They are distributed by being made available to passers-by at locations such as restaurants, cafes, bars, clubs, live music venues, community centres and record stores.
Street press publications are usually also more professional in appearance and composition than zines, with established business structures and relatively mainstream content.
Street press publications tend to have more mainstream, broad-appeal subject matter than zines so they can attract sponsors, and increase readership.
Street press publications can cover a wide variety of topics, many are focused upon specific subject matter of a target audience.
Community newspapers, delivered to households, usually weekly, which consist primarily of localised news, do not fall into this category.