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What price a newspaper?
Posted in Media, Branwell Johnson, Latest reporters' blogs November 7th, 2008 by Branwell Johnson
It doesn’t seem to matter whether publishers slash the cover price or put it up – newspapers still ain’t selling.
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Tags Print, Newspapers, ABC results, The Sun
Why lads’ mags will survive
Posted in Media, Marketing, Branwell Johnson, Latest reporters' blogs August 15th, 2008 by Branwell Johnson
Maxim, Loaded, FHM and their ilk are struggling to stay afloat, even without the broadside from a Conservative MP condemning them for destroying family values.
Tags Maxim, Lad's Mags, Print, Loaded, FHM, ABCs, Dennis Publishing
Magazines under attack
Posted in Media, Arif Durrani, Latest reporters' blogs August 7th, 2008 by Arif Durrani
Who’d want to be a magazine publisher right now? With just a week to go before the industry’s biannual circulation report, which is expected to be bloody and already has commentators sharpening their talons, and the nation’s weeklies and monthlies are already fighting on other fronts.
Tags Magazines, Asda, Retail Newsagent, Print, Media Guardian, PPA, ABCs
Looking to the future
Posted in Media, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs March 7th, 2008 by Melinda Varley
MediaTel’s Future of Magazine’s seminar brought up some interesting topics in regards to where the magazine market is going, but is it possible to predict such a fragile market?
Celebrity TV a crazy venture?
Posted in Media, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs February 20th, 2008 by Melinda Varley
Last week’s ABC results proved that celebrity is still a hot market in the magazine world, but does it carry through to television? The makers of Kerry Katona’s latest tell-all show must think so. But why?
Tags ABC results, Kerry Katona, TV, Celebrity, OK! Magazine, MTV
Spring in the right direction
Posted in Media, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs February 14th, 2008 by Melinda Varley
On the back of it reported £9.2 million pre-tax profits, Future Publishing under the guidance of Stevie Spring has seen a 93.8 per cent rise in circulations, period-on-period. Has Spring found her calling?
Tags ABC, Stevie Spring, Future, Magazine
The Sun no longer a sizzler
Posted in Media, Branwell Johnson, Latest reporters' blogs January 11th, 2008 by Branwell Johnson
So the sun is setting on the great British tabloid – or so it would seem with The Sun dipping below the psychologically important 3 million mark for the first time.
Tags Newspapers, ABCs, Circulation, Print, Online, The Sun
The Sun left red-faced by September ABCs
Posted in Media, Arif Durrani, Latest reporters' blogs October 12th, 2007 by Arif Durrani
The Sun was the only tabloid to increase its circulation in September in today’s ABCs and yet it is the only newspaper to be left truly embarrassed by its performance.
Tags The Sun, Tabloid, Newspapers, ABCs, Print, Circulation
Daily Mail gets tangled up in the web
Posted in Media, Digital, Oliver Milman, Latest reporters' blogs August 23rd, 2007 by Oliver Milman
Does anyone else find it slightly ironic, given the Daily Mail’s usually editorial line, that the majority of its website’s users are overseas?
Tags Daily Mail, Print, Digital, ABCe, Online Publications, Media, Newspapers
Publishers’ pump up the volume
Posted in Media, Nikki Preston, Latest reporters' blogs August 20th, 2007 by Nikki Preston
As the consumer magazine ABC figures arrive in journalists’ inboxes at midday Thursday and they pounce on the actively purchased and average net circulation figures in order to find news stories, what is left out is actually which publishers are plumping up their figures with price promotions and by bundling magazines together.
Tags ABC's, Consumer Magazines, Print, Circulation Figures, Love It!, Nuts
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