BBC Magazines’ Top Of The Pops has recorded an impressive 26% year on year circulation increase in the latest ABC figures for January to June 2008.It is also one of only two magazines to see a period on period rise in the teen sector, up by 4.3% to over 130,000 copies.Panini UK Ltd’s Mizz magazine… Continue reading ABC Results Jan-Jun 2008:Top Of The Tops Magazine Shines In Teen Sector
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Bauer Media’s Q magazine has appointed Matt Mason to the newly created role of senior editor as it gears up for an autumn redesign.The magazine has also secured a string of contributing editors – including Miranda Sawyer, David Quantick and Billy Bragg – in time for the unveiling of its new look on September 27.Mason… Continue reading Q Appoints Senior Editor Ahead Of Redesign
BSkyB is to reduce the frequency of its four monthly customer magazines, including Skymag.The four titles – Skymag, Sky Sports Magazine, Sky Movies Magazine and Sky Kids – will move from 12 to 10 issues per year, starting from December.Skymag is delivered to Sky’s entire subscriber base, giving it a current ABC circulation figure of… Continue reading Change In Frequency For Sky Customer Magazines
London Lite has hired Craig MacKenzie, former Sun editorial executive, as its new deputy editor.Mackenzie joined News International in November 2004 to work on the Irish Sun but left the company at the end of May.He managed Trinity Mirror’s titles in the Republic and Northern Ireland for eight years before that.MacKenzie was brought in by… Continue reading London Lite Hires New Deputy Editor
July saw the Evening Standard‘s circulation fall by 1% month on month, a real term dip of almost 3,000 copies, leaving it with a total circulation of around 292,000 copies.Evening freesheets the London Lite and thelondonpaper now have totals of almost 402,000 and around 500,000 copies respectively.Morning freesheet City AM was down by around 13.5%… Continue reading Slight Circulation Dip For The Evening Standard
Daily Newspaper MarketThe latest national newspaper ABC figures show that the daily national newspaper market was down by 4.1% year on year overall in June.The Sun was the only daily title in our analysis not to report a year on year decline in July. National Newspaper ABC Figures – July 2008 Daily Titles Jul-07 Jul-08… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: July 2008
Telegraph.co.uk has launched a new free version of its site on 3G and WAP-enabled phones, with updated news, sports and travel articles.The new site is set to include simplified navigation tools to make it easy to access lead stories, with images alongside the text and automatically updated breaking news stories.Telegraph.co.uk was previously available to mobile… Continue reading Telegraph Revamps Mobile Site
News International has cut the price of The Sun across the UK to 30p today.The move comes less than a month after the company increased the price of the paper in London and the south-east by 5p to 30p, following its 0.8% year on year increase in the latest ABC figures (see The Sun Ups… Continue reading The Sun Slashes Its Cover Price Across The UK
The chief executive of Guardian Media Group has said that regional newspaper businesses will have to be “financially recalibrated” because they will have substantially smaller margins in the future.Speaking to the Financial Times, Carolyn McCall said that although she now had different expectations of GMG owned titles such as the Manchester Evening News, she was… Continue reading GMG Boss Predicts Substantially Smaller Margins For Local Press
Trinity Mirror has developed a mobile web platform for its newspaper titles in a deal with Nokia and Bluestar Mobile.The Daily Mirror will be one of the first papers to be made available to readers via their mobile phones when the sites launch in the autumn this year.Trinity developed the sites to offer readers instant… Continue reading Trinity Set To Launch Mobile Web Platform For The Daily Mirror