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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.
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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
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
Funeral march for music mags?
Posted in Media, Branwell Johnson, Latest reporters' blogs August 16th, 2007 by Branwell Johnson
There’s a lot of focus on the steep decline in the lads’ mag market in the latest ABCs but there is another venerable sector that is suffering gradual erosion, the music magazines.
The calm after the storm
Posted in Media, Arif Durrani, Latest reporters' blogs August 10th, 2007 by Arif Durrani
Today’s ABCs suggest last month’s feverish flood reports helped fuel a circulation bounce in the tabloids. The general downward trend which has dogged the industry for the last few years, was temporarily reversed by The Sun, The Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Daily Express and The Daily Mail.
Tags Media, Print, Newspapers, ABCs
Whatever happened to newspaper loyalty?
Posted in General, Media, Arif Durrani, Latest reporters' blogs July 13th, 2007 by Arif Durrani
There was once a time when the newspaper you read was as personal, and as emotive, as the political party you voted for or the religion you ascribed to.
Tags Newspapers, Media, Print, ABCs, Independent on Sunday
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