The latest ABC consumer magazine figures reveal a mixed picture in the home interest sector, with about half of the titles in our round-up recording circulation increases in the Jul-Dec period.
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It was a tale of two business models in the men’s lifestyle sector, with free titles taking up the top two positions once again.
H Bauer Publishing’s Take A Break remained on top of the women’s weekly magazine market for the six months to the end of December, and although it suffered a 4.6% year on year fall in circulation, its total still stands at around 900,000 copies.
The latest ABC consumer magazines release, for July to December 2009, shows that Condé Nast’s Glamour is once again top of the women’s monthly sector.
BT has reported a 39% increase in pre-tax profits for the three quarters to the end of December 2009, although shares were down as it announced a £9 billion pension deficit.
ITV1’s Midsomer Murders returned with a high of more than 6.5 million viewers during the peak-slot last night.
A new media sales business, Mean Broadcast, has been set up by John de Napoli, and Damon Letzer, formerly of Enteraction TV and Turner Networks.
This week has seen the sale of GMG’s regional titles to Trinity Mirror and the forced sale of some of BSkyB’s stake in ITV. Raymond Snoddy comments on the “sadness and eloquence” of the deals.
Associated Newspapers’ revenues were down 12% year in year in Q4 2009 to £280 million.
Google is set to start adding social media features to Gmail under the name of Google Buzz.
