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Perhaps with the financial downturn forcing more people to spend time indoors it should be no surprise that some gaming magazines enjoyed growing circulation figures in the July to December ABC release.Uncooked Media’s 360 Gamer grew almost 30% year on year, taking its circulation to 18,000 copies, while Future Publishing’s Playstation Official was up by… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2008:Big circulation increases in gaming sector

Only three titles in the music magazine sector reported year on year rises in the latest ABC release, for July to December 2008 – RWD, Metal Hammer and Classic Rock.RWD has seen phenomenal success this year, up by more than 131% and gaining almost 44,000 copies, taking its total to over 77,000.Future Publishing’s Metal Hammer… Continue reading ABC Results July-Dec 2008: RWD bucks the downward trend in the music market

H Bauer’s Take a Break remains on top of the women’s weekly market, with a total circulation of more than 943,000 copies.The title was down both year on year and period on period, however, by around 6% and 4% respectively.Closer‘s circulation now stands at around 540,000 copies after a period on period upturn of 2.4%,… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2008:Take a Break takes women’s weeklies top spot again

Although the overall trend in the home interest sector was of declining circulations, a couple of titles did manage to show some growth.National Magazine Company’s Coast was up an impressive 14.7% year on year according to the ABC figures for July to December, taking its circulation to more than 42,000 copies.Country Homes & Interiors, published… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2008:Coast makes waves in the home interest sector

All of the titles in the TV Listing Magazines sector have seen year on year circulation declines in the latest ABC release for July to December 2008.However, three of the titles enjoyed period on period rises, including BBC Worldwide’s Radio Times (1.4%), H Bauer’s Total TV Guide (1%) and IPCs TV Times (1.9%).TV Choice remains… Continue reading ABC Results July-Dec 2008:All TV listing titles see circulation declines again this period

Condé Nast’s handbag sized Glamour magazine remains top of the women’s monthly sector in the latest ABC release, for July to December 2008, despite seeing a slight dip of 0.4% year on year, taking it to just below 550,000 copies.However, the new John Lewis in-store free magazine, Source, by John Brown Group, isn’t far behind,… Continue reading ABC Results July-Dec 2008:Glamour stays on top of the women’s monthly sector

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… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2008:Tough times for teen magazines

Daily Newspaper MarketThe national daily newspaper market was down overall by 3.8% year on year in January.There were relatively large year on year declines for the Independent, Daily Record and Daily Mirror, while the Daily Star managed to buck the overall trend. National Newspaper ABC Figures – January 2009 Daily Titles Jan-08 Jan-09 Actual Change… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: January 2009

Buoyed by the increasing financial uncertainty in world markets, January saw free business title City AM‘s distribution figure grow 3.7% year on year to 87,655.The Evening Standard‘s circulation dipped slightly year on year, by around 0.5% to just under 293,000 copies, although it was up month on month.Evening freesheet thelondonpaper remained relatively static year on… Continue reading City AM enjoys year on year growth

BBC Radio 2 continues to have the highest weekly reach of all the national stations at 13.5 million listeners, according to the RAJAR figures for Q4 2008, following a year on year rise of 5%.BBC Radio 1 was not far behind, with 10.5 million listeners, although it was down both year on year and period… Continue reading BBC Radio 2 remains top national station