Information on Magazine Publishers

TimeInc.com

TimeInc. is an American New York-based publishing company that is owned by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden which started up in 1922. TimeInc. publishes over 90 magazines this is a high percentage of magazines to publish. Mostly notably it's namesake, Time. Other magazines include Sports illustrated, Travel+Leisure, Food and Wine, Fortune, People, InStyle, Life, Golf magazine, Southern Living, Essence, This old House, All you, Real simple and Entertainment weekly. It also owns the UK magazine house TimeInc.uk, whose major titles include Whats on TV, NME, Country life. Time Inc also operates the digital-only titles like MyRecipes, Thesung and  Mimi.There digital properties include more than 50 websites reaching a massive 120 million monthly digital visitors, 1 billion user-instated video streams, and a social footprint of 146 million. Shockingly nearly half U.S adults engage with TimeInc. brand each mouth.  

TimeInc.com would be a good company to publish my magazine as it published NME which is a very wide bought music magazine. Also it has a massive amount if readers and my magazine it's more likely to do well with a poplar publishing company. I would also like my magazine to be multi media and TimeInc. have massive figures when it comes to websites, video streams and social media.

Beuer

Beuer media group is a large European-based large media company that manages a portfolio of more than a massive 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations all around the world. Beuer publishes magazines like Women's weekly, TV listing magazines: namely Bella, Take a Break, that's Life! TV choice and Total TV Guide, this is as well as a number of puzzle magazines. Beuer media is a multi-platform media group. Beuer acquires a collection of media brands including Heat and Grazia as well as Kiss FM UK and Magic. Beuer's target market from most music magazines and music basted products is 18/25 for both females and males.

 Beuer publishes the popular music magazines Q and Kerrang and has also helped them to become a multi media brands. Beuer Media Group has a 50% stake in the British television company Box television, the over half is owned by channel 4. Box television acts as the content subsidiary that produces several popular music television channels, which include;

                                                  -The Box
                                                  -4Music
                                                  -Heat
                                                  -Kerrang!
                                                  -Kiss
                                                  -Magic
                                                 -Smash Hits

Beuer publish a wide range of music magazine and radio programs this publishing company would help my magazine to become multi media. Also they do a lot of music based stuff which would benefit my magazine a lot. The magazine I want to make will fit to Q's target market. A lot of Beuer's publishing products and media product match the target market I would like my magazine to be basted around. So my magazine would benefit from Beuer's company as my target audience would already be reading, listening and watching one of Beuer's products.

Future PLC

Future PLC is a media company. In 2006, it was ranked as the sixth-largest media corporation in the United Kingdom. It publishes more than 30 magazines in fields such as video games, technology,   

 film, photography and sport. Future is the official magazine company of two out of the three major games console manufactures. Future currently has a UK on-line audience of 8m monthly users across it's network. Future publish magazines such as Rhythm, Film, Music radar, Guitarist, SFX, Total guitar, Future music and many more. Future's game portfolio has a global reach of over 14.6 million.

Future publishes have millions of people that read the magazines they publishes and they have a very big on-line audience especially when it comes to gaming. I don't thing they publish enough music magazine for my magazine to be published by them.