MagazinesThe magazine industry's

Size, shape and structure and description of the Magazine industry in the UK

The magazine industry is quite big s it has about 2,681 business in the UK and the revenue is about £6bn per year. Publishing is made up of a diverse group of industries including: Books, Directories and Mailing Lists, Journals, Magazines and Business Media, Newspapers, News Agencies and other Information Services.

VogueIs an American fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 23 national and regional editions by Conde Nast that has a total circulation 1,315,304. Vogue means “in style” in French. It’s aimed at fashion every month they publish. The owner is Conde Nast they age range is aimed around 20+ and above. Conde Nast also own and publicised other magazines they do:Fashion and Lifestyle:*W *Glamour *Allure *Self *Teen Vogue *GQ *Details *Lucky *Style.com/printHome:*Architectural digestBridal:*BridesGolf:*Golf digest *Golf worldFood:*Bon Appetit *Epicurious *Gourmet liveTravel:*Conde Nast Traveller *ConciergeTechnology:*Wired *Ars TechnicaCulture:*Vanity Fair *The New YorkerTrade:*WWD *Footwear NewsIt all together produces 18 consumer magazines it has 27 websites and has more than 50 apps for mobiles and tablets.

Kerrang!Is a UK-based magazine devoted to Rock music published by Bauer Media group. Circulation is 42,077. The founder is Alan Lewis first issue at 6th June 1981 published weekly. The publisher Bauer Media group industries in publishing and broadcasting is a multinational media company headquartered in Hamburg Germany which operates in 16 countries around the world. Worldwide circulation of Bauer Media group’s magazines titles amounts to 38 million magazines a week. They also publish Bella, Take a Break and That’s life! And TV listings titles. Bauer Media brands Q magazine and Kerrang. Bauer has a 50% stake in the British Company BOX television the other half owned by Channel 4, which also includes:*4Music *The BOX *Heat *Kerrang *Kiss *Magic *Smash Hits

MadIs an American humour magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman. The circulation is 175,000-2,100,000. They do comics and can be to all age range they also do about lifestyle, entertainment and politics. The owner DC comics publications in comics and is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American Comic books. The parents company of DC comics are Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Time Warner. Warner Bros Entertainment it was founded at 1918. It’s an American producer of film, television and music entertainment it’s also subsidiary with Time Warner which is an multinational media corporation. It was the world’s second largest media and entertainment conglomerate in terms of revenue (behined the Walt Disney Company), The Time Warner also has divisions in HBO, Turner, Broadcasting System, Inc Warner Bros and Time Inc.

Other magazines platforms

Magazines has different platforms such as websites, apps ect which this leads to an advantage of having more buyers but also more media interest as many people today don’t even buy magazines they buy through apps on ipads, blackberrys and many other technology mostly on the internet.

Advertising on magazinesAdvertisement that you see on the magazines pays and helps supports the magazine company to publish as the magazines gets money from the advertisements and no other way also they get money from the customers who purchases the magazines but it don’t make much of a profit alone from it as paper and printing costs a big amount of the money to the company.