Magazine Analysis

Seventeen Magazine

• The average reading age for this magazine is about 11 years old
• For every page, there is an advertisement page to go with it. The advertisements center around fashion, music, and TV shows that young girls would find interesting.
• Two other students at my table had magazines that catered to people of ages from 20 - 30 years old. The magazines were ESPN and Atlantic, clearly for people of an older age. Another student had an Atlantic magazine and his reading level was 13, so I guess it depends on the subject content. My magazine is clearly geared towards a younger audience.
• Seventeen magazine target audience- 11 to 18 years old (ages most interested in pop culture of this genre), female, elementary/middle school reading level, however older ages still are interested in the content, interested in current fashions and famous people, materialistic and of the middle or upper class.