Kylie Barrows
10/28/12

Journalism

 

 

 

After reading and collecting the data from SEVENTEEN magazine I came to the conclusion that this magazine consist a normal ratio of ads to articles. This actually surprised me because most girl magazines consist of mostly ads for products. In 100 words there was only 7 sentences and 145 syllables. For every 2 ads there was an article, 2:1 ratio. The ratio says the producers of this magazine want enough ads to make money but yet still keep your attention to the articles.  After using the graph to figure out what age group is targeted I was shocked to find out the age group. The target audience age is 15. Kind of weird considering the name of the magazine is called SEVENTEEN.  Seventeen is directed to girls mostly I don’t think any guy would choose this magazine to read in their spare time. I always thought this particular magazine was targeted to teenagers 17 and older. Everyone else I compared answers with they also said their target of age group is 15, both boys and girls. SEVENTEEN actually stands out unlike most other girl magazines that consists of more than half ads.