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The Financial Times is to launch a social networking service for media and technology executives.The FT Media and Technology Executive Membership Forum is being launched with the aim of enabling senior executives to “maintain contact with peers and luminaries operating within the digital, new media, mobile and telecoms sectors”.Forum members will receive complimentary passes for… Continue reading FT Launches Networking Website for Senior Executives

Caroline McDevitt , managing director of IPC Advertising, has been confirmed to sit on the panel at MediaTel Group’s ‘Future of Consumer Magazines’ seminar to be held in March.McDevitt has held the position since early 2006, having joined IPC in 2005 as director of group advertising. She also took on the position of chair of… Continue reading IPC’s McDevitt Confirmed For ‘Future of Consumer Magazines’

From tomorrow, publishers will be able to report both their print circulation and website unique user figures on a monthly basis for the first time in a new single report from the ABC.The new Multi-platform Monthly Report will detail month on month and year on year figures for both on and offline properties. In addition,… Continue reading Publishers To Be Able To Report Monthly Print And Web Figures

Following on from last week’s ABC results, MediaTel Group is to host the ‘Future of Consumer Magazines’ in early March, looking at what’s next for the industry.The session, which will take place in London on Thursday 6 March, boasts the likes of Mike Soutar, chief executive of Shortlist Media, and Duncan Edwards, chief executive of… Continue reading Seminar To Examine Consumer Magazine Market

Both Xbox World 360 and Official Nintendo Magazine enjoyed large circulation increases for the six month period to the end of December. Both titles were up by around 37% each year on year.Xbox World 360 now has a total circulation figure of nearly 32,000 copies, while Official Nintendo Magazine‘s circulation has risen to almost 59,000… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007:Xbox World 360 And Official Nintendo Magazine Record Big Increases In Circulation

Q magazine remained top of the music mags despite a decline of almost 9,000 copies year on year for July to December 2007, according to the latest ABC data.The title, which was recently acquired by Bauer Consumer Media, now reports a figure of 131,300, which was actually up just under 1% period on period.IPC’s NME… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007: Q Magazine Stays Top Of Declining Music Market

Daily Newspaper MarketBritain’s national daily newspapers reported an overall decline in readership of almost 2% year on year for the last six months of 2007.All dailies, with the exception of the Daily Mail and the Sun, saw a fall in readership, according to the latest NRS data, with the Guardian and the Daily Star reporting… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: July – December 2007

The latest ABC figures show that men’s free weekly title Shortlist had the largest circulation figure in the men’s lifestyle sector, although it just missed its target of 500,000 copies.Shortlist, which launched in September last year (see Free Men’s Mag ShortList Grows), had a total circulation of nearly 463,000 copies (as the title only launched… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007:Shortlist Falls Just Short Of Circulation Target

It was a generally gloomy picture in the women’s weekly market, with sizeable declines for several titles and few exceptions to the trend.Take A Break remained top with a circulation of a little over a million for July to December 2007, despite a decline of over 26,000 copies year on year.Celebrity focused title, Heat, reported… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007: Women’s Weeklies See Sizeable Declines With Few Bucking The Trend

It was a relatively stable and optimistic outlook for the home interest sector, with many titles recording upturns in circulation for the six months to December 2007, according to the latest ABC data.In-store magazine, Homebase Ideas, is the most widely circulated title in the sector at 423,300, following a lift of 1.2% year on year… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007:Home Interest Sector Reports Overall Optimistic Outlook