Print Review July-December 2009
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July
Newspaper June ABC Summary
Pops
All were down YOY, with The Daily Record down the most by 6.23%, followed by The Daily Mirror at 4.29%. As the market had dropped by 3.14% in general, the performance of The Sun and The Daily Star surpassed the average, with The Sun down by 2.68% and The Daily Star only marginally down by 0.94%.
Mids
The worse hit in the mid market was the Daily Express, down 8.8% YOY, over 5% below the market average. The Daily Mail on the other hand dropped only 1.57% YOY in clear contrast to its rival.
Quals
The worst performer in the quality dailies was the Scotsman, dropping 6.13% from the previous year. The next titles worst hit were The Guardian (down 4.38% YOY), The Herald (down 3.21% YOY) and The Times (down 3.5% YOY). The Independent, Financial Times and The Daily Telegraph bucked the trend by surpassing the market average of 1.94%, down marginally by 1.39%, 0.95% and 0.93% respectively.
New-look Pick Me Up Launches
After posting double-digit declines in sales in the February ABC figures, to 374,268 for July to December 2008…down 12.2% year on year, the title decided to re-launch to battle its Bauer rivals Take a Break and That’s Life. Pick Me Up includes three new sections and hopes to benefit from its three-month sponsorship of Jerry Springer and Maury Povich on Living.
Guardian still most popular online UK newspaper
Guardian.co.uk remained the most popular UK newspaper brand online in May, with 27.2 million users, despite a lift in Telegraph.co.uk’s users to 25.2 million, fuelled by its coverage of MPs’ expenses. News International’s incoming chief executive Rebekah Wade prepares to leave her role as editor of The Sun on a high, with TheSun.co.uk (22.9 million) leapfrogging Times Online (20.4 million) in May.
Newspaper ABCs: Times and Star achieve Sunday circulation rises
News International’s quality Sunday paper The Sunday Times and Northern & Shell’s Daily Star Sunday posted year-on-year circulation rises in June. The Sunday Times circulation rose 1.33% month on month to 1,210,352 and the Daily Star Sunday’s circulation was up 7.32% month on month to 386,069.
NRS sets up new advisory panel
The National Readership Survey, the body that monitors newspaper and magazine readership, is setting up a new advisory panel to help advertisers and agencies become more involved in its strategy. The NRS, under the direction of new chief executive Mike Ironside, is looking to become more inclusive and modern and overturn the criticism that its methodology is outdated.
Jackson coverage helps boost newspapers and magazines
News of Jackson’s death on 25 June made the front pages of all the following morning’s national newspapers.
Newspapers signal the end for free content
Publishers were under increasing pressure to make their digital offerings pay without alienating their vast online audiences. News Corporation sounded the alarm earlier this year when it announced plans to start charging for certain online properties…which could include The Sun and The Times…as early as next year. Describing the current model as “malfunctioning”, News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch promised shareholders a new model that “maximizes revenues and returns”.
IPC revamp designed to sex up Marie Claire
IPC’s flagship women’s glossy Marie Claire underwent its biggest revamp in five years under new editor Trish Halpin, backed by a £1m media campaign. The September issue of the monthly title, which hit shelves on Thursday 30 July, included a redesign including new features in a bid to revive its editorial coverage of sex and relationships.
Trinity Mirror launches free weekly newspaper in Cardiff
Trinity Mirror announced it was launching a free weekly newspaper, Echo Extra, in Cardiff to replace the free Cardiff Post. The Echo Extra’s design will be allied with the daily title and will carry more news, features and sport than the Post. It will encourage reader involvement through contributed items and responses, as well as via Walesonline.co.uk.
August
Newspaper July ABC Summary
Pops
On average the sector was down YOY by 5.6% if marginally up MOM by 1.16%. The Daily Star produced the lowest figures by dropping 10.42% YOY, followed by The Daily Record who dropped 8.57% YOY and The Daily Mirror, down by 5.29%. The Sun battled the average by dropping 4.07% YOY and increasingly 1.87% MOM.
Mids
The Daily Mail dropped only slightly more than the average of 1.05%, decreasing YOY by 1.30%. The Daily Express however bested the market by dropping only by 0.33% YOY.
Quals
The YOY average for the sector was down 1.36% but all of the titles dropped far lower than this. The Scotsman dropped dramatically by 11.35%, followed by its Scottish counterpart The Herald at 7.33%. This is then followed distantly by the English Nationals, The Times down by 4.38%, The Guardian dropping by 3.42% and The Financial Times by 3.23%. The Independent and The Daily Telegraph performed the best YOY, dropping by 1.89% and 1.63%.
