The daily newspaper market is down -8.3% on May 2011, with just one title posting an increase over the year. i continues to see its circulation rise – the title is up 64.3% on this time last year.

The quality titles, both the dailies and Sundays, were the biggest losers in readership terms in the latest NRS release for April 2011 to March 2012 (the first release of 2012 data).

Most of the UK’s national newspaper sites enjoyed an increase in traffic in April, with all but one of the audited sites posting a rise in unique browsers, according to ABC.

The release of the April’s traffic figures also saw the launch of Hybrid data from UKOM; as well as the home and work panel that has been used to collate pre-April 2012 data, the company now measures traffic from ‘other locations’.

The daily newspaper market is down -7.6% on April 2011, with just one title posting an increase over the year. i continues to see its circulation rise. The title is up 68.6% on this time last year (it released its first ABC figure in January 2011). Postively, a number of titles saw their circulation figures… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: April 2012

Today’s ABC release confirms the significant uplift of Saturday newspaper editions, as ABC reports a Monday-Friday and Saturday split for the first time.

Most of the UK’s national newspaper sites saw a drop in traffic over March with all but one of the audited sites losing unique browsers, according to ABC.

The UK’s online population once again passed the 40 million mark with a total of 40.3 million users making up the digital audience in March.

The daily newspaper market is down -7.4% on March 2011, with just one title posting an increase over the year. i continues to see its circulation rise. The title is up 59.7% on this time last year (it released its first ABC figure in January 2011). Postively, a number of titles saw their circulation figures increase PoP.

The UK’s national newspaper websites saw usage figures increase in February, with almost all audited sites recording a rise, with the exception of Mirror Group Digital and MailOnline.Mirror Group Digital recorded a -25% decline – down by more than 220,810 daily average unique browsers, despite re-launching in February. The drop has been attributed to the… Continue reading ABC February 2012: Mirror Group posts 25% fall in web traffic