Designing a New Magazine Aimed at Teenage Boys
I was briefed to design a new magazine aimed at teenage boys, as they
are a notoriously hard group to target. They have a disposable income
and so are very appealing to advertisers combine this with the fact
that they are a seemingly impossible group to widely reach to they are
a golden fleece to advertisers. There are very few magazines aimed
exclusively at the teenage boys age group, as they do not buy general
interest magazines, and are more likely to just buy magazines about
their hobbies like bikes, movies etc. Recently 2 magazines, Nuts and
Zoo, have been launched targeting the teenage boys audience and have
done quite well. I decided to research Nuts before I designed my own
magazine.
Nuts was launched in 2004 and since then has built up quite a large
readership for a weekly magazine. With a circulation of 275,459 and a
readership of 1,174,000 it seems to have effectively targeted the
teenage boy market. It is published by IPC media, who also publish
Loaded, Pick Me Up and Wallpaper magazines. At the time I am writing
this the cover story for Nuts is “Street Strip: real girls get their
kit off”. From this I can see that it uses informal language to talk
to the reader, and foes not patronize of look down on them. It appeals
to the high hormone levels of teenage boys, with soft core pornography
and erotic letters. The layout is BIG titles, lots of pictures and
bright colour’s, a very basic, but effective way of grasping the
reader’s attention. By studying this magazine I decided that my own
magazine should not be highbrow, and should appeal to the inner
caveman of every man or boy.
When I started to create my magazine, the first thing I had to do was
think of a name. I went through several options, but eventually
decided upon BVN, a name which is easy to remember, but isn’t clichéd
like Nugget or Locked. For a cover story I decided to go with an
Harper’s magazine to be not only convincing, but also easy to relate to and truthful. The
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