Informtion on Magazine Publishers

Bauer

Bauer is a large European media group situated in Hamburg, Germany. Heinz Bauer is the owner of the company but his daughter, Yvonne, is the chief executive, taking the majority of control over the company at his father’s wishes. The company has been managed by 5 generations of the Bauer family and the entered the UK publishing market in 1987 with a women’s weekly, Bella.

Bauer own and run over 238 magazines in 15 countries including the music magazines Q which is now not only a music magazine but a radio station and a television channel. They also produced Kerrang magazine which, like Q, has become a radio station and television channel.

Bauer also publish popular women’s weeklies such as take a break and Closer, along with a film magazine Empire which is now published in 5 other countries including the USA and Portugal. As well as these genres Bauer publish motorcycle and car magazines not forgetting their men’s weekly ZOO.

Bauer media have also recently launched a digital, online voucher service called dabbl, a multi-platform product. They also have a 50% stake in the company box television which run lots of music television channels including 4Music, Kiss and Magic; some of these channels are also available as radio stations.

Overall Bauer has around a 50% owning of the magazine industry, with all of their magazines having social media pages such as twitter and Facebook accounts, increasing their online presence along with their official websites or pages within Bauer websites.

Future PLC

Future PLC was founded in 1985 In Somerset, England by Chris Anderson, in 2006 it was ranked as the 6^th largest media corporation in the UK with over 200 print publications, apps, websites and events.

They have a website which offers all of their magazines for sale which from a musical perspective include total guitar a monthly magazine based in the UK first published in 1994 which is Europe’s best selling guitar magazine. They also own Rhythm, a monthly drum and percussion magazine, the leading UK drum magazine.

Future PLC have recently launched a bookazine series for its technology portfolio of which a digital copy will be available free with each copy. These bookazine’s offer guides and how tos in fields including mobile phones, operating systems and business creation schemes.

Their popular gaming magazine ‘PC gamer’ hit recording breaking growth with not only page views up 64% but up 93% mobile page views as well, showing popularity on multiple platforms. These Games magazines included official brand magazines Xbox and play station, two rival consoles.

Their film magazines include SFX and total film, the latter of which has social media pages on Facebook, twitter and tumblr; there is also a total film forum which has been online since 2004 and has some loyal regular users. The focus of future plc, according to one of their websites myfavouritemagazines.co.uk, is consumer technology, games, entertainment, music and photography. In a month, their websites collaboratively receive over 57 million users.

Time Inc. UK (IPC Media)

Time Inc. (know previously as IPC Media) is the leading publisher of digital and print magazine content in Britain. Globally, they have a monthly audience of over 120 million people from their print services; they also reach an audience of another 120 million through their digital properties, which include over 50 websites.

IPC Media was formed in 1963 as the parent company of all business interests of Fleetway, Odhams, and Newnes (all media companies at the time). It then became Time Inc. UK in 2014 after its purchase by Time Inc. in 1998.

They also host events which received collectively ‘hundreds of thousands’ of people. These events included fortune most powerful women summit, this celebrated women in powerful positions across the globe, and got them together to make connections with other female leaders.

Time Inc. UK own the music magazine NME, who have deep roots in the English music industry although their sales are falling recently with their current circulation at just over 15,000, a ludicrously low number considering their past success. They now plan to make the magazine free in order to save it from completely dying.

They also publish sport and fitness magazines such a cycling weekly, which although down 3.8% in circulation in 2011 to 27,406. It dropped again towards the end of 2014 down 9.7% to 25,135.

Some of their other magazine brands include Horse & Hound, TIME magazine and centurion, all of which have an accompanying website for reader information and subscription.