The following tables show the overall performances of each magazine publishing group in the July-December 1999 ABCs, released on Friday last week. Attic Futura, Dennis Publishing and Future Publishing are the only companies to show overall annual growth in their portfolios.The consumer publishing giants, EMAP and IPC, both saw slight decline in their overall sales… Continue reading July-December 1999 ABCs – Performance By Publisher
The launch of Sega’s Dreamcast obviously had a significant influence upon the games magazine market during the latter half of 1999. It left Nintendo and Sony Playstation as effectively outdated machines and titles dedicated to these ageing models began to fall out of fashion. N64 Pro lost over half its circulation on the previous year,… Continue reading Dreamcast Launch Takes Games Market To Next Level
Women’s monthly titles suffered badly during the six-month period ending December 1999, with 60% of titles showing a decrease in circulation. Prima was toppled from its position as market leader with sales dropping 17%; its replacement was National Magazine Company’s Cosmopolitan which now heads the sector with sales of 470,000.Other titles showing significant decline included… Continue reading New Market Leader As Women’s Monthlies Sector Suffers Decline
The lads’ mag phenomenon which was pioneered by IPC’s Loaded during the late ’90s, and mimicked to greater or lesser degrees by FHM, Maxim and GQ, seems to have finally lost its sparkle. In two consecutive audits now, both Loaded and FHM have seen their circulations tumble year on year.EMAP’s FHM, whilst holding steady period… Continue reading Lads’ Mags Suffer As Bubble Begins To Burst
The latest figures from ABC show that for teenage magazines circulation levels have fallen by over 327,346 over the past year, a 9.7% decrease in sales.Some magazines have fared better than others however, and Mizz, More, Live & Kicking and the recently launched Girl Talk have all experienced growth in circulation. The worst affected magazine… Continue reading EMAP Retains Lead In Struggling Teen Sector
Sales of titles in this sector rose marginally during the period in question, although this was largely due to the launch of Real Homes Magazine which appeared on the ABC survey for the first time in 1999.The IPC publication, Ideal Home, enjoyed the greatest increase in sales – 54,357 or 27.2% year on year. The… Continue reading IPC Steadies the Home Interest Ship
July to December figures for 1999 show that the women’s weeklies market has declined in overall sales when compared to the same period a year earlier. Total sales for the sector came in at 7.8 million copies, down slightly by 2.2%.Bauer’s Take A Break leads the market, despite circulation falling 3.4% year on year. There… Continue reading Women’s Weeklies Round Up – July-December 1999
The latest circulation figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) show few highlights for consumer music magazines. Year-on-year the sector fell 9.8% from 1,831,233 (Jul-Dec 98) to 1,652,254. All of the main publishers in the sector suffered heavy losses on leading titles. EMAP’s Select, Sky and Smash Hits titles fell 21.4%, 24.2% and 18.1%… Continue reading Latest ABCs Show Few Highlights For Music Sector
The overall decline in national newspaper readership has worsened, according to the latest figures released by the National Readership Survey (NRS). In a year-on-year analysis the whole sector has dropped back 1.3%, or 910,000 readers, for the six-month period ending December 1999.The Daily Mail (up 11.7%), the Mail on Sunday (up 4.9%), the Daily Telegraph… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS Round-Up – December 1999
Women in their “middle youth” will soon have two new lifestyle magazine titles to choose from, as publishers Gruner & Jahr and Dennis Publishing each line up their new offerings in this sector. G&J’s code-named Florence and Dennis’ Project Denise both target women in their late 20s and 30s and have an up-market slant.This sector… Continue reading Feature: Middle Youth Sector Strains As Two More Titles Plan To Launch
