2. What the survey included
I created a survey on Survey Monkey in order to do some audience
research. I had 26 responds to my survey in which I asked:
• What is your gender
• What is your age
• What type of magazines do you read
• What is your favorite genre of music
• What do you think a magazine should include
• What is your favorite thing about your favorite magazine
3. Gender
• Most of the
participants were
female which was
my main target
audience for the
magazine I am
aiming to make.
4. Age
• I attempted to get
a range of people
different ages to
complete my
survey by sharing it
on Facebook and
Twitter, however
most participants
were 16-23 years
old. This is also
within my target
audience age range
as well as 7-15 year
olds.
5. Magazine Genre
The most popular
genre of magazine is
gossip and sports.
However music is
still one of the
popular genres as
shown by the
percentage.
6. Music Genre
• Clearly the most
popular genre of
music is pop (hence
the name standing for
popular music). This
shows that there is a
large demand for pop
music magazines, so if
I was to make a pop
magazine it would be
successful.
7. What they think a magazine should
include
• Free stuff, buyers guide a real understanding of what the readership want and would be useful to
them
• excellent photography, informative articles based on real life stories
• Interesting facts and advice
• Competitions
• Exclusive Interviews
• No large texts
• Colourful pictures
• Music top charts
• Fashion Ideas
• Celebs
• Recent music trends
• Up to date content and information
• Latest trends, top buys, best deals
• Gossip
• Human interest stories
• All genres of what it's about and introducing new people/ things to look out for
• useful information Interactive articles
• Interesting articles
• stories, adverts
• Variety
• jokes, stories
8. What their favorite magazines include
• Reviews
• Up to date information
• Fact files
• Latest trends
• Quotes
• Lots of pictures
• Colour scheme
• Hot or not music
• Not repetitive- changes every time
• Not too many adverts
• Gossip
• Finding out new things
• Clear layout
• Good presentation
• Quizzes
• Celebs lifestyle
• Variety of different content
• Advice
9. Conclusions
Music is a popular magazine genre and the most popular genre of music to base
my magazine on would be pop. Therefor my initial idea for a mainly female target
audience based pop magazine would be successful as shown by the results of my
survey. My magazine needs to include interactive articles with facts and advice to
effetely entertain the audience so they enjoy my magazine. Also no large
quantities of block text must be used and lots of interesting pictures need to be
included to keep the attention of my teen target audience maintained.
