Q magazine would be a suitable media institution to distribute the author's EDM magazine because of similarities in style and target audience. Both magazines have a sophisticated black, red, and white color scheme and place more emphasis on cover text than vibrant colors. While Q magazine features more mainstream artists, its target audience of 29-year-olds from an ABC1 socioeconomic profile is aligned with the author's intended niche audience. Distributing through Q magazine would provide exposure without direct competition despite the different music genres covered.

1. Question 3
What kind of media institution might distribute your media
product and why?

2. In my opinion, I think that the magazine “Q” from Bauer media
is similar to my magazine. The style of the magazines is mostly a
color scheme of red white and black, much like mine. In “Q”s
magazine. The house style of the magazine is very sophisticated
as there isn’t large quantities of vibrant colors.
In addition, the masthead of the cover page is larger and more
attention seeking than the other cover line, similar to mine.
However, Q magazine uses text sizes in key words and graphic
designs to attract and highlight cover lines. This makes the
magazine looks more appealing to the audience

3. In addition, I think that both of the magazines, “q” and my
magazine, has the most similar target audience out of all of the
magazine researched (time publishing magazines and Bauer
media ). This is because the design layout of the two magazines.
However, there is different in terms of the genre of music .
Despite design similarities, “Q” magazine features more
mainstream artists and are exposed to a larger audience
compared to my magazine genre which is EDM. The fact that it is
EDM suggests that the magazine genre is mainly for an niche
audience unlike the mainstream artists like :oasis, Adele, Cheryl
Cole, ed sheeran who were all featured on the “Q” magazine.

4. • Personally I think that the publishing magazine would fit my
magazine profile. This is because my magazine has a similar
house style compared to the Q, despite the different music
genre, I think that this would be an advantage because then
there wouldn’t be rivalry between the two magazines with the
same music genre. As q magazine is more mainstream music
for a mainstream audience, my magazine would give the niche
audience a music magazine that there interested in.

6. • Q magazine, being the biggest music magazine in the uk, is the
most influential music magazine. This would fit my media
product because Q’s audience in comparison to mine is very
alike. The median age of their audience is 29 which are of a
similar age rage to my target audience. In addition, the ABC1
profile 68% which is a high percentage of formal audience
which is targeting a similar audience to mine as well. This
Indicates the similarity and the compatibility of the publishing.