To gain more of an understanding of the public’s opinions on magazines and music taste, I set up a seven question survey in order to see what the public think. I created my survey using surveymonkey.com and I got 17 responses by asking people on social networking site in an effort to get a diverse range of answers. Here is the survey that I created, I think the questions I asked and the feedback I received will be very helpful for the production of my magazine.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2L5KRCN

Question 1100% of the people who took my survey are between the age of 14-20. Despite me not getting a range of answers, this was very helpful for me because 14-20 is my target age range for my magazine.

Question 23 people out of the 17 answered that they like Pop Music, 13 out of the 17 answered that they like Rock Music, and I had the one remaining person answer ‘Other’ and state that ‘Punk’ is their favourite genre of music. I think these set of results are better than my first question because of the more varied range of answers. Also, most people answered that Rock is their favourite, which is my magazine genre.

Question 313 people out of the 17 said that they do purchase music magazines, and the remaining 4 people said that they don’t buy them.

Question 4

The 13 people who answered this question all said that their favourite music magazine is one that is of the Rock Music genre. The most popular answer was Kerrang with 9 answers out of 13, Rock Sound got 2 answers out of 13, and both NME and Big Cheese got 1 answer each out of 13.

Question 5

This question was especially useful because it showed me what people in my target audience range would want to see in a magazine. The least popular answer was ‘Review of Shows’ with 5 answers out of 17 and the most popular answer was ‘Interviews with Artists’ with 15 answers out of 17. I now have a better idea of what to include in my magazine because I can see here what people are wanting to see more than other features.

Question 6The results were very close for this question. You can see that more people prefer to buy a new magazine every week than every month. As I was wanting my publication to be a monthly thing, my target age range refer to have something new more often.

Question 7I put my top three Masthead ideas at the end of the survey to see which name the survey takers thought was the best. As I chose Crowd Surf for my final name, I was hoping that the public would like it; and they did. This gave me more faith in my name idea because people preferred it over the other two. I also liked power chord the least, and this was how the results turned out, so I think this was very helpful.

I feel that my survey was very helpful and has made me gain more of an understanding of what my target age range think about magazines. I now know not to include some of the features that I wanted to put in, I know that my chosen name works and appeals to people and I know that the majority of magazines that are bought are Rock Magazines. I am very happy with my feedback and it has really helped me.