FT.com increases users and launches new clippings service
One of the UK’s only paid-for newspaper sites, FT.com, exceeded 1.4 million registered users since its launch in 2007. It has also launched a new online clippings service. This service means registered users can save, store and share articles and webpages through FT.com. The service is available at www.clippings.ft.com.
Lifestyle mag sales crash
Bauer Media’s FHM and IPC’s Loaded lost more than 25% of their UK news-stand sales in the past six months, the ABCs revealed on Thursday 13th August.
Sport magazines struggle with double-digit falls
The biggest overall loser was independent magazine Golf International, which fell 40.1% period on period and 38.7% year on year. Its nearest rival, IPC’s Golf Monthly, fell 12.6% period on period to 67,314. The leader in the golfing market, Bauer Consumer Media’s Today’s Golfer, fell to 77,069, down 5.9% period on period and 10.8% year on year. Meanwhile, Haymarket’s FourFourTwo continued to lead the football market, posting an ABC of 90,084, although this figure was down 12.9% year on year.
Paid-for food titles beat off threat from free competition
Overall, the paid-for sector was up 7.4% year on year to 658,746 copies, thanks to the launch of Jamie Magazine, which posted a respectable debut ABC of 75,369. BBC titles suffered the biggest percentage drops. Despite a 10.2% period-on-period drop, BBC Good Food remained the paid-for market leader, with a circulation of 323,171. Easy Cook, the only bi-monthly in the group, suffered the most serious loss, down 17.6% period on period and 10.4% year on year.
Sugar continues its sales decline
Hachette’s teen title Sugar retained the top spot in the children’s and teenage sector, although it was hit by the trend of teenage girls migrating to the internet to get their fix of boys, fashion and real-life stories. Sugar’s circulation fell 11.5% year on year to 140,599, while its arch-rival Bliss, published by Panini, fell 19.7% year on year to 86,054. Elsewhere in the teen sector, BBC Magazines’ Top of the Pops fell 8% year on year and 4.6% period on period to record a circulation of 119,739.
Decline in car sales puts brakes on motor mags
BBC Top Gear Magazine easily retained the top spot with 200,761 copies, up 0.1% year on year, attributed to its association with a phenomenally successful TV programme. Haymarket Consumer Media’s What Car? stayed second, but was also the biggest loser year on year, falling 19.3% to 87,220 copies. But the title was still almost 20,000 copies ahead of Dennis Publishing’s Auto Express and Evo. The latter overtook Bauer Consumer Media’s Car to take fifth place.
Home interest market picks up
BBC Gardeners’ World still led the sector, with a circulation of 266,179, a rise of more than 20% period on period. Initiatives such as “grow your own” and the Gardeners’ World Awards, which have raised the brand’s awareness have contributed to this.
IPC’s Ideal Home remained ahead of NatMags’ Country Living and House Beautiful, although Country Living was the only one of the trio not to suffer a double-digit year- on-year fall.
Women outstrip men
Unlike the men’s sector, the women’s glossy market has ridden out the recession reasonably well, suggesting female audiences still value affordable luxuries and practical advice in times of austerity. Part of the 2.8% year-on-year drop in the market can be attributed to smaller disposable incomes and the fact that readers who frequently bought multiple titles…or monthlies as well as weeklies…may now be limiting themselves to just one magazine.
Exclusives help OK! back to top
Reports of the death of celebrity magazines were greatly exaggerated, according to the latest ABC results. The biggest winner was Northern & Shell’s OK!, which recovered from a torrid performance in the second half of 2008 by investing heavily in celebrity exclusives.
News International set to close thelondonpaper
James Murdoch, chairman and chief executive, Europe and Asia, News Corporation, said in a statement: “The strategy at News International over the past 18 months has been to streamline our operations and focus investment on our core titles”. Subsequently it was announced that thelondonpaper was set to close.
SEPTEMBER
The Sun shines in August ABCs
The Sun was the only major daily newspaper to increase circulation in August, although red-top rival Daily Star was the outstanding performer of the year, according to ABC figures.
The top annual accolade goes to the Daily Star, which continued to shine with an 18% increase in. It follows a slight dip of 0.03% month on month.
In a relatively stable performance by the entire newspaper sector, Trinity’s rival The Daily Mirror was the second-biggest faller, down 1.13% to 1,324,883. Compared to last August, circulation for the title was down 8.96%.
