Attitude Industry Context Flashcards
Who publishes Attitude?
Stream media, a horizontally integrated company which specializes in publishing magazines.
What is Attitude Online seen as?
A supplementary component to the Attitude brand
When is the website updated?
Attitude Online is frequently updated by the publishers (main way of making revenue)
Who is the target audience for Attitude magazine?
-Affluent fashion conscious brand loyal men
-Gay male professional in 20s-30s
-Financially prosperous
-Early adopters
-Pride themselves a trendsetter
-Take great care in appearance
What is one of the main reasons Attitude Online exists?
Exists to make money off of click through advertising
What type of publisher is Stream and who is its owner?
Stream is an independant reasonably small magazine publisher owned by Darren Styles who is gay. Due to Stream being small means they can be creative and boundary pushing
Why did Darren Styles by Stream?
He bought it as he felt offering niche LGBTQ magazines was important because there were few at the time
What proves Attitude is so successful?
Attitude so succesful they have a variety of other global print editions each with their own website eg Thai, Belgium & Netherland editions
How does Attitude target a more modern audience?
The attitude website & existence of digital editions for phones & tablets targets a more modern audience who are spending more time on convergent technology
What are Attitudes print circulation figures and website?
Print circulation attracts 50,000 readers, digital edition has a circulation of 12,700
Why does Attitude feature global stories?
A Digital product can be distributed globally so Atittude often features stories about global travel, other cultures & global LGBT issues.
What does Attitude know the power of?
Attitude knows the power of star appeal so uses celebrity based content as much as possible. It has also secured interviews with high profile celebrity’s helping promote digital editions and the website eg Take That, Daniel Radcliffe.
Hesmondhalgh - Minmising risk and maximising profit
-Creating a global edition of the British magazine & website helps to minimise risk
-Stream knew it was already an existing and successful format so copied it for other countries
How does Attitude try to build its brand identity?
Stream runs events such as attitude award to build brand identity among audiences & industry professionals
What might explain the reason Attitude doesn’t offer the option to share content?
Hateful comments on their posts often explain why Attitude don’t offer option to share content from their website - could also be seen as Stream trying to protect readers and people in the articles from hate
How does Attitude broaden it reach to online audiences?
Through there social media channels: Facebook, Instagram and twitter. Every social media post redirects audiences back to the website to help attract high visitor numbers
What do they do to censor content to under 18s?
For more adult related content they sometimes use tools on social media to censor posts to audiences that aren’t 18 (trying to protect younger viewers)
Curran and Seaton - Profit and Power
-Attitude seems to be about giving back to LGBT community (Attitude foundation)
-During the pandemic they ran a pride at home festival over 2 weekends