Thursday, 10 March 2011

Research into Magazines genres

 



This is GameInFormer. This magazine is about the genre of gaming. This magazine focuses and tries to get the attention of the male/female audience but mainly focuses of the male gender beacuse the males are more interested in gaming than females.This magazine is targeted at teenagers and above in my opinion. GameInFormer was first launched in August 1991.
GameInFormer is owned and published by GameStop Corp. GameStop is the world’s largest video game and entertainment software retailer. The company operates more than 6,500 retail stores worldwide.


This is O magazine. This magazine fits perfectly into the lifestyle magazine genre. This magazine is very famous because it is targeted at black females,but is open and can to any gender any age. O magazine was first published on April 19, 2000 and As of June 2004, its average paid circulation was over 2.7 million copies, two thirds by subscription.The oprah magazine is an monthly magazine founded by oprah winfrey and hearst corporation.




this is Match magazine. This magazine fits into the sports genre as it is a sports magazine.This magazine is targeted at younger children ages ranging from 8+. It was first published in 1979,the original editor was Mel Bagnall. Match is run by a company called Bauer Media Group




This is NME(New Musical Express) a music magazine targeted at a more older audience, published weekly since March 1952. it is more of a 'punk rock' magazine and it now edited by its 11th editor Krissi Murison.




This magazien is called Fashion and is targeted mainly at women 18 and above. First published by St. Joseph Media,  Established in 1977. Fashion is a Canadian fashion magazine. Fashion publishes 10 issues a year and has a total readership of 1.85 million.



This is a motorbike magazine called superBike and it aimed at both genders and aimed at people who are interested in motor bikes.
The magazine generally features a mix of bike and product tests, some technical features, long term test bike reports as well as race features from WSB, BSB and MotoGP racing.



olive is a modern food magazine published by BBC Worldwide. It was launched in 2003. It is mainly targeted at people who like to cook regradless of gender.The magazine features BBC chefs and broadcasters including MasterChef's John Torode and Sheila Dillon from BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme