Media Institutions

Bauer Media

Bauer Media Group is a large European based media company that manages a portfolio of magazines, digital products, radio and TV stations in local markets across the world.

Bauer Media Group started off as a small printing house in Germany, Bauer then entered the UK under the name of H Bauer publishing and launched Bella magazine in 1987, since then Bauer have continued to grow and in 2012 made a turnover of more than €2 billion. To this day Bauer Media UK reaches over 22 million UK consumers every week through a portfolio of world-class, multi-platform media and entertainment brands including heat, Kiss, Grazia, Empire, Magic and Absolute Radio.

Bauer Media Group has a 50% stake in the British television company Box Television, the other half owned by Channel 4. Box Television acts as the content subsidiary that produces several popular music television channels, which include: 4Music,The Box, Heat, Kerrang!, Kiss, Magic and Smash Hits

Magazine Brands of Bauer

Bauer Media Group own and create a variety of different and popular magazines in all different genres and brands which help Bauer become the massive business they are today. Bauer currently have 20 different brands of which are published in the UK ranging from Music, Entertainment and motorcycling to Football, Equine and Gardening.

Bauer’s Music Magazines

Bauer create the music magazine ‘Q’, the UK’s biggest selling music monthly magazine, the Q brand has developed a worldwide reputation as a trusted and premium quality voice of musical authority amongst fans, musicians and the music industry alike - one that is founded upon Q's unrivalled access, world-beating exclusives and outstanding production values. Q sells 52,781 magazines a month.

Bauer also create the music magazine ‘MOJO’, ‘MOJO’ is the world’s largest UK music magazine, delivering a monthly dose of world class journalism and iconic photography to an audience of extremely passionate music consumers. ‘MOJO’ magazine sells 94,600 magazines a month and currently has 211,000 readership with the mean age of the readers being 37 years of age with 66% of those being in the audience code A,B,C 1.

Immediate Media Co.

Immediate Media Co is an award-winning special interest content and platform company. Immediate Media are one of the biggest consumer media businesses in the UK and the third largest magazine publisher.

Immediate Media was founded when private equity house Exponent merged media business Magicalia with Origin Publishing and a portfolio of BBC magazine titles bought for £121m in 2011. Immediate Media has 36 websites, 58 magazines and more than 70 brands reaching 25m people a month. It has more than 1m subscribers and its titles include the Radio Times and BBC’s Gardeners’ World. Tom Bureau, 45, became chief executive after the merger, and raised profits to £13.8m in 2013.

Magazine brands of Immediate

Immediate have a vast variety of magazine brands ranging from Travel, Food and Lifestyle to Music, Science and TV magazines. Immediate currently have 14 different brands of magazines in which they publish which helps them to reach and attain their wide-scale audience in which they have achieved through there multiple magazine brands.

Immediate’s Music Magazines

‘BBC Music Magazine’, BBC Music Magazine is the world’s best selling classical music magazine and is the most comprehensive monthly guide to the world of classical music – live, broadcast and recorded. It is packed full of information and inspiring features on all aspects of classical music and is read by an engaged, informed audience of affluent, upmarket culture.

‘Top Of The Pops’, BBC Top Of The Pops Magazine is the biggest-selling teen lifestyle title in the market, focusing on self discovery, self expression and the world of celebrities. Featuring the latest fashion and beauty, star gossip, real life stories and celebrity advice, the magazine brings readers exclusive and exciting content every four weeks.

TimeInc.Uk

Time Inc. UK is Britain’s leading publisher of print and digital magazine content, with more than 60 iconic brands -including Decanter, Country Life, Horse & Hound, NME, What's On TV and Wallpaper* - Time Inc. UK (formerly IPC Media) creates content for multiple platforms, across print, online, mobile, tablets and experiences.

Magazine brands of TimeInc.UK

‘TimeInc.Uk’ have over 60 iconic magazine brands that captivate the nation- this is what allows ‘TimeInc.UK’ to reach 55% of all women in the UK and over half of all mums as well as 1 in every 2 people in the audience code Super AB’s.

‘TimeInc.UK’s brands vary from TV and Country magazines to Shooting and Music magazines – helping them achieve their wide-scale audience.

TimeInc.UK’s Music Magazines

NME is at the forefront of music culture – setting agendas, instigating debate and championing exciting artists of all genres. The NME Awards/Shows & Tour are some of the most important events in the UK music calendar and have been instrumental in launching the careers of some of the biggest acts in the world; including Arctic Monkeys, The Killers and Florence + The Machine. The complete portfolio of NME live events are attended by some 215,000 music fans annually.

‘UNCUT’, The home of great, timeless rock music. ‘UNCUT’ readers spend£792 on music and £300 on DVDS per year – this is over twice the amount a year than the average adult. Uncut pioneered cover mounted CDs curated by stars – Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and Paul Weller have all collaborated with Uncut. Uncut has been twice voted the PPA (Professional Publishers Association) Magazine of the Year and the PPA International Magazine of the Year.

EMAP

EMAP owns industry-leading brands that sit at the heart of business powerful B2B communities like Retail, Health, Construction, Architecture, and Fashion. Always independent, relentlessly inquisitive, EMAP embodies quality, market-leading journalism. We act as the ultimate industry insider, and strive to always be the trusted authority. EMAP provides the best possible way to connect with their world.

Magazine Brands of EMAP

EMAP currently have 16 different magazine brands which they are currently publishing. These magazine brands range from Retail magazines such as ‘RetailWeek’ and ‘Drapers’ as well as Health magazines such as ‘HSJ’ and ‘NursingTimes.Net, EMAP also have a selection of construction magazines these are: ‘ConstructionNews’, ‘NCE’ and ‘GroundEngineering’.