The survey results showed that the target audience for the magazine is primarily 18-25 year olds, most of whom are still in education. Classical Greece was the most popular topic among respondents. This informed the magazine's focus on Greek city-states, economies, and lifestyles. Romans and Greeks were the most sought after historical figures. Mythology content outranked all others, with Greco-Roman gods proving most popular. Apollo, Anubis and Odin were favored deities to feature from their respective pantheons. The research will guide the magazine's content selection and organization.
3. Target Audience Profile
• Understanding my target audience will be crucial to the success of the
project as without a proper grasp on my target audience I will be unable to
create a product that will optimally satisfy the majority of the audience
buying the magazine. It’s difficult to know exactly who my target audience
is, so my plan is to create a survey and circulate it around both my
personal social medias, and posting it to online community sites like
Reddit. This will allow me to not just get more specific answers from those
I know personally, but ask specific communities that are already interested
in the subject of the magazine what they would be most interested to see,
as this help me narrow down exactly what forms of content potential
buyers will want to see. I have circulated the survey in several places on
Reddit, including r/ancienthistory, r/mythology and r/ancientcivilisations.
4. Audience Research
• 2014, University of Toronto conducted a study where publishers who
emphasised digital content
7. Existing Product
Website is organized neatly with
guides and hotkeys at the top, as
well as a search bar
Clear pricing and delivery
methods just below the title
Detailed descriptions of what
you’ll find inside, as well as an
option to view a few pages
without buying to ensure the
content is what the customer is
looking for
8. Existing Product
The article makes use of three distinctly colored images to attract the
attention of readers, with an orange map of the ancient world and the
Parthenon in front of blue sky immediately captures a reader’s
attention with color alone. The image of the Parthenon in particular is
centered to make it the main attraction of the page.
Titles are in a separate,
brighter color with a subtitle
in bold below. Maintains a
consistent style
Images spread fairly evenly
throughout page with
largest in the centre and the
other two in inverted
position on the page
9. Existing Product
Bright image of the Giza Necropolis stands
out from the blank white background to
draw in potential readers
Titles in bold and a standout colour,
subtitles in a larger and different font.
Information spaced into columns to
make efficient use of only having one
page
Extra information to describe the
images in case the reader is confused
as to what they may be looking at
10. Existing Product
Very apparent title and themed
coloring to the subject of the
magazine, with explanatory
subtitle
Recognizable and centered art,
which even at a glance explains
what may be covered in the
magazine, makes use of bright
colors to draw in customers, is
easily identifiable as themed by
absolute newcomers, such as
the Colosseum, temples,
gladiators and an emperor,
whereas more learned
individuals in the field may
recognize the center man as
Julius Caesar, and the Great Fire
of Rome depicted behind him
Extra information about more articles within the magazine, placed just
below the artwork to naturally draw a reader’s eye next
11. Existing Product
Noticeable marble texture,
recognisable for even newcomers to
the Greek world
Main title bold and decorated,
subtitle is just below and has
inverted text an background
colours
Recognisable artwork collection
clearly showing the theme and
immediately captures customers
with varied styles and many
different pieces
Like most other covers it has
a central image surrounded
by extra images/information
12. Existing Product
Different style of title to the other
magazines, being a different size for
each word. The subtitle is also much
smaller and stands out less.
Consistent colour theme of gold in
different shades throughout the entire
design
Easy to recognise display of images
depicting Pharaohs, the Great
Pyramids and the Sphinx
Mostly historical photos of notable
discoveries or landmarks in Egypt to
make the theme more apparent and
easily understandable to cutstomers
Central image surrounded by
other images/information
13. Existing Product
Title once again has different sizes
throughout, with a consistent font and
subtitle below
Broad variety of pictures to give a
wide display of things the magazine
may cover, from war, to travel,
society and religion.
