Research on magazine publishers.

Ipc media produce NME magazine and Uncut. These are two popular music magazines, they sell NME for £2:30 per week. They have a fan base of over 1 million a week and is claimed to the longest published and respected music magazine in the world and has been made for 58 years. It features mainly rock and indie music.


Uncut is not only based on music but also movies and the genre of music is rock and feature old and new music/movies. They charge £4:50 a month for this magazine.


This institution also produces other popular magazines such as Woman, Look, Classic Boat and Soap Life showing a large range of choice produced by this institution.


Also each of these magazines have a website.


 The institution Bauer create the popular magazine Kerrang. They aim this magazine aims itself at an audience of 'Individually minded, independent of thought and musically experienced, an audience defined by attitude, passion and loyalty'. They also have a radio station and television channel to nationalise their product


They also produce the magazine MOJO, this magazine bases itself around the greatest music, particularly old music such as the Beatles.


Also they produce Q magazine, this is also a very popular magazine and claims to be the biggest sold monthly music magazine. An important feature of this magazine is that it does not just offer music information, it also informs readers on recent sports, comedy and other things such as politics. Giving readers more of a variation and making the magazine more appealing. They also have a radio station and music channel.


This institution also produces other popular magazines such as Heat, Closer, More, Zoo and classic bike. Producing a massive range of magazines.


Also each of these magazines have a website about them.


 This institution does not produce a music magazine. It produces other popular magazines such as Vogue along with teen vogue, Glammor, Golf Digest and Lucky. This shows a gap in the market as I could use Conde Nast to produce my music magazine as they do not produce on already and could benefit from it more than the other institutions and are more likely to want to produce it. Clearly this institution has a lot of experience in magazines and how to make them popular.


Although the other magazines do have more experience in music magazines they already produce a number of them so they would not be interested in producing any more.