TOP 100 INDIAN MAGAZINE COVERS from the year 2016
“A book cannot be judged by its cover while a magazine is always judged by its cover… hence, covers are critical for magazines.”
Releasing soon- TOP 100 COVERS we liked from the past year that were released in India.
Judging parameters for the ‘TOP 100 INDIAN MAGAZINE COVERS’ are considered by the panel of honorary judges –
Visual, Cover Headline, Typography, Copy, Appearance, Production Treatment (Matte, Spot UV, Foiling etc), Fixed Elements (Masthead, Time line, Price, Bar code, QR code etc), Special Elements (Peel out stickers, Badges, Offers, Announcements etc).
First round of shortlisting the cover is completed…300 out of 5000+ covers are on the table.
Releasing soon- TOP 100 COVERS we liked from the past year that were released in India.
TOP 100 MAGAZINE COVERS FROM 2013
(click on ‘Left’ image for the 100 covers and click on ‘Right’ for the detailed reports, useful insights & key findings of this unique study of 5000+ covers and 400+ Indian magazines)
Digital edition of ‘TOP 100 COVERS’ story & reports based upon the study on 5000+ front covers of 400+ magazines-
1. Main Story – TOP 100 COVERS (2000 words + relevant images for the representation purpose) consisting-
- Newsstand buyers’ buying trends
- What is that makes a cover successful
- Science behind the making great covers
- Who’s responsible for the front covers
- Parameters of judging a cover
- Images of covers
2. Magazines that are consistent and most disciplined in making their covers
(900 words) consisting-
- Discipline in using main visuals
- Consistency in highlighting main cover stories
- Handling too much text on the cover
- Colour consistency
- Mastering the tricks of Mast Head
3. Magazines that need to define their personality
(950 words) consisting-
- Understanding the importance of personality
- How a magazine can create its brand image
- Risks of not having a personality of a magazine
- Names of magazines that need to work on their personality
- How to check if your magazine needs to define its personality
4. Genres that need understand the importance of making good covers
(900 words) consisting-
- Poor business for some magazines: Is it their fate or our fault?
- Some magazines need to improve their standard of covers
- Consumer/Newsstand based magazines
- B2B magazines
- Popular genre of magazines
- Close competitor magazines
- Hindi language magazines
5. Genres that produce better covers in comparison to others
(440 words) consisting-
- Most of the covers look same from one genre
- Producing good covers is habit of magazines from these genres
6. Best practices / trends followed by the TOP 100 COVERS
(1260 words) consisting-
- Recipe for the great covers
- Issue specific perspective of cover making
- Brand perspective of cover making
- Genre perspective of cover making
- Universal Best practices of cover making
- Top key words for the main cover stories
- Our rules, our trends of cover making
- What kind of stories are there on the covers
- Average number of stories appeared on the covers
- Most used colours on the covers
- People photography trends on the covers
7. Cover face of the year
(300 words) consisting-
- Male cover face of the year
- Female cover face of the year
8. Gems & Trivia from the study of TOP 100 COVERS from the past year
(400 words)
- 20 interesting observations & insights from the study of TOP 100 COVERS