In the quality newspapers, August saw the biggest decline for The Guardian, down 5.29% to 311,387.
However, the top-line figure masks GN&M’s decision to remove all its bulk copies, some 12,000 copies, from circulation in August. Once taken into account, the newspaper’s circulation dropped just 1%. Year on year, The Guardian was down 6.37%.
There was little movement in the rest of the market, which during the traditional silly season for news will be welcomed as something of an achievement by the embattled industry.
News International’s The Times was down 0.74% to 576,185, IN&M’s Independent fell 0.62% to 187,837, TMG’s Daily Telegraph was down 0.59% to 814,087, while the Financial Times dropped 0.44% to 395,845.
The biggest faller since last August was The Independent, down 18.34%.
North of the border, all the newspapers in Scotland posted a monthly rise in circulation as the political fall-out and global reverberations of the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi captured the interests of the nation.
The Scotsman was up 9.91%, The Herald was up 3.92% and Daily Record up 1.21%.
Sunday Times the bright spot in newspaper ABCs
The Sunday Times was the only national Sunday newspaper to increase circulation year on year in August, up 0.72%, according to August ABC data.
Several months of year-on-year rises for the Daily Star Sunday, however, came to an end in August, as its circulation dipped 0.61% to 401,305 copies.
The traditional national Sunday newspaper leaders, News of the World and The Sunday Times, retained their leadership among the tabloid and quality Sunday sectors. Both outperformed most of their respective rivals. The News of the World’s circulation fell 3.94% to 3.12million, a smaller year-on-year decline than any of its red-top rivals bar the Daily Star Sunday.
Meanwhile, The Sunday Times far outperformed its quality rivals, averaging a 1.16million circulation per issue.
By comparison, its rivals suffered much larger drops. The Independent on Sunday’s circulation was down almost one-fifth (18.27%) to 160,809 and The Observer’s circulation dropped below the 400,000 mark, down 12.03% to 361,761. However, August was the first full month without bulk sales for The Observer, so this should be taken into consideration too.
The Sunday Telegraph’s performance was better than these two titles, down only 3.17%, although such a fall meant its circulation was below the 600,000 mark, to 599,131.
Elsewhere, The Mail on Sunday’s circulation edged closer to the two million mark, down 7.52% year on year to 2.01m. Such a year on year decline was worse than its rival, The Sunday Express, which declined 1.25% to 646,861.
Among the pops, August was a tough month for Trinity Mirror circulation-wise. The People’s circulation dipped below 600,000 to 586,414, a fall of 9.7 year on year. Its sibling, The Sunday Mirror, posted a 5.7% circulation decline year on year to 1.24m.
IN&M secures print deals with TMG and Trinity Mirror
Independent News & Media signed long-term full colour print contracts with Telegraph Media Group and Trinity Mirror in Northern Ireland.
Under the renewed print contract, IN&M will print The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph in full colour at its Newry print plant for the next 15 years.
In a new deal, Trinity Mirror’s Scottish paper the Daily Record will be printed on the Colorliner presses at the IN&M plant in Belfast. IN&M has also renewed the contract to print the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror in full colour at the IN&M plant at Royal Avenue, Belfast for the next seven years.
Michael Brophy, IN&M’s chief executive for Northern Ireland, said the two agreements were “a tribute to the people who have built the plants” in Belfast and Newry and to the members of staff who “work throughout the night to bring UK national newspapers to the streets” of Northern Ireland.
In Northern Ireland, IN&M now prints all Trinity Mirror titles, the Telegraph titles, News International’s The Sun and News of the World, Daily Express and Sunday Express, Daily Star, Irish Star, Sunday World, Sunday Tribune, The Independent and a series of magazines for the Independent.
The IN&M plants in Belfast and Newry print 200 million copies of 35 titles every year.
Spectator to charge for online content
The Spectator, the weekly politics and current affairs magazine, became the latest publisher to introduce a pay wall around its online content, following the lead taken by Rupert Murdoch.
The title has introduced a mixed model, charging for its magazine content online, although blog content, including its Coffee House blog, and contributions from high-profile writers such as Melanie Philips, will remain free of charge.
The Spectator’s variable pricing model included an annual subscription to the print copy as well as online and Spectator Direct, which delivers the Spectator’s online content direct to a subscriber’s mail box.
It is also offering readers Spectator Kindle and the imminent option of a Spectator mobile offering.
Covermounts and price cuts boost women’s monthlies
Covermounts and price cuts significantly benefited magazine circulations in the first half of 2009, boosting some women’s monthlies by about 200,000 copies per issue.
