The target audience of NME Magazine is teenagers and adults aged 16-30 who are interested in music, musicians, and entertainment news. The magazine aims to engage both male and female readers from a variety of religious backgrounds including Christians, Catholics, and Muslims. It also targets readers with different hobbies focused on music, computer games, and clothing as well as readers from various racial groups including white, black, Asian, and others. The magazine contains advertising, interviews, reviews of albums and festivals, and event listings that take up approximately one third of the total pages.

1. Media Homework
By: Matthew Miller

2. Introduction
• The magazine that I have looked up is NME Magazine, which is a based on
celebrities, musicians, music and entertainment in and around the music industry. However
the target audience of this magazine is mostly to directed at teenagers and adults and the
concept of the age groups are 16-20 and ending off from the ages of 30- over who would
constantly read the magazine.
Different age groups that read the
NME Magazine?
30-over
26-30
21-25
16-20

3. Target audience theory
• The target audience that the NME Magazine is it is gender of its audience that read
the magazine and depending on the context of pages including headlines and
images to its audience, whether it be male or female.
Gender of audiences
Male
Female

4. Religion of audience
• The religion of its audience has a different varieties of
Christians, Catholics, Muslims and others that mostly the NME Magazine.
Types of religions of the audience that
read the NME Magazine?
Catholics
Christians
Muslims
Others

5. The target audience interest in
hobbies?
• The audience that the NME Magazine directly aims for has a different oppressions
within its hobbies.
Interest of hobbies
Music
Computer games
Clothing wear
Others

6. The different types of race groups
• The audience of its race that read the magazine are all different types from
White, Black, Asians and others, but the NME Magazine has a standard of where
there would want to engaged with their audience depending on the variety of
music or entertainment.
Race groups of audience
Whites
Blacks
Asians
Others

7. Context analysis: NME Magazine
How many pages does the product advertising take up?
Adverts
• Sonic editions- The festival collection takes up one page.
• Halo- The computer game advert takes up four pages
• Rapper Big Sean interview takes up one two pages
• The UK biggest music festivals takes up one page
Features
• Its about Haim feature takes up one page
• Paul McCarthy feature takes up one page
• 18 Albums to get excited about takes up two pages
• 26 of the grossest band names ever heard takes up one page
• 30 of the most hilarious misheard lyrics takes up one page
Listings
Wretch 32 plays Durex intimate gig at glee club takes up one page
• Plan B London O2 shepherds bush performance takes up one page
• Befestival concert takes up one page
• Bournemouth music festival takes up one page
• Glastonbury 2014 features takes up one page
• 60 awesome photos top get you in the Glastonbury spirit feature takes up one page