All of the titles in the TV Listing Magazines sector have seen year on year circulation declines in the latest ABC release for July to December 2008.However, three of the titles enjoyed period on period rises, including BBC Worldwide’s Radio Times (1.4%), H Bauer’s Total TV Guide (1%) and IPCs TV Times (1.9%).TV Choice remains… Continue reading ABC Results July-Dec 2008:All TV listing titles see circulation declines again this period
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Condé Nast’s handbag sized Glamour magazine remains top of the women’s monthly sector in the latest ABC release, for July to December 2008, despite seeing a slight dip of 0.4% year on year, taking it to just below 550,000 copies.However, the new John Lewis in-store free magazine, Source, by John Brown Group, isn’t far behind,… Continue reading ABC Results July-Dec 2008:Glamour stays on top of the women’s monthly sector
It was a hard six months for the teen magazine sector, although some titles managed to weather the storm better than others.Hachette Filipacchi’s Sugar was top of the sector with a total circulation of over 153,500 copies.However, it was down year on year by around 2.5% and period on period by around 3% according to… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2008:Tough times for teen magazines
Ahead of the much-anticipated ABC Consumer Magazines data release tomorrow, NewsLine wonders what the future holds for consumer magazines.In the last few months alone, we’ve seen Dennis launch one magazine but close another (see Dennis launches new poker magazine), Exchange & Mart migrate to a digital-only format amid falling circulation figures (see Exchange & Mart… Continue reading The future of consumer magazines
News International is in talks with News Corp about creating a behavioural targeting network across its properties, on sites such as MySpace and Sky.The network would allow News International titles, such as The Sun and The Times, to share data on reader behaviour and enable brands to target across both publisher’s sites.Martin Corke, head of… Continue reading News International and News Corp in behavioural targeting talks
Condé Nast has appointed Catherine Ostler, former editor of the Evening Standard’s ES magazine, as the new editor of Tatler.Ostler is set to replace Geordie Greig, who stepped down from the role earlier this month to become the editor of the London Evening Standard, under new owner Alexander Lebedev.Lebedev has also re-appointed managing director Andrew… Continue reading Tatler appoints new editor
Daily Newspaper MarketThe national daily newspaper market was down overall by 3.8% year on year in January.There were relatively large year on year declines for the Independent, Daily Record and Daily Mirror, while the Daily Star managed to buck the overall trend. National Newspaper ABC Figures – January 2009 Daily Titles Jan-08 Jan-09 Actual Change… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: January 2009
Buoyed by the increasing financial uncertainty in world markets, January saw free business title City AM‘s distribution figure grow 3.7% year on year to 87,655.The Evening Standard‘s circulation dipped slightly year on year, by around 0.5% to just under 293,000 copies, although it was up month on month.Evening freesheet thelondonpaper remained relatively static year on… Continue reading City AM enjoys year on year growth
News International plans to slash the cover price of its new-look Saturday Times by 50p to £1 for a limited period, as part of a seven-week marketing drive.The third-off price cut is part of the publisher’s £2 million advertising campaign, which has been created by CHI & Partners in association with brand consultant Venturethree, to… Continue reading Times cuts Saturday cover price
The Evening Standard is testing a new distribution strategy that could see it offer free and heavily discounted copies of the 50p paper outside train and tube stations.Currently undergoing secret testing, the new strategy would see free copies distributed outside train and tube stations, upmarket restaurants and West End theatres, with vendors paid fixed hourly… Continue reading Evening Standard could offer free and discounted copies