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The Home Interest magazine sector has seen a mixed bag of results in the latest release of ABC figures for the six-month period to June 2006, with some titles losing sales and others boosting circulation.Quarterly title, Homebase Ideas, which is sold in-store and mailed to customers, has the largest circulation in the market at just… Continue reading ABC Results Jan-Jun 2006:Home Interest Magazines Report Mixed Bag Results

The latest ABC results for the TV listings sector show that only two titles have recorded circulation increases in the six months to June, both from H Bauer Publishing.TV Choice saw the largest increase in sales in the TV listings market, with an 11.2% rise year on year (an actual rise of 130,151), taking it… Continue reading ABC Results Jan-Jun 2006:Decline For TV Listings And Mixed Results For Soap

Year on year declines continued to be the norm for the majority of women’s monthlies, with large decreases in circulation for some titles.Conde Nast’s Glamour stayed in front of the pack as the magazine of choice, although the title’s circulation, of 586,056, was down 3.9% year on year.The largest sales increase for the sector came… Continue reading ABC Results Jan-Jun 2006:Women’s Monthlies Market Still Volatile

The latest ABC figures for January to June 2006 illustrate that almost all titles in the Teenage Magazine sector have suffered a decline in sales, with some titles forced to close.Hachette’s Sugar suffered the worst actual loss of sales, down by almost 85,000 copies year on year. Its circulation now stands at over 200,000. Emap’s… Continue reading ABC Results Jan-Jun 2006:Teen Mag Sector Suffers As New Platforms Force Closures

Daily Newspaper MarketThe national daily newspaper market continued to decline in July, with overall circulation falling by 3.41% year on year.The Mid Market and Popular sectors both recorded circulation declines for all titles, with only two of the Qualities bucking the overall trend, The FT and the Guardian.The Times recorded the biggest decline of the… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: July 2006

IPC Country & Leisure Media (CALM) has announced the creation of a new advertising sales division uniquely tasked with delivering online solutions to agencies and clients across a number of CALM’s portfolio of specialist web brands.IPC says that the new team is designed to offer advertisers an extremely high net worth audience who are passionate… Continue reading IPC Creates New Advertising Sales Division

The London freesheet war has stepped up a notch with the announcement that Evening Standard owner, Associated Newspapers, is planning to launch a rival afternoon paper.Provisionally titled London Lite, the new freesheet is set to challenge News International’s thelondonpaper, which is to be launched in September (see New London Freesheet May Expand To Other Cities).According… Continue reading Freesheet War Steps Up With New Entry Into The Market

The new London freesheet, which News International will launch on 18 September, could expand to cover further cities in the UK.News International Free Newspapers general manager, Ian Clark, told Media Week that NI also has another Associated Newspapers’ title in its sights, the morning free paper, Metro. Once thelondonpaper had proved itself, the strategy is… Continue reading New London Freesheet May Expand To Other Cities

Newspaper content for teens, by teens and relating to teens strongly impacts a newspapers ability to attract young adult readers and keep them as they age, according to new research from the Newspaper Association of America Foundation. The study, of more than 1,600 18-24 year olds, saw 75% of respondents who said they read newspaper… Continue reading Newspaper Content For Teens Attracts Young Readers

The huge success of freesheets, particularly the Metro, was a major talking point at yesterday’s Future Of The Press seminar, although praise for the business model did not come without a note of warning that its booming popularity may be hard to sustain. Stuart Taylor, commercial director at Guardian Newspapers Ltd, said: “I think Metro… Continue reading Metro Profitability Could Be Hit By New Freesheet