Only three of 17 titles in the women’s lifestyle magazine market managed to record any period-on-period circulation growth during the first six months of the year.
Britain remains a nation of gardeners, it seems, with Immediate Media’s BBC Gardeners’ World recording double-digit growth in the first half of 2019.
Suffering from the post-Christmas decline, no title in the TV listings market was able to record growth in the first half of 2019.
Continuing the narrative of decline in the women’s weeklies market, the latest ABC circulation figures for the first half of 2019 did not paint a pretty picture.
The Economist remains the UK’s best-selling news and current affairs title according to the latest ABC figures – holding steady with its circulation, despite a price rise in March.
Hearst’s Men’s Health magazine now leads the men’s lifestyle market, following the death of freebie mag ShortList late last year.
The daily market had another tough month, with only two titles bucking the overall downward circulation trend. The Financial Times performed best, increasing by 3.8% in June.
The latest cross-platform audience figures reveal an almost universal decline in print readership across the sector, though many titles are successfully offsetting those declines with growing digital reach.
The latest cross-platform audience figures for UK newsbrands show a growth in readership on the whole – although print reach was down unanimously across the market.
The worst performing title was – perhaps surprisingly – the second most popular paper, the Sun. The red top was down -5%, dropping 68,000 copies on April.