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A hundred-year profile

Bourjois

Bourjois peaked in the 1950s.

Coty lineage · est. 1900 · Evening in Paris, Soir de Paris
75.7%Peak, the 1950s
7Placements
1920 to 1958Span
14.3%Earned share
Open in the brand lens Compare against a rival
Share of voice by decade0%27%54%81%108%1920s1930s1940s1950s
All voiceAdvertising

Quality-weighted share among the tracked houses, read from Photoplay, Screenland, and Modern Screen. Descriptive, not causal.

Out-voiced by

No house clearly overtook it in the sampled decades.

Earned versus paid

Paid 6Earned 1

Mostly paid, with some earned editorial.

The evidence

A sample of the placements behind the figures above. Every point traces to a real page.

YearOutletChannelWhat appeared
1920The DelineatoradvertisingBourjois
1924Ladies' Home JournaladvertisingBOURJOIS
1935PhotoplayadvertisingEvening in Paris • BOURJOIS
1939ScreenlandadvertisingEvening in Paris BOURJOIS NEW YORK
1953Modern ScreenadvertisingBOURJOIS Created in France ... Made in the U.S.A.
1958PhotoplayadvertisingCREATED IN PARIS, MADE BY BOURJOIS IN U.S.A.

Other houses

Data via the Muse Parlor historical SOV API. How this is built →