
Entertainment & Media
Vanity Fair Spent $1M on a Cover. The Bots Didn't Notice.
A Vanity Fair cover ran a million-dollar production budget. Annie Leibovitz, eight outfit changes, custom couture, 1.2M print circulation. It worked through roughly 2015. Then the math broke. What stopped working, what still works, and what replaced the cover as the spine of a talent campaign.

