Vibe Magazine Ends Its Print Edition

The American music and entertainment publication, Vibe Magazine, which is popular with hip-hop fans in South Africa, will end run after 21 years..

Vibe, which first began publication in 1993, was acquired by SpinMedia in April 2013 with initial reports that the magazine would be reduced to online-only, much like the group did with SPIN magazine after acquiring it in 2012.

The decision was then made to keep Vibe in print as a quarterly rather than a bimonthly publication. 

Those plans have now changed and the print edition has been scrapped. 

As a webzine, Vibe has seen six to seven million unique visitors per month and has a combined 1.4 million followers on Facebook and Twitter.