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Prometheus Global Media - Billboard
Prometheus Global Media is a
company that produce
multiple different genres of
magazines to aimed at
different people. For example;
The Hollywood
Reporter, Adweek, Film Expo
Group, etc.
Prometheus Global
Media, formerly e5 Global
Media, is an American
entertainment publishing
company based in New York
City. The company was
formed by the sale of the
entertainment and media
division of Nielsen Business
Media in December 2009.
The company's first CEO was
Richard D.
Beckman, previously an
executive at Condé Nast and
Fairchild Publications, and
former publisher of magazines
GQ and Vogue

Circulation Breakdown
Billboard is primarily sold in the
US, the most common
audience is college graduates at just over 65% and secondly
Upper management titles at just under 50%. The average
household income is over $212k. And there total readership
is 48k. From these figures we can tell that the magazine is
aimed at the higher class, around the A/B mark .
As the company and the magazine are manly based in the
US in the UK we do not know a lot about this magazine.

The company was founded in
2009 and primarily publishes
magazine for entertainment, thy
are based in the US with the
headquarters been in New York
City.
Top 3 Competitors;
- Advanstar Communications Inc.
- Reed Business Information-US
- Mail.com Media Corporation
Bauer Media Group - Q

The Bauer Media publishes a large range of
different magazines, covering a wide range
of genres. These range from
music, cars, gossip, photography including
magazines such as ‘MOJO’, ‘Digital
Photo’, ‘Closer’ and many more.

Q (Bauer Media Group):
As we can see from the brake down to the right that Q
is certified to produce a prink magazine that is in the
market sector of rock music. Q is produced every
month, making the magazine quite rare, compared to
others that produce weekly, allows the magazine to
indicate to the readers it isn't available every week and
there for encouraging them to buy it when it is
available.

Circulation Breakdown:
From the graph below we
can see that for Q the
highest sales are single
copy's, these will be sold in
shops/
newsagents etc. For Q there
multiple subscriptions are
very low, we would expect
these to be higher for such a
well known magazine.

Audience:
The audience for Q is mainly males at
68.3%, there audience is very much in
the ABC1 bracket at 70% of there
readers. The most popular readers are
those from 15-25 at just over 35%. From
this data we can see that the average
reader of Q is male, between the age of
15 and 25 and is from a higher class
(ABC1).
Development Hell LTD - MixMag

When looking at publisher research I found out that blender is not
longer being produced and there for could not find any information
about the producer of blender or blender its self.

Development Hell Ltd is an independent
media company based in
Islington, London.
They currently publish the market
leading international dance music
magazine, Mixmag along with the
Mixmag ipad app, mixmag.net, Mixmag
TV, Mixmag Events and
DontStayIn.com, the world's biggest
clubbing social network . They have
provided consultancy for some of
Britain’s biggest publishers and produced
tour brochures for some of the biggest
artists in the world.

Mixmag is a British
electronic dance and
clubbing
magazine, published
in London, England.
Circulation Breakdown
From the figures above we can see that the have
a rather high circulation percentage at just under
90%.
From the graph below we can see that there
highest sales come from news trade/single copy
sales, there monthly subscription sales aren't very
high but they are still very active.
Mixmag was the world's first dance
music magazine and has been the
market leader ever since. The first
issue was printed on 1 February 1983
as a 16-page black-and-white
magazine published by Disco Mix
Club, a DJ mailout service. The first
cover was the American music group
Shalamar, the first editor DMC's Tony
Prince and the first advertiser was a
company called Technics Panasonic.

It is the world's
biggest selling dance
music
magazine, with an
Audit Bureau of
Circulations audited
circulation of
approximately
20,000 (1 January
2011 – 31 December
2011).
Launched in 1982 in
the United
Kingdom, the
magazine covers
dance events, and
reviews music and
club nights.

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Task 5 - Publisher Research

  • 1. Prometheus Global Media - Billboard Prometheus Global Media is a company that produce multiple different genres of magazines to aimed at different people. For example; The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, Film Expo Group, etc. Prometheus Global Media, formerly e5 Global Media, is an American entertainment publishing company based in New York City. The company was formed by the sale of the entertainment and media division of Nielsen Business Media in December 2009. The company's first CEO was Richard D. Beckman, previously an executive at Condé Nast and Fairchild Publications, and former publisher of magazines GQ and Vogue Circulation Breakdown Billboard is primarily sold in the US, the most common audience is college graduates at just over 65% and secondly Upper management titles at just under 50%. The average household income is over $212k. And there total readership is 48k. From these figures we can tell that the magazine is aimed at the higher class, around the A/B mark . As the company and the magazine are manly based in the US in the UK we do not know a lot about this magazine. The company was founded in 2009 and primarily publishes magazine for entertainment, thy are based in the US with the headquarters been in New York City. Top 3 Competitors; - Advanstar Communications Inc. - Reed Business Information-US - Mail.com Media Corporation
  • 2. Bauer Media Group - Q The Bauer Media publishes a large range of different magazines, covering a wide range of genres. These range from music, cars, gossip, photography including magazines such as ‘MOJO’, ‘Digital Photo’, ‘Closer’ and many more. Q (Bauer Media Group): As we can see from the brake down to the right that Q is certified to produce a prink magazine that is in the market sector of rock music. Q is produced every month, making the magazine quite rare, compared to others that produce weekly, allows the magazine to indicate to the readers it isn't available every week and there for encouraging them to buy it when it is available. Circulation Breakdown: From the graph below we can see that for Q the highest sales are single copy's, these will be sold in shops/ newsagents etc. For Q there multiple subscriptions are very low, we would expect these to be higher for such a well known magazine. Audience: The audience for Q is mainly males at 68.3%, there audience is very much in the ABC1 bracket at 70% of there readers. The most popular readers are those from 15-25 at just over 35%. From this data we can see that the average reader of Q is male, between the age of 15 and 25 and is from a higher class (ABC1).
  • 3. Development Hell LTD - MixMag When looking at publisher research I found out that blender is not longer being produced and there for could not find any information about the producer of blender or blender its self. Development Hell Ltd is an independent media company based in Islington, London. They currently publish the market leading international dance music magazine, Mixmag along with the Mixmag ipad app, mixmag.net, Mixmag TV, Mixmag Events and DontStayIn.com, the world's biggest clubbing social network . They have provided consultancy for some of Britain’s biggest publishers and produced tour brochures for some of the biggest artists in the world. Mixmag is a British electronic dance and clubbing magazine, published in London, England. Circulation Breakdown From the figures above we can see that the have a rather high circulation percentage at just under 90%. From the graph below we can see that there highest sales come from news trade/single copy sales, there monthly subscription sales aren't very high but they are still very active. Mixmag was the world's first dance music magazine and has been the market leader ever since. The first issue was printed on 1 February 1983 as a 16-page black-and-white magazine published by Disco Mix Club, a DJ mailout service. The first cover was the American music group Shalamar, the first editor DMC's Tony Prince and the first advertiser was a company called Technics Panasonic. It is the world's biggest selling dance music magazine, with an Audit Bureau of Circulations audited circulation of approximately 20,000 (1 January 2011 – 31 December 2011). Launched in 1982 in the United Kingdom, the magazine covers dance events, and reviews music and club nights.