Teenage magazines suffered heavily this period, with all titles posting significant year on year circulation declines.
The latest ABC release shows a stellar performance from magazines in the Home Interest sector, with all titles seeing an increase in circulation compared with this time last year.
It is a tale of two business models in the Men’s Lifestyle sector, with free titles taking up the top two positions once again, while paid-for titles struggle to keep the pace.
It was a mixed period for the Women’s Weekly magazine sector. Like most other sectors, some titles did exceptionally well while others struggled to maintain their circulations in a post-recession market.
Condé Nast’s Glamour still tops the Women’s Monthly sector with a total circulation of more than 526,000 copies, despite seeing no change over the year.
BC figures for January to June 2010 represent a fairly mixed overview of the consumer magazine market.
The UK’s online universe has seen a drop in size for the second month in a row. According to data released by UKOM, there were 38.4 million people online over the month of June, a drop of over 2 million people since April.
June was a pretty poor month for the daily national newspaper market according to the latest ABC figures, as it recorded an overall decline of 6.5% year on year.
UKOM data for May 2010 reveals that seven of the UK’s top ten sites saw a drop in users.
ABCe data for May 2010 shows that the Mail Online was once again the most popular UK newspaper website, with a daily average unique browser figure of almost 2.4 million.
