It was a poor period for TV Listings magazines, with only two titles managing an increase.
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.
