2. Bauer Media
Bauer Media Group is a large European based media company that manages a
portfolio of magazines, digital products, radio and TV stations in local markets
across the world.
Bauer Media Group started off as a small printing house in Germany, Bauer
then entered the UK under the name of H Bauer publishing and launched
Bella magazine in 1987, since then Bauer have continued to grow and in 2012
made a turnover of more than €2 billion. To this day Bauer Media UK reaches
over 22 million UK consumers every week through a portfolio of world-class,
multi-platform media and entertainment brands including heat, Kiss, Grazia,
Empire, Magic and Absolute Radio.
Bauer Media Group has a 50% stake in the British television company Box
Television, the other half owned by Channel 4. Box Television acts as the
content subsidiary that produces several popular music television channels,
which include: 4Music,The Box, Heat, Kerrang!, Kiss, Magic and Smash Hits
3. Magazine Brands of Bauer
Bauer Media Group own and create a variety of
different and popular magazines in all different
genres and brands which help Bauer become the
massive business they are today. Bauer currently
have 20 different brands of which are published
in the UK ranging from Music, Entertainment and
motorcycling to Football, Equine and Gardening.
4. Bauer’s Music Magazines
Bauer create the music magazine ‘Q’, the UK’s biggest selling music monthly
magazine, the Q brand has developed a worldwide reputation as a trusted
and premium quality voice of musical authority amongst fans, musicians and
the music industry alike - one that is founded upon Q's unrivalled access,
world-beating exclusives and outstanding production values. Q sells 52,781
magazines a month.
Bauer also create the music magazine ‘MOJO’, ‘MOJO’ is the world’s largest
UK music magazine, delivering a monthly dose of world class journalism and
iconic photography to an audience of extremely passionate music consumers.
‘MOJO’ magazine sells 94,600 magazines a month and currently has 211,000
readership with the mean age of the readers being 37 years of age with 66%
of those being in the audience code A,B,C 1.
5. Immediate Media Co.
Immediate Media Co is an award-winning special interest content and
platform company. Immediate Media are one of the biggest consumer media
businesses in the UK and the third largest magazine publisher.
Immediate Media was founded when private equity house Exponent merged
media business Magicalia with Origin Publishing and a portfolio of BBC
magazine titles bought for £121m in 2011. Immediate Media has 36 websites,
58 magazines and more than 70 brands reaching 25m people a month. It has
more than 1m subscribers and its titles include the Radio Times and BBC’s
Gardeners’ World. Tom Bureau, 45, became chief executive after the merger,
and raised profits to £13.8m in 2013.
6. Magazine brands of Immediate
Immediate have a vast variety of magazine
brands ranging from Travel, Food and Lifestyle
to Music, Science and TV magazines.
Immediate currently have 14 different brands
of magazines in which they publish which
helps them to reach and attain their wide-scale
audience in which they have achieved
through there multiple magazine brands.
7. Immediate’s Music Magazines
‘BBC Music Magazine’, BBC Music Magazine is
the world’s best selling classical music magazine
and is the most comprehensive monthly guide to
the world of classical music – live, broadcast and
recorded. It is packed full of information and
inspiring features on all aspects of classical music
and is read by an engaged, informed audience of
affluent, upmarket culture.
‘Top Of The Pops’, BBC Top Of The Pops Magazine
is the biggest-selling teen lifestyle title in the
market, focusing on self discovery, self
expression and the world of celebrities.
Featuring the latest fashion and beauty, star
gossip, real life stories and celebrity advice, the
magazine brings readers exclusive and exciting
content every four weeks.
8. TimeInc.Uk
Time Inc. UK is Britain’s leading publisher
of print and digital magazine content,
with more than 60 iconic brands -
including Decanter, Country Life, Horse &
Hound, NME, What's On TV and
Wallpaper* - Time Inc. UK (formerly IPC
Media) creates content for multiple
platforms, across print, online, mobile,
tablets and experiences.
9. Magazine brands of TimeInc.UK
‘TimeInc.Uk’ have over 60 iconic
magazine brands that captivate the
nation- this is what allows ‘TimeInc.UK’
to reach 55% of all women in the UK and
over half of all mums as well as 1 in
every 2 people in the audience code
Super AB’s.
‘TimeInc.UK’s brands vary from TV and
Country magazines to Shooting and
Music magazines – helping them achieve
their wide-scale audience.
10. TimeInc.UK’s Music Magazines
NME is at the forefront of music culture – setting agendas, instigating
debate and championing exciting artists of all genres. The NME
Awards/Shows & Tour are some of the most important events in the UK
music calendar and have been instrumental in launching the careers of
some of the biggest acts in the world; including Arctic Monkeys, The
Killers and Florence + The Machine. The complete portfolio of NME live
events are attended by some 215,000 music fans annually.
‘UNCUT’, The home of great, timeless rock music. ‘UNCUT’ readers
spend£792 on music and £300 on DVDS per year – this is over twice the
amount a year than the average adult. Uncut pioneered cover mounted
CDs curated by stars – Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and
Paul Weller have all collaborated with Uncut. Uncut has been twice voted
the PPA (Professional Publishers Association) Magazine of the Year and
the PPA International Magazine of the Year.
11. EMAP
EMAP owns industry-leading brands that sit at the
heart of business powerful B2B communities like
Retail, Health, Construction, Architecture, and
Fashion. Always independent, relentlessly
inquisitive, EMAP embodies quality, market-leading
journalism. We act as the ultimate industry insider,
and strive to always be the trusted authority. EMAP
provides the best possible way to connect with
their world.
12. Magazine Brands of EMAP
EMAP currently have 16 different magazine
brands which they are currently publishing.
These magazine brands range from Retail
magazines such as ‘RetailWeek’ and ‘Drapers’
as well as Health magazines such as ‘HSJ’ and
‘NursingTimes.Net, EMAP also have a
selection of construction magazines these
are: ‘ConstructionNews’, ‘NCE’ and
‘GroundEngineering’.