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The latest ABC figures, for July to December 2007, show a pretty mixed six months in the teen sector, although there were some healthy circulation increases.The teen market has been through a turbulent time recently, with the National Magazine Company axing its trial digital magazine Jellyfish (see NatMags Axes Jellyfish After Trial Problems) in June,… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007: Mixed Six Months For Teen Sector

Long-running weekly financial magazine, The Business, has been axed and is to be replaced by a new monthly, Spectator Business.Martin Vander Weyer, the Spectator‘s business editor, will edit the new title when it launches in the spring.Barclay brothers’ owned The Business will cease publishing from this week and Press Holdings Media, the company that owns… Continue reading The Business Is Axed In Favour Of New Monthly

BSkyB’s customer magazine continued to be the most widely circulated consumer magazine in Britain, with an ABC of over 7.2 million for July to December 2007.This represented an upturn from just over seven million copies for January to June 2007 for the title, which is mailed out to Sky subscribers.Today’s ABC release for the second… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007: Men’s And Women’s Magazines Record Significant Declines

Woman magazine has unveiled another revamp, including a price rise, just 18 months following a previous relaunch.Over £1 million has been invested in the weekly, which shed around 11.5% of its total or almost 47,400 copies to take its final figure to just shy of 370,000 for the first six months of 2007.The magazine will… Continue reading Woman Unveils Second Revamp In 18 Months

Dennis Publishing is to launch another digital only magazine in March, following on from the success of online lads’ mag, Monkey.iGizmo will be a consumer technology digital magazine, which will launch on 11 March and be distributed as an email free of change.Dennis says that iGizmo will take “the best elements of magazines, websites and… Continue reading Dennis Launches Second Digital Only Magazine

The Audit Bureau of Circulations and the National Readership Survey have initiated exploratory talks about possible areas for closer collaboration and co-operation.“Since both organisations have significant areas of overlapping interest in the newspaper and magazine markets it seems appropriate to initiate such a debate in order to ascertain whether there may be any benefits in… Continue reading ABC And NRS In Possible Collaboration

Daily Newspaper MarketBritain’s national daily newspapers suffered an almost 3% overall drop in circulation year on year for January, with nearly all titles recording a downturn, according to the latest ABC figures.The Financial Times was once again the only daily paper to bolster its circulation, reporting a 3% rise year on year for the month.The… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: January 2008

New owner Bauer Consumer Media has suspended NW and First Magazines from publication, ahead of next week’s consumer magazines ABC release.Bauer made the announcement in a statement from Marcus Rich, group managing director Bauer Advertising and Bauer London Lifestyle Magazines.The company said it would now enter into a month-long period of consultation with editorial staff.… Continue reading Bauer Suspends Publication Of NW And First

In January thelondonpaper saw its circulation rise by more than 6% month on month, giving it a total figure of over 500,000 copies.This was well ahead of the London Lite, which following an increase of around 2.5% now has a circulation nearing 400,000 .Paid-for title the Evening Standard also enjoyed a circulation upturn in January,… Continue reading thelondonpaper’s Circulation Up 6%

UK Internet traffic to newspaper websites reached its highest level in over two years last week off the back of a number of big news stories, according to the latest figures from Hitwise.For the week ending 26 January 2008, 1.48% of all UK internet visits went to websites in Hitwise’s News and Media – Print… Continue reading UK Internet Traffic To Newspaper Websites Reaches High