Institutions of magazines

The whole class made a prezi about institutions of magazines. My input to the prezi was the information about Bauer. In total there were four companies we had to research, these were Bauer, Hearst, IPC Media and Conde Nast. Some piece of key information I inputed are what genres of magazine they do, how many employees they have and its sister company, plus more. Here is the prezi

 

The NME magazine was made by IPC MEdia. There is numerous sections of information on the prezi. One of the key fact I found from the IPC Media was that in 2011 IPC Media had to shed their circulation year on year because of decline sales of music magazines NME and Uncut. Also recently Uncut published old NME interviews.

I believe my magazine is mostly mainstream. I believe this because it sticks to all of the common conventions. If a company had to make my magazine it would most likely to be Bauer or even IPC Media as they make mostly mainstream magazines, for example Q and Kerrang.

There are many advantages of using new technology whilst companies make there magazines, for example using the ipad to sell their magazines. This can save paper and trees which most of their audience will support. As if they only had it online they would only have to make one copy instead of hundreds. Also having a magazine on a piece of technology makes it easier to carry, as you can carry numerous magazines without it being really heavy or them getting crushed by luggage. However with that plus there are also negatives, for example K-Composite sell their magazines online only for free. This makes more people buy there magazine instead of others, making companies that make magazines with a price have less sell sales. Running another company out of a business or making a company sell their magazine for less money. Another disadvantage is that a magazine can't run out of battery where as media technology can.