Our Music & Movies portfolio comprises:
Music-Making & Listening
Future is the largest publisher of guitar magazines in the world and the biggest music-making publisher in both the US and the UK.
Guitar World continues to maintain its leadership position as the world’s biggest guitar magazine. In 2009 we successfully launched Guitar Aficionado in North America, the first magazine to cater to a high-end reader in a lifestyle editorial format.
In the UK, Guitarist celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2009 and recorded its highest ever circulation: its sixth consecutive increase. Rhythm maintained its position as the UK’s number one drumming magazine throughout the year.
Musicradar.com continues to grow and now attracts 2.5 million page views a month, providing news, reviews, tutorials and a community for music-makers. Guitarworld.com is also going from strength to strength. Already attracting over 300,000 monthly unique users, guitarworld.com’s tabs feature enables guitarists to access official guitar transcriptions online, an industry first. Through our partnership with Comcast, Guitar World TV is available in 14 million homes.
Future’s music-listening portfolio comprises Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Revolver. Classic Rock recorded its seventh consecutive circulation increase in the last full year ABCs and now outperforms weekly music newspaper, NME. Metal Hammer, which like Classic Rock now outsells Kerrang! by circulation, had a huge 2009 with Editor Alexander Milas winning the prestigious PPA Editor of the Year award. Metal Hammer also won Best Entertainment Cover at the 2010 Maggie Awards.
Metal Hammer’s Golden Gods Awards drew over 100,000 votes and went fully international as Revolver hosted the inaugural US version of the show in Los Angeles. Classic Rock honoured Iggy Pop as 2009’s ‘Living Legend’ at the Classic Rock Awards.
- Classic Rock
- Classic Prog
- Computer Music
- Future Music
- Guitarist
- Guitar Techniques
- Metal Hammer
- Rhythm
- Total Guitar
- Guitar Aficionado
- Guitar World
- Guitar World Legends
- Revolver
- Classic Rock Roll of Honour
- Metal Hammer Golden Gods
- Classic Rock Tours
- Classic Rock High Voltage Festival
- Hammerfest
- Metal Hammer Live Tours
- Revolver: 2010 Rockstar
- Energy Mayhem Festival
- Revolver: Golden Gods Awards
- Revolver: Metal Masters
Film
Future is the UK’s leading film magazine publisher with a strong portfolio of magazines, specials, events and websites. We produce over 4.5 million magazines a month and generate over 6 million monthly page impressions across our web properties.
Total Film is the flagship brand in a group of titles that includes SKY Movies, the world’s largest movie magazine, ODEON Magazine, DVD & Blu-ray Review and SFX. We manage these titles under the banner Future First for Film which gives us a unique position delivering multi-platform campaigns to influential film fans throughout the full product lifecycle of a film, from early buzz thorough to DVD release.
Last year we partnered with SKY Movies and Odeon Cinemas to launch The Total Film Red Carpet Preview event across 11 cinemas in the UK. It was the first event of its kind, allowing film fans to get early and exclusive insight into films in production and meet some of their on-screen heroes. Following this, Total Film has gone on to launch the Total Film Red Carpet Screening Club, which enables thousands of readers to preview films exclusively before their release date.
Totalfilm.com has been redesigned in the last year and see an uplift in traffic to 450,000 unique visitors a month.
Following its redesign last year, DVD & Blu-ray Review remains the sector leader for home entertainment and the only magazine dedicated to covering Blu-ray and the rapid development of high-definition technologies and software for the home.
SFX, the world’s number one sci-fi and fantasy title, continues to increase sector share and broaden its reach online and offline through its links with major sci-fi shows, launching the SFX Weekender event and developing online. The SFX Specials have also relaunched in a new format and sales are up over 40%.
- DVD & Blu-ray Review
- ODEON
- SFX
- SFX Collection
- SKY Movies
- Total Film
- Comic Heroes