Extra information with enticing
language and sticker design to
draw reader in
16. Audience Research Summary
• By circulating my survey across several Reddit Communities as
well as my personal social medias I was able to collect 112
responses to my survey, which gives me a large data sample to
work with when figuring out what my target audience wants
from the magazine. The first two questions were aimed at
figuring out the general demographic of the most likely
audience, whereas the later questions honed in on what the
audience would like to see most in the magazine.
17. Audience research
• The first question asked the age of the participants. I created a wide range
of different options for where I thought would likely be demographic
differences and predicted a wide range of results which appears to have
been the result. Most of my audience age between 18 and 25, with the
second largest category being 25-35. In fact, 83% of my audience are
adults, meaning they are likely well educated and most will be working in
consistent jobs or currently in university education.
18. Audience research
• The result of the second question was an almost completely evenly split,
with very slightly more of the participants being still in formal education.
This leads me to believe that most of the people who answered that they
were 18-25 in the previous question were closer to 18, as if we combine
that number with those who responded with 15-18 and under 15, we have
roughly 50%. Since people above the age of 25 are less likely to be in
formal education, we can safely assume that the vast majority of 18-25
year olds are also in education.
19. Audience research
• The rest of the questions were based around the most popular topics for
the content of the magazine. I expected Persia to be the least voted, and
either Greece or Rome on top, but was surprised by the amount that
Classical Greece ended up leading by. This will mean that I will focus most
of the magazine’s content towards the major city states of Classical
Greece, their economy and lifestyle.
20. Audience research
• The results of the 4th question were very close to what I predicted, with
Rome and Greece again dominating the popularity. Because of the
minimal difference between these two, I will likely do a spread for each of
them, and a single page each for the Egyptians and Persians. I will be
doing parts on all of the Romans and Greeks mentioned, however which
Pharaoh and Achaemenid Emperor I do will largely depend on the results
of my interviews and who I can most easily find editable art and
information about.
21. Audience research
• The results of the 5th question were similar to my expectations, with the
Legion being the most popular choice. The Horde was relatively close
behind, with the Phalanx trailing behind. I will likely devote a single double
page spread to this entire topic, with a full page on the Legion and how
they fought and moved, with the other page being split between the
Horde and the Phalanx. I may cover these in less detail and more focused
on how they compared to the Legion in combat to further conform to the
audience’s specification.
22. Audience Research
• The result of the 6th question was also perfectly in line with my predictions, as
Greco-Roman mythology won by a landslide, with Norse having more than
twice as many votes than Egyptian. This means I will devote an entire page to
the classical Greco-Roman religion, and half a page each for the Norse and
Egyptian Ancient religions. This segment will be a change in subject for the
magazine as it will shift towards the beliefs and Gods of each civilisation, and so
the art style may also vary in colour and tone slightly.
23. Audience Research
• The results of the next three polls were to determine the most popular
deities from each Pantheon so I could know who to feature most. For the
Greco-Roman pantheon, Apollo was by far the most popular of the Gods
suggested, so he will be the main focus of his own page, perhaps featuring
small segments about Zeus/Jupiter and Ares/Mars at the bottom of the
page, since the two were fairly close in number.
24. Audience Research
• The results of this poll were almost exactly as I predicted, with Anubis
being by far the most popular with over 50% of the vote. Bastet was by far
the least popular, so I will likely avoid doing part of the page on her, and
focus only on Anubis and Isis. Anubis will be the centre focus of the page,
as well as his pet Ammit. Isis will be featured in a smaller section likely
towards the bottom of the page and below the main chunk of text on
Anubis.
25. Audience Research
• The results for the Norse Pantheon were closer than I had initially
expected, however the results were in my predicted order, with Odin
being the most popular by a fair margin. As such, most of the article will
be on him and there will be a small section for Freyja nearer the bottom of
the page. I am going to be omitting Tyr because his results were noticeably
lower than Freyja’s so the article will consist of only information on Odin
and Freyja.
32. Bibliography
1. Parsons, Owen. (2022) Target Audience Research Survey (conducted on
DATE)
2. Interviewees, Name. (2018) Target Audience Interviews (conducted on
DATE)
Editor's Notes
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