Immediate Media

By Simone Davidson

The brands that immediate media produce

History

We create compelling content on platforms that enhances the way people engage with what they love. That’s at the heart of what we do and what drives us as we shape our portfolio of special interest brands.

Immediate Media Co is an award-winning special interest content and platform company. We are one of the biggest consumer media businesses in the UK and the third largest magazine publisher.

Quality is our No.1 objective. Every month we reach multi-million highly educated people and over one million active subscribers. People read our content across more than 75 brands in print, on digital platforms, and beyond. 

To create category leading brands, we employ 1,100 dedicated and talented staff at our offices in London, Bristol and Manchester.

We sell over 70 million magazines every year and reach 33 million unique users every month. 

We combine our reputation for editorial quality with an integrated approach to delivering multi-platform content. Our vision for turning special interests into lifelong passions to create valuable brands puts us in a strong position to build for the future.

Top of the pops

BBC Top of the Pops Magazine, the UK’s biggest selling teen magazine, celebrates the release of its 250th issue today, Wednesday 21st May. The landmark issue includes birthday celebrations with a host of pop stars including The Vamps; Top of the Pop’s latest intern Joey Essex joins the team for some work experience; Britain’s Got Talent’s teen sensation Bailey McConnell on his new-found fame; and One Direction on the cover.

The magazine is also hosting a special 250th issue gig on Wednesday 21st May featuring M.A.D, Fright Club TV, 2012 Britain’s Got Talent finalists Loveable Rogues, The X Factor’s Sam Callahan and four-piece girl band Neon Jungle, in front of a live audience of 160 Top of the Pops Magazine readers who won free ticket for the event. The gig is hosted by CBBC’s Aiden Davis will be streamed live on sugarscape.com from 6pm.

BBC Music magazine

BBC Music Magazine is the world’s best selling classical music magazine and is the most comprehensive monthly guide to the world of classical music – live, broadcast and recorded. It is packed full of information and inspiring features on all aspects of classical music and is read by an engaged, informed audience of affluent, upmarket culture.

BBC Music Magazine is published by Immediate Media Company London Limited under licence from BBC Worldwide who help fund new BBC programmes.

Readership: 232K

Circulation: 40.8K

Actively Purchased: 56% 

Subscriptions: 70%

Market Share: 100% (Classical Music Market)

Average Age: 41

ABC1′s: 62%

AB’s: 37%

Male: 56%

Female: 44%