Genre - Genre is a particular category in which something falls e.g a book a film or a magazine. It is helpful for the audience to be able to choose what they would prefer to read especially with music, for example there is many different genres; pop,rock and indie.

sub-genre - Sub-genre is a division within genre for example books you have thrillers as the main genre and then crime thrillers as the sub-genre.




Hybrid-genre - this is combing two different genres together this then means there will be elements of both. For example magazines that look at both music ad fashion, or gossip and fashion.