Cosmopolitan enjoyed success by slashing its cover price from £3.30 to £2 and giving away a free “chick-lit” novel in July. The NatMags-owned monthly posted a circulation of 647,796 in July…200,000 above its 441,683 average for the first half of 2009.
Giveaways were particularly prevalent in the women’s monthly lifestyle sector, including IPC’s Marie Claire and Condé Nast’s Glamour. July’s issue of Glamour gave away free mascara, which helped it register 745,133 copies, a healthy increase on its average monthly circulation for the first half of 2009 of 526,145 copies.
New Statesman set for relaunch
The New Statesman, the political magazine, relaunched with new sections and columnists.
New columnists include the novelist Will Self, who will write on social phenomena and high street food; comedian Mark Watson will write on ethical dilemmas and David Blanchflower, a former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, on economics.
The 96-year-old title hit the news stands on Thursday 24th September with a redesign, including a new masthead and enhanced focus on photography with the appointment of the New Statesman’s first picture editor.
The title claims its new editorial approach will “remain left of centre in politics and true to its political heritage, but will be more nuanced in tone, more plural and sceptical”.
OCTOBER
Daily Star circulation rises 18%
Richard Desmond’s Daily Star continued to shine bright among daily national newspapers, recording a double-digit leap in circulation.
The Star’s stellar performance has been one of the newspaper success stories of the year and, according to September’s ABC figures, its strong performance continued, upping its circulation to 863,559, a rise of 18.06% year on year.
The Sun, meanwhile, registered a circulation of 3.01 million, a fall of 2.39% year on year.
Across the qualities, The Independent and The Times suffered double-digit percentage declines in circulation year on year. The Independent recorded a circulation of 186,490, down 15.6% year on year, while The Times’ circulation dropped 10.43% year on year, to 571,506.
In the mid-market, circulations for the Daily Mail and Daily Express were down by the same margin, 3.65% year on year, although the Mail had about three times the circulation of the Express, at 2.16 million copies.
Sunday Times leads quality market
The Sunday Times and Daily Star Sunday were the best- performing Sunday newspapers in September, in an otherwise depressing month circulation-wise for Sunday papers.
The Daily Star Sunday newspaper increased circulation 0.61% year on year, to 384,575 copies.
Meanwhile, The Sunday Times, while shedding circulation, outperformed all of its quality rivals. It was down marginally year on year by 1.17%, to 1.21 million copies.
The Sunday Telegraph also performed well relative to most Sunday newspapers: its circulation fell 3.58% to 599,380 copies.
However, The Independent on Sunday and The Observer suffered the biggest circulation drops among the national Sunday newspapers in percentage terms. The former’s circulation dived 14.29% to 156,433 while the IoS dropped 14.89% to 385,617 copies.
Trinity Mirror endured a tough September, with its two Sunday red-tops and Scottish title, the Sunday Mail, posting the biggest year-on-year circulation drops among the red-tops.
The People’s circulation dropped 9.86% to 563,877 copies, while The Sunday Mirror’s circulation declined 7.16% to 1.22 million copies. The Sunday Mail, which focuses mainly on the Scottish market, posted an 11.7% drop to 413,906 copies.
Within the mid-market, meanwhile, The Mail on Sunday shed a tenth of its circulation (10.11%), but remained above the two-million circulation barrier, at 2.01 million copies. The Sunday Express shed 5.5% of circulation to average 619,032 copies in September.
Evening Standard to go free from 12 October
The London Evening Standard became a free newspaper from 12th October, with its circulation doubling from around 250,000 to 600,000 copies per day.
The Alexander Lebedev-controlled newspaper is turning to free distribution as it looks to revive its fortunes following the arrival of the London freesheets, the London Lite and the now defunct thelondonpaper.
UK’s first print and online planning tool set to launch
Locally Connected, the UK’s first integrated print and online planning currency, launched on 24th November.
The launch follows the completion of a three-way project between the regional publishers’ trade body, the Newspaper Society, with JICREG, the Joint Industry Committee for Regional Press Research, and the ABC.
The planning currency uses a combination of ABC print circulation and ABCe web traffic data, plus research conducted by Survey Interactive to give the net reach of online and offline titles.
Publishers on board are Trinity Mirror, Johnston Press, Northcliffe Media, Newsquest, GMG Regional and the Midlands News Association. The Newspaper Society hopes all publishers will be involved in future.
