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As the latest ABC circulation figures are released for the consumer magazine market, Newsline presents its round-up of the results.

While Private Eye’s circulation decreased by a small -0.11% period-on-period, the title was up a healthy 8.6% year-on-year to 249,900.

Following a reasonably buoyant 2016, the men’s lifestyle market – despite a series of declines between January and June 2017 – is still fairly stable and most titles have healthy circulations.

Although the TV Listings magazine market is in decline, the top performing titles still pack a punch.

Although the majority of titles in the Home Interest market recorded declines year-on-year, the picture over the first half of the year was fairly stable.

Look’s circulation declined by more than a third (-34.2%) between January and June 2017 and -35.4% year-on-year.

H Bauer Publishing’s Take A Break Series shone out in an otherwise sad and struggling women’s weekly market for the January to June 2017 period.

Disney will launch a direct-to-consumer streaming service in 2019, pulling all of its existing content from Netflix in the same year.

It’s time for publishers to rediscover their ambitions and harness the potential of their global audiences, writes Michael Tomlins.

It is now only a matter of time before the likes of Amazon and Facebook start turning up with their giant chequebooks to compete for the rights to the world’s top sports.