSD |
| Owner: |
Prisma Presse |
| Publisher: |
VSD-SNC |
| Country / Region: |
France (Paris) |
| Language: |
French |
| Format type: |
Magazine |
| Category: |
General |
| Political alignment: |
None |
| Frequency: |
Monthly |
| Publication Years (print version): |
1977 — now (46 years) |
| ISSN: |
1278-916X |
| Circulation: |
80,000 (2015) |
| Official Pages: |
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| Website: |
vsd.fr [read with translation] |
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«VSD» — is a French magazine-a weekend weekly dedicated to current events, incidents, celebrities, famous and not-so-famous names of France and Europe from the world of show business, cinema, television, sports, politics. General themes of this media: beautiful life, entertainment, fashion, travel, technological innovations, fashion trends, critical analytics. Traditionally, the magazine has been published every Thursday since 1977. The title of the publication is based on the first letters of the three names of the days of the week: Friday (Vendredi), Saturday (Samedi) and Sunday (Dimanche). In 2018, it was sold to Georges Gosnom and from that moment switched to a monthly publication.
The magazine was incredibly popular in France in the 1980s, when its weekly circulation reached 400 thousand copies. At that time, his main focus was photojournalism, and many photos of famous personalities (actors, models, athletes) were published on the pages of the magazine, mainly obtained from paparazzi. Another important topic of the magazine was motorsport, especially the Paris-Dakar rally. In its best years, VSD competed with such publications as «
Paris Match» and Newlook. In the 1990s, the magazine experienced a period of decline, faced financial difficulties, and was forced to close in 1995. The publication was bought out by Prisma Presse, and just a year later it returned to the periodical market with a new concept. In the following years, interest in the magazine rapidly declined, which was due to the appearance of new publications on the French press market and the active development of digital technologies and the Internet. Today, the magazine is still based on photo reports on current topics (politics, economics, celebrity life, exotic travel, extreme sports), it is published with a circulation of about 80 thousand copies.
