Magazine Publishers

Bauer Media Group Publisher

Bauer publishing was first founded in 1875 in Germany. It first entered the UK in 1987 with the launch of Bella magazine and under the name of H Bauer became Britain's third largest publisher that includes women's weekly and TV listings magazines, this includes, Bella, Take A Break, that's life! TV Choice and Total TVGuide as well as a range of puzzle magazines.
Bauer media is a multi-platform group with locations stretching among the UK, since 2007 the Bauer media group has required a vast collection mass media brands such as, heat and Grazia as well as radio brands such as KISS FM UK and Magic and other regional radio brands across the UK's major cities. It has also been associated with music magazines such as Q, Karrang! and MOJO. This publisher is hugely popular reaching over 19 million UK adults every week.

i-D individual publisher 

i-D magazine was first founded by designer and former Vogue art director Terry Jones in 1980. It has mostly been an individually self published magazine and hasn't been apart of any major publishing companies mostly partnering with other magazine companies. In 1984, Tony Elliot from Time Out magazine became a publishing partner with 51% share of the company and later acquired total control of the company in 2004. It was then acquired by VICE magazine in 2012, also a self publishing magazine. Because of their similarities and partnership I have chose to study and look at i-D and VICE magazine as their magazine layout and themes are aspects I would like to include in my own magazine. 

Taking this into consideration I would like my own magazine to be self published with perhaps a partnership with a similar magazine. This is because I prefer the idea of being able to be more free with my own magazine and having it self led instead of having to meet certain criteria's of a publishing company. I think this also helps with the magazine having individuality and not being mass produced to lose quality and uniqueness.