Publishing
room501’s key objective has always been to help our clients create unique, compelling, beautifully designed and ultimately useful publications. We always establish a close working relationship with our clients with the ultimate aim of creating publications that reflect the true nature of their business. We design attractive and contemporary publications that are matched to your requirements – and to those of your readers.
Our Magazines
BQ Magazine
BQ (Business Quarter) is a stimulating quarterly business magazine. Providing the inside track on what drives the North East’s leading businesses, business people and entrepreneurs, BQ offers a unique and refreshing mix of business news, commentary from leading business people and profiles of our most inspirational entrepreneurs. With an inspirational attitude, BQ aims to get to the heart and soul of our most successful business people to find out what drives, inspires and motivates them towards their ambitions.
Each quarter BQ also brings you a wealth of business intelligence and information, whilst looking ahead to forthcoming events and reporting on recent developments that will have a significant impact on the North East business landscape. BQ is no ordinary business publication.
With unique content and a style determinedly its own, its aim is to inspire, enlighten and empower, embracing and reporting North East business success wherever it is found.
Luxe Magazine
Luxe is the region’s newest and finest downtime magazine celebrating the best things about life in the North East. It’s the one you want to open. We promise it won’t be a case of ‘flick-through-and-forget’. No, this is the publication that settles you into the sofa for an indulgent read that’s relevant to your life.
Relevant because in our pages you’ll see people you know, places you go and a lifestyle that reflects your own, be it through food, homes, fashion or socialising. All, we guarantee, delivered with bags of charm, style and personality. It’s also a select club. luxe has an exclusive reader profile, delivered to carefully-chosen homes in the North East. So that people who need to know about it are reading it. luxe is your new best friend, guide and expert. The people who make the magazine live the magazine, just like you. Be assured, we have an eye on all the things you love to do and make it our business to be the first to tell you about new places, happenings and experiences.
The luxe team features some of the region’s most influential lifestyle journalists, well-known columnists and experts bringing you the insider trend know-how on everything from eating out to fashion, food, interiors, travel and business.
FQ Magazine
The North East today enjoys one of the most diverse and exciting food and drink scenes anywhere in the UK. From field to fork, nowhere can boast higher quality produce coming from the land, from artisan food producers or out of the kitchens of our restaurants.
We, the public, have never been more interested in where our food comes from and under what conditions it is produced. We frequent farmers markets and farm shops and put our supermarkets under pressure to stock food from local producers and food that puts animal welfare and taste before price and appearance.
And so we bring you FQ, Food Quarter. Some of the region’s leading food and drink writers will bring you a snapshot of what the season has to offer in terms of great produce, and recipes that will help you make the best of it. We’ll give you the inside track on what is happening at the very best eateries in the region, whether it be the best bacon sandwich we have ever experienced or a symphonic five-courser from a Michelin starred chef. We’ll reveal the region’s hidden gems and celebrate its stars. Our view will be determinedly local but we’ll also bring you news we consider worthy of your attention from further afield.
Hitched Magazine
It means months, even years, of planning, shopping, choosing, sharing and above all, anticipating. Where can you begin to get a handle on organising what is without question the best day of your life? No pressure there. Take a deep breath. Here at hitched we think we’ve cracked it. We love weddings too – but we also love helping couples make it their own. Think of the hitched team as your very own wedding planners – unofficial best men and women. The hitched team can guide you on everything from the etiquette of the smartest wedding to the best ideas for organising a totally alternative ‘us’ day which doesn’t tick any of the boxes marked ordinary.
We’ve teamed up with the best suppliers, venues, event managers and planners to be able to offer you a spectacularly comprehensive guide to weddings in the North East. Each edition of hitched will also offer you the wise words of real life couples who share their own wedding day experiences – we know you’ll love seeing how it worked out for others – even borrow a few ideas. Supported by superb photography and editorial throughout, 10,000 copies will be available to pick up free of charge across the region from wedding fairs (including UK Wedding Shows and Elite Wedding Fairs), department stores, bridal shops, florists, venue’s etc and will also be available on-line.
The link for the magazine will be emailed to 3000 brides, grooms and civil partners in the North East with a direct link from your on-line advert to your own website. When North East couples are looking to book their wedding hitched will provide them with a comprehensive choice of services across the region. Here at room501 we believe hitched can steer them in the right direction by offering the readers current and concise information about their wedding. You’re so safe in our hands it’s untrue. And though we know it’s a serious business this wedding stuff, we reckon it has to be about love, fun, passion and pleasure along the way. So our mag will help you enjoy the journey. Remember, it’s all about the love stuff.
Narc. Magazine
NARC. is a tabloid sized monthly music magazine, distributed free of charge across the North East. NARC. is fresh and unique to the area in format, content and aesthetic. Focusing primarily on the music scene in the region, featuring international to local level bands, artists and DJ’s. NARC. also provides reviews and commentary on the wider arts including film and literature, featuring original writing and photography throughout. NARC. is at the forefront of the local music scene, hosting regular live events. NARC. is a challenging perspective in the North East and offers a stamp of originality and credibility to any brand associated with the magazine.
NARC. is targeted at 16-35 year olds with specific interests in music and the arts, entertainment and socialising. NARC. provides this switched-on, aware and affluent demographic with an innovative and exciting publication featuring news, in-depth articles, opinions, extensive reviews and gig listings. 6,000 copies of NARC. are distributed free of charge to specifically targeted venues, universities/colleges, pubs, clubs, cinemas, galleries, shops and boutiques across the North East. The magazine also has a strong, interactive online presence. NARC. offers advertisers the benefit of a publication which is continually referred to over the course of the month, enjoying an average of six readers per issue – that’s an estimated readership of 24,000 per month. With emphasis placed on building a strong and ongoing relationship with these readers, NARC. offers a direct and unrivalled route to this highly profitable audience.