Your back? I didn't think you'd be back to be honest, not quite sure what to do from here, didn't really plan to get this far...hmm, I mean since your already here I guess I can show you something new. Let me see here *looks through collection of hundreds of drafted blog ideas for the year*, ah here is a good one, lets go over Magazine Types!! So today I'll be discussing magazine types with you, lets begin!!!
There are 3 main types of magazines that most other magazines fall under as sub-categories, today I'll discuss both in ONE blog, enjoy;
CONSUMER MAGAZINES;
Our first type of magazine is consumer magazines, the target audience for these types of magazines are the general public and have the widest readership of the 3 types. Some popular examples of this type of magazine are Vogue, Sports Illustrated, and Reader's Digest, most of which we've mentioned in previous blogs. They are commonly printed on glossy papers and as such are often referred to by people in the publishing world as "glossies".
This type of magazine has many sub-categories/types to it which we can think of as the magazine genre as it is based on the more specific target audience of a publication, we will cover these genres more in depth in future blogs, but for now I will just give a brief overview on the most popular categories/genres;
1. News and General Interest Magazines
2. Cooking Magazines
3. Fashion Magazines
4. Art Magazines
5. Technology Magazines
6. Health Magazines
7. Children's Magazines
8. Business Magazines
9. Travel Magazines
10. Cultural Magazines
11. Automotive Magazines
12. Pet Magazines
13. Sports Magazines
14. Entertainment Magazines
TRADE MAGAZINES;
Next up trade magazines are to made to help keep members of an industry up to date on it, this could include new technologies, practices, techniques, and other related information to the industry/trade.
By now you can guess they are targeting a niche market with these types of magazines and their purpose is to keep this demographic informed on the industry/trade it covers. These types of magazines act as trusted resources within their respective industry demographic.
ORGANIZATION MAGAZINES;
Our last main type of magazine would be organization magazines which fall into 3 sub-types which we can quickly cover;
1. Society
This is an organizational magazine you get these magazines typically if you are a part of an organization, society, or an employee. Their purpose is to keep people informed and to bring people together.
2. Promotional
This is another organizational magazine used as PR tool for organizations. They are typically free and designed with a specified goal or agenda in mind.
3. Product
Finally the last type of organizational magazine would be the product magazine, these are usually supplied after a purchase or used to advertise certain products.
So in summary organizational magazines are any types of magazines that are used to bring people in organizations informed and together. Be used as a PR tool for organizations, or be used for products and to advertise products, which you may think of as the organization of the people who buy the product, at least that's how I think of it. Now we've officially covered all 3 main magazine types.
As always I hope you learned something new, the next blog we'll cover will be on the sub-categories or genres of the consumer magazine type, it's 14 in total and I'd greatly enjoy to cover them all, so I hope you get excited for that!!
Thanks for Reading!!
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*Magazine Information
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