Magazine Institutions

A magazine institution are the companies that fund and create the music magazines that consumers read. 

The four main magazine institutions are: BBC - Emap – IPC Media - Bauer

IPC Media 

IPC Media (International Publishing Company) is a consumer magazine and a digital publisher founded in 1958 in the United Kingdom, it has a large portfolio and sells over 350 million copies each year. It supplies magazines and newspapers such as NME, Look, TV Times, Pick Me Up and Marie Claire. www.ipcmedia.com 

Bauer Media Group

Is a large German publishing company based in Hamburg, which operates in 15 countries worldwide. Since the company was founded in 1875, it has been privately-owned and under management by the Bauer family. The Music Magazine this publisher provides are Q, MOJO and KERRANG. All three are advertised on their website as being men's magazine.

Emap

Emap was the second largest magazine publisher in the UK with about 18% of the news-stand market by revenue (to IPC/Time Warner's 20%). However in July 2007, the company announced a strategic review. The result was that the company was split up and sold off in December. It's consumer magazines and radio arm, including Kiss and Magic, went to Bauer for £1.14 billion - making the German magazine publisher the largest in Britian. 

BBC

BBC magazine is the magazine publishing arm of the BBC worldwide. BBC provides a varied and wide range of magazines that target many different audiences. They focus their magazines on music, gardening, children’s popular TV programmes, cooking, cars and astrology.

The music magazines that the BBC has published include:
Its Hot - Top of The Pops - Classical Music Magazine
The BBC publishes many different genres of magazines as well as major websites through their digital channels as well. There are only a few magazines that are of the same genre. Top of the Pops attracts age ranges from 11 up to 15 years due to the content, music articles such as ‘Glee’ and ‘X Factor’





My Magazine - BBC Magazines would probably publish my magazine the best as my magazine is aimed for the Pop genre for the younger generations, which is what the BBC publishes shown above, with music articles on things like 'X Factor' and 'Glee'