ABC Consumer Jan-Jun 2009: Teenage

It was a hard six months for the teen magazine sector, although some titles managed to weather the storm better than others.

Hachette Filipacchi’s Sugar was top of the sector with a total circulation of over 153,500 copies.

However, it was down year on year by around 2.5% and period on period by around 3% according to the latest ABC figures for July to December 2008.

Top of The Pops dipped slightly year on year, by 0.6%, although it was up period on period by 3.5%, to take its total circulation to just over 125,500 copies.

There were notable year on year declines for Bliss and Mizz, falling 30% and 18% respectively.

Mizz now has a circulation of around 58,000, while Bliss‘ rests at 90,767.

Shout, meanwhile, shed around 5.4% of its circulation year on year, leaving its total at just under 82,000 copies.

There was better news for Kiss though, which reported a January to December ABC figure of 22,759 copies, up 6.2% year on year.