About

Welcome to the Inspire Labs blog – the blog for IPC Media Inspire Digital!

IPC Media is a world-renouned magazine publisher for titles including NME, Marie Claire, Nuts, Web User and Now Magazine. In total, IPC covers around 80 magazines that are distributed around the world.

That’s enough about IPC Media, so what the heck is Inspire Digital? Inspire is a division within IPC Media that covers the country and leisure brands. Inspire Digital are the people that bring you this blog, and the websites for the ~50 titles under the IPC Inspire portfolio. That includes Country Life, Trusted Reviews, Horse and Hound, Web User, YBW, and many more. We’re a busy bunch.

The Inspire Digital team consists of 20 people made up of front and back-end developers and a dedicated designer, sysadmin, test analyst and product management team. Quite obviously, our biggest challenge is being able to spare the resource and time to be able to push the many creative and innovative ideas we have out to our brands with such a scary product:team-size ratio.

We don’t claim to be the best of the best. We don’t claim our websites are the best of the best. However, we’re a creative bunch (team building exercises don’t lie) and our goal is to continuously improve, impress and inspire across the entire portfolio. We’re always looking to improve the usability, design and, in particular, the performance of our products which are rapidly growing in popularity every month.

This blog will be used to publicise our achievements and will allow anyone who cares to see what we’re working on and be a part of the Inspire evolution!

Inspire — gettin’ it in the done hole