The project began in 2006 and research outfit Telmar devised the methodology of the integration of internet audience data with print readership data. The result incorporates audited web traffic data, survey data and statistical analysis and modelling and will be updated regularly.
All change in Birmingham
It was announced that as part of a massive shake-up for AMRA, the Birmingham Mail, which was an evening newspaper, is moving to overnight production early next year…meaning it will no longer cover on-the-day breaking news. In addition the Birmingham Post changed from a daily to a weekly publication.
Times to launch monthly Eureka magazine
The Times launched its new monthly magazine, Eureka, covering science, life and the environment on Thursday 8th October.
The magazine is the first to be launched with a weekday edition of The Times. It is billed as the first dedicated monthly science magazine of any national newspaper.
Each edition will carry contributions from specialist Times writers and key personalities from the science and arts worlds, as well as striking photography.
Sunday Telegraph to launch ST Kids magazine
The Sunday Telegraph launched a glossy twice-annual magazine for parents of children aged five-plus called ST Kids on Sunday 11th October.
The magazine will have a circulation of 300,000 and will be the fourth title in the ST series, which includes ST Fashion, ST Men’s Style and ST Design and Interiors, and will also be edited by Peter Howarth.
Available in London and to Telegraph readers in the South East, the magazine includes features on clothing trends, lifestyle and books, as well as articles by Sarah Mower, contributing editor for US Vogue, and Nicholas Tucker, editor of The Rough Guide to Children’s Books five to 11 Years.
New membership scheme launched for Times newspapers
News International has launched a new membership scheme called Times+ for readers of The Times and The Sunday Times.
Membership of Times+ will give readers access to events, gifts and rewards, and is free to subscribers of The Times and The Sunday Times, or is available to non-subscribers for £50 a year.
News International said Times+ builds on the success of Culture+, which has attracted 90,000 members since it launched. Membership of Times+ includes one specialist pack and launches with either Culture+ or Travel+.
More specialist packs will be added over the next 12 months. Subscribers may add additional packs for £25 and non-subscribers can add packs for £50.
Stylist hits the streets
Stylist, the new free women’s title launched in October featuring an interview with Angelina Jolie.
The 56-page issue, carrying 17 pages of ads, will be handed out via street vendors, initially in six cities, including London, Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham.
ShortList Media chief executive Mike Soutar believes he has identified a gap in the market to target the 4.2 million-strong “breakthrough generation” of 20 to 40-year-old women who enjoy 11 years of freedom and career building before starting a family.
The Economist introduces pay-wall for archive content
The Economist confirmed it was to begin “experimentation” with a new website pay -wall from 13th October.
The previously existing pay-wall, which allowed non-subscribers to the magazine web access to editorial published within the past 12 months, free of charge, will now apply to all content more than 90 days old.
The move will attempt to reposition the weekly news magazine’s content, which prefers to call itself a ‘weekly newspaper’, as “a premium reading experience” both on and offline.
Q’s Lily Allen cover lands The Maggies award
Bauer Media’s Q magazine cover of Lilly Allen scooped the top award for magazine cover of the year in a new national awards competition, The Maggies.
The Maggies are a national poll aimed at promoting the magazine business.
Daily Telegraph cover price goes up to £1
The Daily Telegraph increased its cover price to £1, leaving The Times as the only weekday national quality newspaper priced at 90p.
The Times said it had no plans to counter The Telegraph’s price rise.
The Daily Telegraph joined The Independent and The Guardian with a £1 cover price. The quality market has witnessed a number of price rises this year. In August, the Guardian increased its weekday cover price by 10p to £1, while the Saturday edition rose by 20p to £1.90.
Newspapers looked to offset rises in cover prices by launching discount subscription offers and home delivery schemes.
NOVEMBER
Daily Mail benefits from promotions in October ABCs
The Daily Mail’s circulation benefited from giving away free DVDs in October, helping it maintain a steady circulation year on year, according to the latest ABC numbers.
All other national newspapers, except for The Sun and the Daily Star, suffered a miserable October, particularly the quality sector, for which circulation was down 7.23% across the market.
The 50p Daily Mail registered a circulation of 2,157,085 copies, down just 0.55% year on year.
During October, the Daily Mail helped lure readers with a EuroMillions promotional competition and Hollywood icon DVDs.
The newspaper, which dominates the mid-market, has maintained a steady circulation of just below 2.2 m over the last five months.
News International scraps bulk copies of Times
News International confirmed it is scrapping distribution of its bulk copies of The Times and The Sunday Times.
