The Top Home & Decor Magazines as of Q3 2025 by the Numbers
Here are the decor and design media your readers are most interested in according to the current Alliance for Audited Media Report.
The Top Home & Decor Magazines Dominating this Year.
As marketers and publicists, our clients are always looking for the most prestigious media wins when it comes to product placement. Those luscious logos dancing across a “recent press” page can directly translate into sales, and help define a brand as being on-trend.
In today's media landscape, the influence of a magazine brand encompasses paper media, digital subscriptions, email lists, websites, mobile apps, social video, and more.
The Magazine Media 360° Report, published by the Alliance for Audited Media (AAM), gives us a quarter by quarter snapshot of reader trends as they correlate to media brands. Hot off the press are the numbers for Q3 2025 (July, August, September of this year).
We’ve analyzed the latest quarterly data (Q3 2025) for top Home, Decor, and Lifestyle brands to see who is truly capturing the cross-platform audience. The Total 360° number listed below is the most crucial metric, combining reach across all platforms, from print to mobile web, to give us the real size of a brand's influence.
Here is the definitive ranking of the most widely consumed home and decor magazine brands today.
The Top 17 Home & Decor Media Brands by Total 360° Audience
The following rankings represent the full, 360 degree cross-platform audience, measured in real-time numbers, showing that the power of magazine media is firmly in the millions.
Good Housekeeping: 38,240,000
Southern Living: 25,230,000
Country Living: 22,350,000
Better Homes And Gardens: 19,100,000
Real Simple: 15,520,000
House Beautiful: 8,870,000
Town & Country: 8,650,000
HGTV Magazine: 8,630,000
Woman's Day: 7,880,000
Martha Stewart Living: 6,200,000
Magnolia Journal: 5,230,000
Texas Monthly: 4,980,000
Elle Decor: 4,440,000
Midwest Living: 2,850,000
Veranda: 1,920,000
Dwell: 1,770,000
Garden & Gun: 1,280,000
Missing from this list is Architectural Digest which apparently doesn’t offer current numbers, but is estimated to have about 10 million total readers.
Apartment Therapy is not a “magazine” but is a significant decor and design media brand with about 22 million monthly users.
The Methodology Behind the Millions
This data underscores a critical shift: magazine brands are media brands. As explained by the Alliance for Audited Media, the Magazine Media 360° Report gathers verified audience data from leading third-party providers like MRI-Simmons, Ipsos, and Comscore to produce a unified, trustworthy view of audience reach.
Print + Digital Editions: Average issue readership (unduplicated).
Web & Mobile: Unique monthly visitors to the brand's website (Comscore).
Video: The number of users who watched branded or publisher-owned video content.
Total 360°: The combined audience across all these platforms.
The scale of these numbers, with the top decor oriented title reaching over 38 million people, confirms that these brands remain essential gatekeepers of trends, consumer interests, and influence in the home and decor market.
