Caras (magazine)

Portuguese language women's magazine in South America and Portugal

Caras

Cover for the issue dated January 2022, featuring Ricky Martin

Categories| Women's magazine
Celebrity magazine
Frequency| Weekly
Circulation| 60,979 (September–October 2013)
Publisher| Editorial Perfil (Argentina and Uruguay)
Edimpresa-Editora Lda (Portugal)
Editora Perfil do Brasil (Brazil)
Founded| 1992; 33 years ago (1992) (Argentina)
1993; 32 years ago (1993) (Brazil)
1995; 30 years ago (1995) (Portugal)
Company| Editorial Perfil (Argentina)
Editora Caras (Brazil)
Trust in News (TIN) (Portugal)
Country| Argentina
Brazil
Portugal
Uruguay
Based in| Buenos Aires
Rio de Janeiro
Lisbon
Montevideo
Language| Spanish
Portuguese
Website| Caras Argentina
Caras Brasil
Caras Portugal
Caras Uruguay

Caras (Spanish and Portuguese: Faces) is a weekly celebrity and women's magazine published in Lisbon, Portugal. The magazine is also distributed in Brazil and Angola and published in Spanish language in Argentina and Uruguay.

## History and profile

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Caras was established in Argentina on 24 November 1992 by Editorial Perfil and launched in Portugal in 1995.[1][2][3] The magazine was part of the Portuguese conglomerate Impresa Group,[4][5] which also controlled the weekly newspaper Expresso and news magazine Visão.[6][7] In 2018 Portuguese company Trust in News (TIN) acquired the magazine.[8] The publisher of the magazine, based in Lisbon, was Edimpresa-Editora Lda, a subsidiary of the Swiss publishing company Edipresse.[3][9]

Caras provides weekly news on the private lives of the public figures both from Portugal and from other countries[10] and news about fashion, beauty, health, cuisine and decoration.[4] The magazine has been distributed weekly in Angola since September 2005.[10]

In 2014 Caras was the recipient of the Meios and Publicidade award in the category of society publication.[4]

From 1988 to 2019 an edition of Caras was published in Chile by Editorial Televisa.[11]

## Circulation

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In 2007 Caras had a circulation of 91,000 copies.[12] The circulation of the weekly was 88,691 copies from February 2008 to February 2009.[10] Its circulation was 60,979 copies between September and October 2013.[6]

## Channel TV

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On March 4, 2024, the Argentine magazine was launched as Caras TV on channel 21.1 of digital terrestrial television in Argentina.

## See also

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* List of magazines in Argentina

## References

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1. ^ "Overview of the Sector". GMCS. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
2. ^ Rui Alexandre Novais; Hugo Ferro (2013). "Media Stratups in a Creative Destructive Scenario" (PDF). II. International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
3. ^ a b "Caras". Publicitas. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
4. ^ a b c "Expresso, Caras and SIC News were awarded at the 12th edition of the Meios & Publicidade Awards". Eurotux. 18 November 2014. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
5. ^ "ONI and IMPRESA sign a Partnership deal for UMTS" (PDF). EDP. Lisbon. 21 September 2000. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
6. ^ a b "Portuguese Media". BPI Equity. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
7. ^ "A Good Impres[a]sion from Portuguese Media" (PDF). Equity Research. 1 September 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
8. ^ "The Portuguese publishing group Trust in News manages their advertisements from now with ADonLINE by Protecmedia". protectmedia. Retrieved 21 April 2020.[permanent dead link]
9. ^ "Company History and Profile. Edipresse S.A." Reference for Business. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
10. ^ a b c "Caras Media Kit" (PDF). Publicitas. June 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
11. ^ "El sentido adiós de la revista Caras: "El periodismo no muere"". Radio Cooperativa (in Spanish). 21 February 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
12. ^ Anne Austin; et al. (2008). "Western Europe Market and Media Fact" (PDF). Zenith Optimedia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.

## External links

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* Caras Argentina (in Spanish)
* Caras Brasil (in Portuguese)
* Caras Portugal (in Portuguese)
* Caras Uruguay (in Spanish)