2. Size, shape and structure and description
of the Magazine industry in the UK
The magazine industry is quite big s it has about 2,681 business in the UK and the revenue
is about £6bn per year. Publishing is made up of a diverse group of industries including:
Books, Directories and Mailing Lists, Journals, Magazines and Business Media,
Newspapers, News Agencies and other Information Services.
3. Vogue
Is an American fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 23 national and regional editions by Conde
Nast that has a total circulation 1,315,304. Vogue means “in style” in French. It’s aimed at fashion every month they
publish. The owner is Conde Nast they age range is aimed around 20+ and above. Conde Nast also own and
publicised other magazines they do:
Fashion and Lifestyle:
*W *Glamour *Allure *Self *Teen Vogue *GQ *Details *Lucky *Style.com/print
Home:
*Architectural digest
Bridal:
*Brides
Golf:
*Golf digest *Golf world
Food:
*Bon Appetit *Epicurious *Gourmet live
Travel:
*Conde Nast Traveller *Concierge
Technology:
*Wired *Ars Technica
Culture:
*Vanity Fair *The New Yorker
Trade:
*WWD *Footwear News
It all together produces 18 consumer magazines it has 27 websites and has more than 50 apps for mobiles and tablets.
4. Kerrang!
Is a UK-based magazine devoted to Rock music published by Bauer Media group.
Circulation is 42,077. The founder is Alan Lewis first issue at 6th June 1981 published
weekly. The publisher Bauer Media group industries in publishing and broadcasting is a
multinational media company headquartered in Hamburg Germany which operates in 16
countries around the world. Worldwide circulation of Bauer Media group’s magazines
titles amounts to 38 million magazines a week. They also publish Bella, Take a Break and
That’s life! And TV listings titles. Bauer Media brands Q magazine and Kerrang. Bauer
has a 50% stake in the British Company BOX television the other half owned by Channel
4, which also includes:
*4Music *The BOX *Heat *Kerrang *Kiss *Magic *Smash Hits
5. Mad
Is an American humour magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman. The circulation is
175,000-2,100,000. They do comics and can be to all age range they also do about lifestyle,
entertainment and politics. The owner DC comics publications in comics and is one of the
largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American Comic books.
The parents company of DC comics are Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Time Warner.
Warner Bros Entertainment it was founded at 1918. It’s an American producer of film,
television and music entertainment it’s also subsidiary with Time Warner which is an
multinational media corporation. It was the world’s second largest media and entertainment
conglomerate in terms of revenue (behined the Walt Disney Company), The Time Warner
also has divisions in HBO, Turner, Broadcasting System, Inc Warner Bros and Time Inc.
6. Other magazines platforms
Magazines has different platforms such as websites, apps ect which this leads to an
advantage of having more buyers but also more media interest as many people today
don’t even buy magazines they buy through apps on ipads, blackberrys and many
other technology mostly on the internet.
7. Advertising on magazines
Advertisement that you see on the magazines pays and helps supports the magazine
company to publish as the magazines gets money from the advertisements and no other
way also they get money from the customers who purchases the magazines but it don’t
make much of a profit alone from it as paper and printing costs a big amount of the
money to the company.
