February may have had its hottest day on record this year, but it was a considerably cooler month for newspaper circulation – all markets recorded declines and no title was able to record any period-on-period (PoP) growth.
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January was a good month for broadcasters, with only ITV breakfast recording a dip in year on year revenue.
The second half of 2018 again saw widespread declines across the women’s weeklies market, however six titles managed to record period-on-period (PoP) growth.
Once again RHS Media’s The Garden leads the home interest magazine market, with a total circulation of just over 439,000.
The Sunday market performed well in January and was up 0.6% overall. Six titles recorded sales growth from December, led by the Mail on Sunday with +2.2% – an additional 22,200 copies to reach more than a million sales.
December was a tough month for broadcaster, with only Channel 4 and ITV breakfast seeing television revenues increase year on year
The daily national newspaper market overall remained steady in the last month of 2018, recording a negligible period-on-period (PoP) change of -0.2%.
Channel 4 improved on previous year’s revenue by over 11%, with ITV only showing a slight dip of 0.1% for November 2018
For the third consecutive month, both the daily and Sunday national newspaper markets have recorded period on period (PoP) declines, down -0.6% and -1.3%, respectively.
According to the latest agency estimates, ITV’s October revenues are down -5.2% with total revenues having dropped from £133m to £126m year-on-year.