Monday 14 March 2016

Evaluation question 3 DRAFT

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

There are many distribution companies that distribute music magazines, these include Bauer Media Group, Time Inc., IPC and many others. I think that Bauer Media Group would distribute my magazine as they are a worldwide media empire offering over 300 magazines in 15 countries as well as online, TV and radio stations. 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. Bauer published magazine such as Q, Kerrang! and Heat. These magazines are all indie and associate their magazine around the same age group as I have. However, IPC could be a good distributor as they have a large range of experience within the publishing and distribution of many categorised magazines, also certainly the experience and knowledge of publishing a music magazine with related topics and genres to my magazine which would be entering the same market. These also distributed NME, which is a magazine based around the same style as my magazine. I was inspirited to use internal/external advertisement and promotion as a way to gain my production company funding by a large range of other magazine producers such as Loud and Quiet, Clash magazine, ID magazine, Dazed and Confused & Fader magazine. Looking at the type of magazines Bauer Media Group is associated with, I feel I would most likely make the publication of the magazine monthly, similar to Q as it is distributed through paid circulation and sold monthly via subscription or could be bought in specific music type stores. I would like my magazine to do the same as it could mean it becomes as big as Q magazine, which is a hit music magazine around the world.




The money for production and publishing of the RE-WIRED magazine would be funded from advertisement and promotion of other internal and external, such as advertisement for multiple gigs around the country and the ones that seem the most popular. This would benefit them as they are gaining potential customers through reading my magazine each month. This would also create a cycle as the money gained from promoting events could be spent on producing and distributing my magazine around the country.

1 comment:

  1. Add detail about the types of shops they'd be able to stock your magazine in as well as how they might distribute your work digitally

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