Thursday 26 November 2015

Music Magazine Institutions: Bauer - Research


Music Magazine Institutions Research


The company is Europe’s largest magazine publishers and market leader; it has a presence in a total of 20 countries. The company offers over 300 magazines worldwide, online, on TV and radio stations. The company is UK based and consists of two divisions: magazine and radio.

The company was founded in 1875 and during the start of the 20th century, Bauer is one of the first companies ever to publish a free advertising paper in Germany: the Rothenburfsorter Zeitung. The magazine progress throughout the years, in the 1970s formed the women’s weeklie’s segments with the magazines tina and bella. During the 1980s and 1990s the magazine expanded to include shares in the private television broadcaster RTL II, the private radio station Radio Hamburg and also working with Magdeburger Volksstimme which is the largest daily newspaper in northern Saxony-Anhalt. In the 1990s, the company adapted well to the development of digitalisation. The company extended their articles to the Internet and also established cross-media brand families. This link between printed and digital media continues to increase. The company has a really good target group with competence, and it demonstrates in the competitive markets with its successful groundbreaking magazine concepts can be. The new magazines are appealing to both the young and trend-conscious target market group. Their publications include magazines like Close and InTouch and InTouch weekly. Other brands include Cosmopolitan, Joy and Shape in Germany or Elle and Harper’s BAZZAAR in Australia, are other magazines that Bauer is interested in.
Music publications they are involved include magazines like Q and Kerrang, which are widely popular with people these days.

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