AUDIENCE RESPONSE

I have completed surveys assessing my audiences prefer-ability's.
My audience my music magazine will be attracting is between the ages of 16 to 25 and are of a fun loving culture, therefore my magazine must also fit the brief by fitting and complying to a mass market demographic. This mass market suggests the magazine must be relevance and appeal to various people, upon different lifestyles and preferences.

Something i will need to ensure if that my website is digitally convergent to my physical media magazine, this is because it has been reported a fifth of those between the age group of 16-24 spend more than seven hours on their phone a day. This means they might use both my web page and also physical magazine.

I have conducted some audience research to identify and help me ensure my magazine appeals to numerous people.

I have asked these questions to 15 individuals of which fit into my target audience and the responses, to the questions asked, I have received are as follows:

1. WHATS YOUR MOST USED FORM OF SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM?

Instagram :  8

Snapchat : 5

Facebook : 2


2. FAVOURITE MUSIC GENRE?

Rap/ R n B : 5
Pop : 7

Other - 3

3. PREFERRED MUSIC MAGAZINE NAME?

Clique : 2
Snap : 3
Badge : 10

OVERALL ANSWERS

1. Instagram

2. Pop

3. Badge

MUSIC MAGAZINE

I have done more research into entertainment magazines as a whole and have decided I would like to venture into focusing on music magazines. Here shows music category comes under the idea of entertainment.

Here is an already existing music magazine, this is an example of billboard magazine. 

This is a magazine branding devoted to music, they cover different genres covering a range of different artists. They stand as one of the oldest magazines around in the world. Frequently published weekly since the first issue in 1894, they are very a very successful magazine as they attract more than 4 million visitors each month. They are a known and unrivalled magazine focusing and covering the issues, trends and latest news of music. A magazine focusing on pop culture appealing with very individual eye-catching photoshoots and individuals used in these.

Another existing music magazine is NME, this is an music based magazine. NME stands for New Musical Express, it is British music journalism and the first ever British paper to include single charts in 1952. It was distributed nationally as free publication and in 2016 they had an average circulation of 307,217 copies a week. In 2018 The Guardian ceased publication after 66 years and is simply online publication only.

COMPARRISON

Here are the generic areas of a magazine and how both of them are reflected through NME and billboard magazines. From both of the covers I have figured out both of these exact covers don't have prices or barcodes on them, an additional thing they both don't have on them is a website copy. 

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