Media Institutions

Magazines are produced by institutions which are companies that produce, market and distribute texts.
There are two main music magazine publishers in the UK:

This produces magazines such as
Kerrang!
Q
Mojo
The company was founded in 1875 and has been privately owned by the Bauer family themselves.
It's headquarters is in Hamburg, Germany and it is operated in 16 different countries worldwide meaning that 38 million magazines are produced each week.
Bauer publishing started up in the UK in 1987 when they launched Bella magazines and from then on Bauer publishing became the third largest publishing house in the UK. Also, for further expansion within the UK, Bauer bought Emap Consumer Media as well as Emap Radio back in 2008 and this had the publishing house on track to being the biggest publishers in the UK.




Originally called International Publishing Corporation, IPC publishes magazines such as NME and Uncut and sells of 350 million copies each year. The headquarters are based in London and the publishing house was founded in 1958, when it was dominated by a group of companies that fought against one another for market shares within an extremely competitive marketplace.
In 1998 the company was renamed IPC and the company was then sold to Times inc.
In April 2012, IPC won an aware for "Best Production Team" from the Professional Publishers Association Production and Environment Awards.

"As the UK's leading consumer magazine publisher we engage with 26m UK adults - almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men. Our award winning portfolio of websites reaches over 25 million users globally every month."

For my own magazine I would like to use one of these institutions because they produce similar magazines with the same sort of house styles to my own magazine. Also, each magazine they produce sells really well and this will mean that they will be able to sell a magazine such as mine, where the genre is Indie/Rock instantly.