Overall, all newsbrands saw a decline in readership, with the exception of the Daily Mirror, up 6.6% and the Sun, up 0.4%.
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The latest NRS findings for the national newspaper market reveal that the Financial Times and Sunday Times were the only titles to see any readership growth across the year, as the first-time findings for the Sun (Sunday) show a loss of 314,000 readers.
The latest ABC regional newspaper results paint a familiar picture with both the Regional Groups and Regional Titles down with few seeing any growth at all.
July saw 12.3 million viewers tune in to the Wimbledon Men’s Final to see Murray’s historic win, as the birth of a future king sparked a news battle between ITV and the BBC – one of the rare occasions when the commercial channel came out on top.
In contrast to June’s figures, commercial television channels in July saw an overall rise in yearly revenues, with Total Terrestrial up 12.1% to £145,200,000.
The latest figures for online ABC monitored newsbrands show much healthier results than June, with the guardian.co.uk the only website to see any decline over the month.
Today’s ABC release, for the January to June 2013 period, charts the continuing downward trend for the consumer magazine print market, with just a few exceptions.
22 of the 27 titles record declines across the period as free title John Lewis Edition remains at the top of the Women’s Lifestyle sector, despite a small period-on-period decline of -1.7%.
Zoo and Nuts hit hard in the Men’s Lifestyle sector, as Free titles Shortlist and Sport remain top dogs.
All of the titles in the Women’s Weeklies sector were down year on year, with the highest recorded period growth coming from People’s Friend at just 1.3%.