magazine competition

TimeOut magazine
Genre: Music
Content: Covers different events and entertainment from around the world.
Style: Quite simple to make everything clear and easy to read.
Distribution: free publication with a weekly readership of 307,700. Handed out at tube stations.

XXL
Genre: Hip-hop
Content: Covers different parts of the hip hop industry for example new up and coming rappers and exclusives from established world renowned rappers.
Style: red and black colour scheme. Uses lots of images to attract readers attention
Distribution: Online subscription or found in stores in the US as it is a US based magazine.

The Source
Genre: Music, Sports, Entertainment, culture, style and more
Content: The music section of The Source covers recent stories and news in the hip-hop and rap industry.
Style: Uses quite bland colours but colourful snap shots of videos and images to use as links to the full stories so readers are more appealed to it.
Distribution: Online subscription.

HipHop Weekly
Genre: Music, specifically the rap scene
Content: current stories and coverage of relevant rappers. Exclusives and deep dived information into how songs are made etc.
Style: Large masthead to attract attention and then lots of subtitles on the front page so readers can see what they are buying.
Distribution: Online subscription but also magazine is sold mainly in the US.

The Fader
Genre: Music
Content: current stories in the rap world for example J.Coles new single
Style: web page that shows different interesting stories that then show similar stories if you click on the first one
Distribution: Online subscription to a daily newsletter.