TIME Inc. Case Study

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Time Inc. has clearly found its success in utilizing both internal and external secondary data in order to help launch new magazines and special issues. As was mentioned in the case reading, the success of the special edition of People magazine paying tribute to the late singer Selena was essential in prompting Time Inc. to release People en Espanol. By analyzing their own internal secondary data related to the Hispanic market, statistics, and details, which became available from the successful special edition of Time, they were able to tap into a market which had gone unnoticed- but was very much a part of the American fabric. Time Inc. also used external data in conjunction with the statistics they already had on hand from their own internal sources, in order to launch other successful new magazines. It would not be possible for Time Inc. to find the success they did with magazines such as Your Diet, or Suede, without using external sources of secondary data to analyze trends in culture and demographics. The primary step in analyzing data during their exploratory research phase u...

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