Bauer Media is a multi-platform UK-based media group and is Europe's largest privately owned publishing group. It was founded in 1875 and is based in Hamburg, Germany. The company manages more than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio/TV stations around the world. Some of the top brands in the UK that they manage publishing for are Kerrang!, Q and Mojo. 

Time Inc UK previously known as IPC Media - international publishing corporation was founded in 1968 and is based in London. They are a consumer magazine and digital publisher, selling over 350 million copies each year. Some of the top brands they publish are NME and Uncut.

Narrow magazines with specialist appeals are likely to be published by independent publishers. An example of this is Shindig! magazine which focuses on 60/70s music and covers other things such as fashion, art, architecture, tv and film. It is independently published by Volcano Publishing and the magazine achieves a circulation of 26,000. 82% of its readers are in the ABC1 category. 83% of it's readership are men and a small 17% are women.