The move, to take effect from January, will cut tens of thousands of copies from the UK circulation of its newspapers.
According to ABC figures, bulk copies were responsible for 47,858 copies of The Times’ circulation of 571,506 in September. The Sunday Times gave away 16,543 out of its overall circulation of 1,207,141 in the same month.
It follows a similar move by Guardian News & Media, which stopped circulating all bulk copies of The Guardian and The Observer.
Friday 13th spells end for London Lite
The London Lite published its final issue on Friday 13th November.
Associated announced a consultation on the newspaper’s future on October 27, putting 36 jobs at risk. It said at the time it was entering a consultation but did not give a specific time frame.
Steve Auckland, managing director of Associated Newspapers Free Division, admitted at the time the company was “concerned about the commercial viability” of the newspaper.
The London Lite launched in August 2006, primarily as a spoiler to News International’s thelondonpaper and to protect sales of Associated’s then sister paid-for newspaper, the Evening Standard.
Associated retains a 24.9% stake in the Standard, which was taken over by Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev in January.
Murdoch to pull newspaper content from Google
News Corp chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch said his company will remove its newspaper content from Google when it starts putting its titles’ websites behind paywalls.
In an interview with Sky News Australia, Murdoch referred to Google, Microsoft and Ask.com as “content kleptomaniacs”, and confirmed News Corp would take its newspaper websites off Google searches when it started charging for content.
Murdoch said: “There is not enough advertising in the world to go around and make all the websites profitable.
He added: “We’d rather have fewer people come to the website and pay. Consumers shouldn’t have had free news all the time…I think we’ve been asleep. It costs us a lot of money to put together good newspapers and good content. No news websites anywhere in the world are making large amounts of money.”
Media Week goes online-only under Haymarket restructure
Media Week discontinued its print edition and go online-only with immediate effect as part of a restructure of Haymarket Business Media’s Brand Media group affecting all titles in the division.
The issue cover dated 17th November was the last print edition of Media Week.
Media Week will continue online under the control of a full-time editor and draw on the resources of an enlarged Brand Republic news team.
DECEMBER
Sun circulation slips but the Daily Star is still shining
The Sun and the News of the World both suffered their respective circulations dipping below the three-million level in November.
The Sun, the biggest-selling newspaper, fell below three million for the fourth time this year, recording a circulation of 2,958,502 in November. It last fell below this level in May.
The News International daily tabloid has been battling with its sister Sunday paper, the News of the World, for supremacy as the biggest-selling paper in the UK.
The News of the World, whose circulation last fell below the three-million mark in April and May, lagged behind The Sun in November, with a circulation of 2,923,355.
But The Sun outperformed the bulk of the daily market on a year-on-year basis. Rupert Murdoch’s daily tabloid saw its circulation fall just 2.87% ahead of the daily market, which was down an average of 4.2% in November.
Richard Desmond’s 20p Daily Star was again the standout performer in the month, after its circulation rose by more than 15% to 823,476.
Tindle puts online content behind paywalls
Regional publisher Tindle Newspapers put 40 of its new 100 digital newspapers behind paywalls, following a successful trial.
Earlier this year, the group, which publishes 220 titles across England and Wales, trialled new page-turning software, PageSuite, which allows readers to read digital versions of Tindle’s print pages online.
The digital newspapers allow readers to click through these digital pages, which are separate from the free-to-access Tindle websites that do not carry exactly the same content as the newspapers.
Readers can subscribe to editions of the paid-for papers or buy a monthly, six-monthly or annual subscription using either a credit card or the payment system PayPal.
London Evening Standard falls just shy of 600,000 distribution target
The London Evening Standard just missed its target distribution of 600,000 copies in its first full month as a free newspaper, according to ABC data.
The Alexander Lebedev-owned newspaper recorded an average distribution of 596,100 in November.
The figure was made available by the London Evening Standard despite the paper switching from a monthly to half-yearly reporting regime earlier this year. It will disclose its average six-monthly circulation figure in February.
The London Weekly prepares for online launch
The London Weekly, the free weekly newspaper set to launch in the capital in February, is ramping up its presence with the unveiling of its new website on Sunday 20th December.
The content at www.thelondonweekly.co.uk will represent the upcoming publication’s mix of editorial coverage, ranging from light entertainment and gossip to politics, health, music and fashion.
A holding page for the site claims 250,000 copies of the newspaper will be distributed in London every Friday and Saturday, from 1 February.
The new venture is the result of a partnership between five private investors.
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