Although the TV listings market remains in decline year-on-year (YoY), the market saw some titles record positive growth during the second half of 2018, no doubt helped by the Christmas period.
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The worst hit title in the women’s lifestyle market was Hearst’s Cosmopolitan, recording a fall in circulation of -20.5% period-on-period and a -31.6% decrease year-on-year.
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.
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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.
By offloading lower-end tasks back to the client it frees the agency to work on the much more important, bigger picture stuff.
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Adspend will swing back towards brand-building media in the near future and advertisers can expect to pay a premium for it, industry experts have said.
