Objective: The focus of this bachelor thesis is to study what a selection of magazine readers think generates value on the reading experience of a traditional lifestyle magazine. Furthermore create an deeper understanding of these values.  Method: Qualitative interviews was used as the method to investigate the participants' view of the user experience when reading a lifestyle magazine paper. Seven interviews were conducted with people who prefer the traditional newspaper.  Results: The results of this study show that it may be to early to talk about the print magazines dead. The physical and mental feeling that appear from reading a lifestyle paper magazine is almost impossible to implement in the digital version. Our results show that some of the underlying causes that lead to a the choise of the print magazine depends on the structure, the reading experience and the qualitative content that appears to be difficult to emulate on the web.

The Master's Thesis deals with the marketing research of the body image meaning in female and male life style magazines chosen. The main aim is to analyze the advertisement using the quantitative content analysis and to identify the most common elements presented, furthermore to analyse these elements based on the data obtained and to find out the difference of human body presented when female and male are the target groups. The secondary aim is defined as to prepare this analysis for the front-page of magazines chosen as well. The thesis is divided to several parts. The first part deals with the basic theoretical background of marketing communication focused on daily press, next section concentrates on the body image issue and self body feeling. The nature of practical section is the content analysis evaluation, summary of data obtained and drawing a conclusion together with marketing suggestion.