
Source Interlink Companies, Inc. is an integrated publishing, media, merchandising, and logistics company. It publishes in print and online magazines; produces radio and television shows; provides content in videos for home entertainment; organizes events to provide engagement and interaction; provides videos and content, such as industry news, interviews, road tests, car reviews, and special events on consumer’s tablets, smartphones, and mobile devices; offers mobile advertising programs; and provides licensing/brand development services through consumer products, radio, television, service licensing, international licensing and content syndication, and promotions. It supplies magazines and books to customers, including mass merchandisers, grocery retailers, C-stores, drug chains, bookstores, club stores, home improvement retailers, and more; offers category management, in-store merchandising, retail display allowance, fixture invoicing, promotion, and planogramming services; produces custom wire fixtures for front-end merchandisers, point-of-purchase (POP) and mainline retail displays; imports and exports periodicals and magazines; operates bookstores; and provides publisher support, including new title launches and title authorizations, distribution allocation and management, expansions for sales opportunities, and promotional planning and execution. It offers creative services, such as advertising design, presentation materials, packaging, Web design, application design, online banner advertising, brochures, photography, video production, POP, posters and banners, licensing concepts, and more. It serves automotive, action sports, marine, home technology, and other markets in the United States and internationally. The company was formerly known as The Source Information Management Company and changed its name to Source Interlink Companies, Inc. in February 2002. Source Interlink Companies, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Bonita Springs, Florida.

Time Inc. is an American New York-based publishing company. It publishes over 90 magazines, most notably its namesake, Time.Other magazines include Sports Illustrated, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Fortune, People, InStyle, Life, Golf Magazine, Southern Living, Essence, This Old House, All You, Real Simple, and Entertainment Weekly. It also owns the UK magazine house Time Inc. UK, whose major titles include What's On TV, NME, Country Life, Marie Claire and InStyle. Time Inc also operates the digital-only titles MyRecipes, TheSnug, and MIMI.
Time Inc. also owns the rights to LIFE, a well-known magazine that has been published in many different formats. Time Inc. currently owns and runs LIFE.com, a website dedicated to news and photography.
This is a good use of research, Marc. However, could you relate this to your chosen genre of magazine and explain how it chooses its audiences? How will this help your research/production?
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