Magazine Research: Genre

To kick off looking into magazines, I started off looking at their genres. Genres are a way of categorizing magazines. Each genre uses specific connotations such as colour and images to appeal to a certain audience. I have a listed different genres and a magazine for each below that I have brainstormed with my peers in class.

Fashion ~ Cosmopolitan
Music ~ Rolling Stones
Sport ~ Golf Digest
Gaming ~ XBOX 360
Travel ~ Travel
Gardening ~ Gardeners' World
Wildlife ~ BBC Wildlife
Lifestyle ~ Good Housekeeping
Weddings ~ Brides
Education ~ TES
Jobs ~ Job Finder
Cars ~ Car
Technology ~ PCZONE
Entertainment ~ Empire
Cooking ~ BBC Good Food
Craft ~ Paper Craft
Teen ~ Teen Vogue
Children ~ Beano
Adult ~ Zoo
Sci-Fi ~ SciFi Now
Consumer help ~Which?
Gossip ~ Heat
News ~ Time
Mens Interest ~Mens Health
Fitness ~Women's Health
Beauty and Health ~ Boots Health & Beauty

Almost all of these magazine genres are available in different retail stores depending on the genre. Such as Boots Health & Beauty will only be available in Boots. Supermarkets aren't likely to stock specialist magazines and stick the the general ones with the wider audiences. The target audiences for specialist magazines are basically people who like or are interested in what that genre specializes in. Whereas the more general genres such as Gossip and News, are more likely to have a target audience based on either age or gender or even both. Such as Gossip magazines target audience are mostly women and News magazines target audience are mostly people of an older and more mature age.