Capitalising on a Christmas general election, the daily newspaper circulations held steady in December.
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According to agency estimates for November 2019 ITV once again outperformed its rivals, with commercial revenues up by 3.4% year on year.
The entire daily market was down just -0.6% and most titles down marginally on October.
October was a good month for ITV which saw it’s revenues rise by 7% year on year (YoY), bringing its total up to £135.1m
October was a poor month for newspapers, with circulation down almost entirely across the board.
In the dailies market, the Guardian grew its print circulation 1.7% PoP to 130,500, beaten only by the Financial Times, which grew 3.8% to just over 169,000.
Of the twelve newspapers in the UK’s daily market, only two were able to report any growth in sales figures between July and August 2019, with the Sunday market faring only a little better.
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.