The four major magazine institutions in the UK are Bauer Media, IPC Media, BBC, and EMAP. Bauer Media publishes over 300 magazines worldwide and focuses on print magazines and radio in the UK. IPC Media creates magazines across various platforms that reach 26 million adults monthly in the UK. The BBC produces magazines in many genres that attract a large overall audience. EMAP specialized in magazine production and once published 59 magazines, notably Smash Hits and Nintendo Official Magazine, reaching 2 million people monthly. Companies continue creating magazines as the format can reach a wide range of people, though production has expanded to digital formats to maintain audiences in modern times.

1. Researching Magazine
Institutions

2. Who creates magazines?
Magazine
companies
IPC Media
NME
EMAP
Smash
Hits
BBC
Top of
the Pops
Classical
Music
Magazine
Bauer
Kerrang
MOJO
Q Magazine
Uncut
Edition’s
Freeway
Rock
Sound

3. The 4 major magazine institutions are

4. Bauer Media
• Bauer Media are part of the Bauer Media
Group that spread its publishing groups with
300 magazines worldwide and other media
platforms of online, TV and radio. However
their most popular media publishing in the UK
is magazine print and radio. Many of their
magazine concepts having been transferred to
radio (Kerrang- Kerrang radio).

5. IPC Media
• IPC Media creates many different media
across many different types of platforms. They
create magazine genres for
print, online, mobile and tablet forms but in
the UK they are mostly known for their print
magazine. They have an audience of 26 million
adults, mostly women. Their websites also
appeal 25 million people every month.

6. BBC
• One of the most popular magazines in the
UK, BBC magazines produce many different
genres of magazines from children to music to
food and lifestyle. They therefore have a large
target audience overall meaning they are
successful and sell more copies of their
magazine.

7. EMAP
• EMAP is a British company that specialize in
magazine production but they also create
radio stations too and organise events. They
have created 59 magazines in total. Their most
popular magazines are Smash Hits and
Nintendo Official Magazine. They reached 2
million people per month.

8. Why Do People Create Magazines?
Companies create magazine because they are still a
popular form of media that can reach across many
people. In order to keep up with the times and to ensure
they still have an audience to carry producing magazines
for, magazine production companies now need to create
digital formats of their magazines. With this in mind
still, magazine can reach across many age groups, social
classes and background, giving information and
entertainment for a mass group of people. With such a
large amount of magazine readers and target
audience, magazine still can make a profit from
production, but these days this production may have to
be on a digital format.