The purpose of magazines adverts and digipaks

Artists use magazine adverts to advertise and publicise their latest album, the advert could include a photo of the artist/band, reviews of the album, the record label, the name of the album, songs from the album and of course the release date and where you can purchase it from. Below is an example of a magazine advert for an artist and what it should include.

Digipaks are used for a similar purpose, they also help to promote the artist and they promote the album as well. having a good digipak will encourage people into buying that CD the difference between a person buying and not buying the album will be the way the album looks it has to be interesting and it has to grab the attention of the person in the shop. Below is an example of a Digipak and what it should include.

When it comes to making me own digipak and magazine advert I will need to consider all of the details that are included in the professional examples listed above because all of those different features bring the magazine advert/digipak together to promote the artist or band.