Evaluation - Insitutions

My magazine is similar to Top of the Pops magazine – due to it being about mainstream music.
It is published by BBC Magazines. BBC Magazines is the magazine publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. BBC Magazines is the UK’s 4th largest magazine publisher. In terms of revenue it is the 3rd largest. It is the UK’s number one publisher for subscription magazines. BBC magazines is a worldwide publisher of magazines, it has 43 licensed editions of magazines in over 55 countries.
The Official BBC Magazines website (http://www.bbcmagazines.com/) (http://www.bbcmagazines.com/content/magazines/topofthepops/) describes Top of The Pops magazine as:
“Looking for shocking celeb scandal plus loads of cool stuff all about you? Then get your hands on Top Of The Pops Magazine, the UK's best-selling teen gossip mag.

Every issue is packed with amazing star gossip, plus hot fashion and beauty advice, sexy lads, and side-splitting cringes. Take a personality quiz to find out more about yourself, check your horoscope, sing along to our songwords, or simply pop an exclusive poster on your bedroom wall.”

Although Top Of The Pops magazine is similar to mine, our target audiences are slightly different, mine is for a more mature “teen” audience whereas Top Of The Pops magazine is for a younger teen audience, you can tell this by the type of language they use to describe their magazine.
My magazine is similar to NME magazine – due to them having similar target audiences.

NME is published and distributed by IPC media. They are owned by Time Inc, who is owned by Time Warner: Time Warner is the world’s second largest entertainment conglomerate revenue wise and the world’s largest media conglomerate. IPC media is the UKs leading consumer magazine publisher, there have produce over 85 magazine and their magazines are read by nearly 27 million people in the UK and they have online branches which reach to almost 20 million monthly users. They focus on five core audiences: mass market women, upmarket women, leisure and specialist, men and television.

http://www.nme.com/
http://www.ipcmedia.com/
http://www.timeinc.com/home/
http://www.timewarner.com/

NME and my own magazine are similar in the way that we have the same target audiences but my magazine features different music genres so therefore the articles and pictures for example will not be the same as mine will be aimed more at a mainstream audience.