1. What kind of media institution might distribute
your media product and why?
2. I think that a media institution such as Bauer
media group (http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/),
that is responsible for publishing and distributing
magazines such as Q and KERRANG, might
distribute my music magazine. Bauer media
group are hugely successful and have a portfolio of
influential media brands that includes many of
the best known magazines in the UK. The
institution already publishes music magazines
that contain similar content to my
magazine(Quake). This could mean that they
would be interested in publishing Quake,
although they might see Quake as competition for
the music magazines that they already publish.
For this reason they may not want to publish my
magazine in case it causes any conflict or issues to
arise. I would hope that this would not be the
case, as my target audience is very different from
the mature men Q magazine is aimed at. Quake is
also not really focused on the kind of 'hardcore'
rock that KERRANG is, and so I would say that my
magazine has its own place, fitting somewhere
between the 2.