• EMAP gives access to millions of people all over the universe who are involved in media, retail, finance, fashion, built environment, government and automotive sectors, for these people EMAP provides essential needs.

• It is a business-to-business multiplatform media group. Their brands inform, inspire and connect within the sectors they operate with.

• EMAP depends on the imagination and passion of people to invent and develop their brands, and drive the business forward. Personal accountability is at the centre of EMAP, which means EMAP employees are empowered to create the kind of timely, dynamic products their customers find

Bauer Media is a division of the Bauer Media Group, Europe’s largest privately owned publishing Group. The Group is a worldwide media empire offering over 300 magazines in 15 countries, as well as online, TV and radio stations. .

Bauer Media joined the Bauer Media Group in January 2008 following acquisition of Emap plc’s consumer and specialist magazines, radio, TV, online and digital businesses. Collectively, the Group employs some 6,400 people.Bauer Media is a multi-platform UK-based media Group consisting of many companies collected around two main divisions – Magazines and Radio - widely recognised and rewarded as being industry innovators

IPC Media produces over 60 iconic media brands, with print alone reaching almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men – almost 26 million UK adults – while our websites collectively reach over 20 million users every month.

IPC's diverse print and digital portfolio offers something for everyone, with a focus on three core audiences: men, mass market women and upmarket women.

‘Q’ is a bastian for music of

substance- guiding its readers

through just the good stuff in all

forms of music each month via

its unparalleled access and ‘Q’

review, the world’s biggest and

best music guide.

Q IS THE UK’S BIGGEST MUSIC MAGAZINEQ is the ARBITER OF TASTE, standing for music of substance across all platformsQ’s INFLUENCE is unquestioned and its opinions are so TRUSTED that they shape the views of artists and readers alike.Q’s ACCESS is REMARKABLE and UNRIVALLED- Pauls Rees was granted exclusive access to a week’s life on the road with the boss-Bruce Springsteen.Q’s audience is YOUNGER and more AFFLUENT than and other music monthly. **97%*** of readers rate Q as a QUALITY magazine. In research it out performs competitors on measures such as best interviews, writing and AWARD WINNING photography.

• Genre: Alternative music magazine· Frequency: Monthly· Country: UK· Publisher: Bauer Consumer Media(Emap) -1986· Circulation: 94,811· First Issue: October 1986· Price: £3.90· Subscription: 22,798, (19,097 being in the UK and republic of Ireland)

• Audience Profile• Target Audience: For people in their 20s and 30s and the older generation, those who are

looking for a different mode of address, sophisticated people, a magazine which is different to other music magazines in terms of content.

• Q's audience is composed of passionate, engaged and open minded music fans driven to continually discover new music - and to use this lust for discovery to influence their friends. The audience is split 75% male to 25% female and is affluent (with 68% ABC1).

• Awards

LAST YEAR’S Q AWARDS SAW SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY COLLECT THE CLASSIC ALBUM GONG FROM KASABIAN, TAKE THAT REUNITE WITH ROBBIE WILLIAMS TO BAG THE Q HALL OF FAME, AND PLAN B – AHEM – HAWKING THE CEREMONY FOR “GAME BIRDS”.

THIS YEAR’S Q AWARDS, WHICH WILL TAKE ON PLACE ON MONDAY, 24 OCTOBER AT A CENTRAL LONDON VENUE, WILL BE A SIMILARLY STAR-STUDDED DO. THE SAME DEGREES OF ALCOHOL ABUSE

AND GENERAL MADNESS ARE A GIVEN...

This graph represents Q’s readership and circulation from January-June 2001 to July-December 2008

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research on Bauer (Q).xps

Rolling Stone goes beyond just taking

the pulse of youth culture. Rolling

Stone is the pulse of youth culture.

Whether the subject is music, TV, movies or politics—over 12 million young Americans trust and turn to Rolling Stone every two weeks to keep them up on the subjects they care about most. Bold stories. Big interviews. Insightful commentary. All delivered with energy, passion, irreverence and a point of view that defines its audience.

MRI Spring 2011Base: Adults 18+

• Audience (000) • % Comp• Adults 12,162• 100%• Men 7,024• 58%• Women 5,138• 42%• Age 18 to 24 3,483• 30%• Age 25 to 34 3,115• 26%• Age 35 to 44 2,391• 20%• Age 45 to 54 1,751• 14%• Age 55+ 1,422• 12%• Age 18 to 24 6,598• 54%• Age 18 to 49 10,014• 82%• Age 25 to 49 6,532• 54%• Age 25 to 54 7,257• 61%• Median Age 32.2

Rolling Stone magazine was first published on November 9, 1967...In 1967, in San Francisco.The name was inspired by the Dylan'song like a rolling stone

Rolling Stone magazine is published by Global Magazines

Total Circulation (Paid & Verified) 1,453,158

Subscriptions (Paid & Verified)–Paid–Verified

1,373,2181,307,125

66,093

% Subscriptions (Paid & Verified) 94.5%

Newsstand 79,940

% Newsstand 5.5%Bonus Circulation 3,158

% Above Rate Base 0.2%

Single Copy Price $4.99

Basic Subscription Price/1 Year $39.96

Average Subscription Price Per Copy $0.77

Average 1 Year Subscription Price $18.58

% Subs Sold for 12+ Month Duration 52.0 %

% Subs Sold for 13+ Month Duration 8.5%

% Sold With Premium 6.0%

Awards• ECHO Awards, Germany

2006• Got nomination for ECHO Award• Grammy Awards

2006Got nomination for Grammy Award1982

• Got nomination for Grammy Award• Juno Award

1991• Won Juno Award• MTV Video Music Awards

1995• Got nomination for MTV Video Music Award

1994• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1989• Shockwaves NME Award

2009• World Music Awards

2005

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MRI Spring 2011

MRI TwelvePlus 2007

MRI Spring 2011 Base: Adults 18+

Audience (000)

% Comp

Adults 12,162

100%

Men 7,024

58%

Women 5,138

42%

Age 18 to 24 3,483

30%

Age 25 to 34 3,115

26%

Age 35 to 44 2,391

20%

Age 45 to 54 1,751

14%

Age 55+ 1,422

12%

Age 18 to 24 6,598

54%

Age 18 to 49 10,014

82%

Age 25 to 49 6,532

54%

Age 25 to 54 7,257

61%

Median Age 32.2

HHI $100,000+ 3,524

29%

HHI $75,000+ 5,034

41%

HHI $60,000+ 6,483

53%

HHI $50,000+ 7,456

61%

HHI $40,000+ 8,425

69%

HHI $30,000+ 9,493

78%

Median HHI $64,160

IEI $60,000+ 1,966

16%

IEI $50,000+ 2,455

20%

IEI $40,000+ 3,475

29%