Friday, 2 October 2015

Task 2: XXL media kit from 2008


Based on the media kit, we can see that the average age to purchase this magazine is 29 year old’s. The highest percentage of ages to purchase the magazine is 25-29 years old’s. Also, there is more percentage of men that buy the magazine copy than women, which makes sense based on XXLs genre being rap, which stereotypically, is listened to more by men than women. Also, due to the genre being rap, the percentage of the highest race that reads the magazine is African-Americans. XXL are published by Townsquare Media started being the magazines publisher in 2014. The company is based in the U.S with over 310 radio stations in 66 markets. They also have the reputation of being the third largest am/fm company in Connecticut. 

1 comment:

  1. Good work Iptihal, you have some very useful detail to both your case studies and have included media kit analysis which has clearly been useful as you link to audience and genre well throughout your analysis. The Vibe analysis is a little more detailed. Both magazines have two contents pages, it would be useful to look at both, especially for XXL with A side and B side.. Also XXL DPS analysis is fine, but a little vague on language and style and also be aware that the entire feature is more than one DPS - there would be several spreads. (Go back and look!) FInally consider the link between images and coverlines/text and indeed images and text on contents and DPS.

    Overall good work though, well done.
    Amy

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