The magazine industry is a huge market that is only getting bigger. In 2014 there was 210 new magazine launches. The top selling magazine in the UK is TV Choice selling 1,276,045 single newsstand copies and made a profit of £18 million. From my observation it seems that 6/10 of the top selling magazines are 'Women's Weeklies/Monthlies' whilst majority of the rest are 'TV Listings'. This could imply that the industry believes that woman have more free time on their hands and are probably seen as house wives and full time mothers. This also shows that majority of the population buy magazines to gather information about TV schedules. But it also implies that middle aged woman like to read about celebrity gossip and learn new household tips which are usually featured in these types of magazines.
In 2015, the UK made 151 million retail copy sales with a value of £282 million. This proves that the industry is still profitable in today's society even though we seem to depend more on technology now then what we did 10 years ago. However the industry is evolving to suit today's society, especially music magazines. The most popular and highest selling music magazine in the UK is 'Q'. But to remain as the highest selling music magazine, 'Q' has had to adapt in order to fit in with present day. Evidence of this would be their multi-platforms. 'Q' has an online edition of the magazine to gain more readers as well as a website and many social network accounts like: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Pinterest. This makes it easier to connect with their readers but also to gain more readers as more people use social network to find information about their bands and artists.
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