Inflation remains just above the Government’s target rate, according to the latest official figures. The Office for National Statistics said underlying inflation for January remained unchanged at 2.6%, as against the target of 2.5%. The Retail Prices Index for January was 163.4, a 2.4% increase in January 1998 but 0.6% lower than December 1998.The headline… Continue reading Inflation Hovers Above Chancellor’s Target
1998 brought a drop in both circulation and readership across the national press market. Total circulation dropped by 2.4% throughout last year, an actual fall of 677,824 sales. Currently the total circulation of all of the national press titles listed here is 27.28 million. The popular papers lost the greatest sales overall as a sector.… Continue reading National Press Market Round-Up – 1998
The latest audit for www.sky.co.uk, covering November 1998, has shown a 30% increase in traffic for the site. During November sky.co.uk recorded 9.5 million page impressions according to the ABC //electronic audit. “Sky.co.uk is now a major content site which we will drive to greater heights in the coming months,” says Paul Wright, commercial manager… Continue reading Sky Website Records Traffic Increases
The Independent today launched a new 12-page pull-out sports supplement, Sport. This is to be followed on Wednesday by a new stand-alone 16-page business section. Both supplements will be promoted through a television campaign created by the Independent‘s creative agency, Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper (see Independent Radio Ad Wins Aerial Award).Today’s Sport supplement contains fewer… Continue reading Independent Gains Two New Supplements
On the whole, the changes across the women’s weekly magazines sector during Jul-Dec ’98 were mostly undramatic. The women’s weekly magazine market is the largest sector in the industry in terms of sales, and currently accounts for over 8.4 million net sales (see Newsline). The total circulation of the titles shown here increased by a… Continue reading Thumbs Up For OK Magazine!
The music sector of the magazine market reflected the eroding sales of popular music in general. Even the ‘teenybopper’ magazines saw their recent successes at the expense of the more ‘serious’ music titles reversed quite spectacularly as both Smash Hits and Top Of The Pops recorded sizeable year-on-year losses. The more general, lifestyle orientated Sky… Continue reading 1998 – A Bad Year For Music
The music sector of the magazine market reflected the eroding sales of popular music in general. Even the ‘teenybopper’ magazines saw their recent successes at the expense of the more ‘serious’ music titles reversed quite spectacularly as both Smash Hits and Top Of The Pops recorded sizeable year-on-year losses. The more general, lifestyle orientated Sky… Continue reading 1998 – A Bad Year For Music
On the whole, the changes across the women’s weekly magazines sector during Jul-Dec’98 were mostly undramatic. The women’s weekly magazine market is the largest sector in the industry in terms of sales, and currently accounts for over 8.4 million net sales (see Newsline). The total circulation of the titles listed here increased by a very… Continue reading Thumbs Up For OK Magazine!
The new free internet service provider (ISP) launched last week by Tesco (see Tesco Introduces Free Internet Access) will have content provided by Excite as the result of a deal announced this morning. Excite is to develop specially formatted channel content and internet search engines for the service which is being offered to Tesco’s ten… Continue reading Tesco’s Free ISP Signs Content Deal With Excite
The latest July-December circulation figures for film/cinema magazines sees EMAP’s market leader, Empire, record a slight loss in year on year figures, dropping 3.1%. The magazine that is coming on leaps and bounds is Future Publishing’s Total Film, which rises by 13,570 or 25.7%.In the television listings sector the best performance comes from the freely-delivered… Continue reading Empire Slips While Total Film Continues To Grow
