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Yesterday saw the Observer follow its weekday counterpart the Guardian in switching to Berliner format, ending the paper’s life as a fully-fledged broadsheet.The switch, backed by a high profile TV campaign, also sees the paper move to full colour publishing. The redesign sees the Business & Media and Cash sections merge, forming a business and… Continue reading Observer Makes Transition To Berliner Format

Britain’s newspaper market continued to see overall circulations decline throughout 2005, although a new wave of compact titles succeeded in bucking the trend, while new launches in the free-sheet market saw healthy starts.By far the largest change within 2005’s national newspaper market was the Guardian‘s switch to Berliner format, undertaken in September (see Guardian Hits… Continue reading End Of Year Round-Up: Press

Guardian Newspapers has confirmed a launch date for the Berliner-format Observer next year, with the redesigned title hitting newsstands on 8 January.The switch will bring the paper into line with weekday stablemate The Guardian, which adopted the compact format in mid-September.The redesign will reduce the size of each supplement within the newspaper, and deliver a… Continue reading Berliner Sized Observer To Launch Early January

Daily Newspaper MarketBritain’s quality sector was the only area of the national daily newspaper market to see an increase in readership during the six months to September, with rises for the newly compact Guardian, as well as small-form rivals the Independent and Times.Readership declines prevailed elsewhere, however, with the Financial Times suffering particularly heavy downturn,… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: September 2005

Daily Newspaper MarketThe majority of Britain’s daily national newspapers saw declines in readership during the six months to October, with only the compact quality titles managing to increase their audiences.The Independent notched up the largest increase, adding 21.2% to its total year on year, which now stands at 708,000. Elsewhere, the Times added 11%, while… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: October 2005

New figures from media watchdog Ofcom have revealed 65.9% of UK households watching digital television, up from 63.0% in the previous quarter. According to Ofcom’s figures, the total number of households viewing digital television grew by more than 760,000 year on year to almost 16.5 million. In total there are now more than 6.3 million… Continue reading Ofcom Estimates Show 65.9% Of Britain With Digital TV

Daily Newspaper MarketThe daily newspaper market saw a tumultuous month in November, with several quality titles managing to increase sales year on year, while both the mid market sector and the popular market suffered downturns across the board.The Guardian managed the largest increase in circulation year on year, adding 6.3% to total 401,029. However, the… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: November 2005

Specialist magazine firm, Future, has secured the licence to create the official Nintendo magazine in the UK, positioning the publisher to capitalise on the company’s forthcoming games console, the Nintendo Revolution.The exclusive licence builds on the successful relationship Future already has with Nintendo in mainland Europe, as the publisher of the French and Italian editions… Continue reading Future Scoops Official Nintendo Publishing Rights

Advertising expenditure in newspapers rose by 2.4% in the third quarter of 2005, with online up by an impressive 26.7%. The print medium did not fair so well seeing an increase of just 1.6%, with Q3’s modest gain the medium’s worst advertising performance this year. Despite a depressed market for the newspaper industry, online readership… Continue reading US Newspaper Adspend Up By 2.4% In Q3 Fuelled By Online Expenditure

Online newspaper websites are increasing in popularity, with new data from Nielsen//NetRatings showing a growth of 11% in unique visitors between October 2004 and October 2005, a rate faster than the 3% growth of active users on the entire internet. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, 39.3 million visitors logged onto newspaper websites in the US in October,… Continue reading Newspaper Websites Increase In Use