Latest ABC Magazine and Newspaper Sales Figures: January - December 2018 (UPDATED PG2)

NickSCFC

After Christmas Name Change wrote:That last graph is projected stats... and it's from the past.

My language was future-tense, and it did accurately predict the demise of the Independent print version.

Interesting to see whether or not online revenue is making up for plummeting print sales.

I tend to read the Mail Online and the Guardian sites in the morning, the former constantly recycling articles and the latter constantly begging me for handouts.

Some additional figures released by Future (rather than ABC) on their website. They’re claiming to advertisers the following circulations:

EDGE: 16,000
RetroGamer: 26,120
GamesMaster: 19,000

GamesTM: 28,928 (readership; circulation still undisclosed)

So on this basis, RetroGamer is now Future’s best selling videogames magazine, which begs the question why you wouldn’t officially audit it. Big increases supposedly by GamesMaster over the 2014 audit as well.

KK wrote:Some additional figures released by Future (rather than ABC) on their website. They’re claiming to advertisers the following circulations:

EDGE: 16,000
RetroGamer: 26,120
GamesMaster: 19,000

GamesTM: 28,928 (readership; circulation still undisclosed)

So on this basis, RetroGamer is now Future’s best selling videogames magazine, which begs the question why you wouldn’t officially audit it. Big increases supposedly by GamesMaster over the 2014 audit as well.

They’re DEFINITELY not correct.

Pell wrote: They’re DEFINITELY not correct.

... I wonder why Edge would quote them? Could the numbers be "readership" rather than "sold copies"?

I would be surprised if Retro Gamer and gamesTM held that much of a lead over Edge; although they deserve to, in my opinion!

NickSCFC

Mail Online's viewership has fallen by a fifth in the past year

https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/national ... september/

Mail Online has seen its audience fall by nearly a fifth year-on-year to more than 11.4m, according to new ABC figures.

The UK’s largest news website recorded a 19 per cent drop in the number of daily average unique browsers on its website in September, compared with the same month last year.

News websites audited by ABC all fell last month, including The Sun, Reach (comprising the Mirror, Express and Star titles) and Mail stablemate Metro.

I wonder if that's due to the changes at Facebook.

I think so. A lot were hit by the Facebook changes.

NickSCFC

I get my morning news through the Google News app on my phone, so I don't know whether clicks on there count as hits.

The real news here is the % decline with Mail being the heaviest.

The latest batch of figures, which are now just extremely bad for the remaining gaming titles, not that there's really much to celebrate anywhere else either, though T3 has gone up and Stuff has crashed under its new owners:

(1st Jan 2018 - 31st Dec 2018; comparisons with 1st Jan to 31st Dec 2017)

Playstation Official Magazine: 21,117 (down from 25,190)
Official Xbox Magazine: 14,813 (down from 16,421)
PC Gamer: 12,708 (down from 15,259)

And the rest...

(Average either from 1st January to 31st December 2018, or 1st July 2018 to 31st Dec 2018; comparisons against the last thread 1 year ago)

GQ Magazine: 110,063 (down from 115,006)
Men's Health: 146,785 (down from 175,683)
Top Gear Magazine: 100,025 (down from 103,489)
T3: 38,076 (Up from 36,991)
Stuff: 39,953 [size=85](down from 54,492) (weird size glitch in the forum code! Stuffed!)
Wired: 50,028 (Up from 50,024)
EMPIRE: 93,038 (down from 109,654)
Total Film: 34,146 (down from 38,791)
Sainsbury's Magazine: 147,984 (down from 164,980)
Waitrose Magazine: 693,840 (Up from 691,975; free for card holders)
The Sunday Times Travel Magazine: 57,856 64,060 (down from 64,060)
BBC Music: 30,010 (down from 32,885)
Country Life: 41,698 (Up from 41,314)
Radio Times: 580,709 (down from 631,960)
What's On TV: 824,006 (down from 895,925)
TV Choice: 1,161,116 (down from 1,188,558)
Private Eye: 233,869 (down from 246,628)
OK! Magazine: 149,142 (down from 165,583)
Take A Break: 463,495 (down from 497,349)
Hello! Magazine: 237,736 (Up from 234,655)
Closer: 178,806 (down from 189,577)
Grazia: 102,585 (down from 102,859)

NickSCFC

KK wrote:Playstation Official Magazine: 21,117 (down from 25,190)
Official Xbox Magazine: 14,813 (down from 16,421)
PC Gamer: 12,708 (down from 15,259)

Damn

I think apart from the small bump around the start of next gen these will be gone in two years.

Not bought OPSM for a while now, I'd have liked the E3 issue but putting the E3 section in a separate magazine was just offputiing.

KK wrote:Hello! Magazine: 237,736 (Up from 234,655)

I bought a Sunday Times a few weeks ago and it was probably the first bit of print media I had bought in over 5 years.

I'm surprised any of these titles have lasted this long in all honesty.

The only magazine I still buy is Empire. And that's only because I like to read a magazine while having a gooseberry fool.

The fluctuating price points of OPM and OXM on the high street because of the gifts is either speeding up their decline or slowing it down, because you are then very reliant on the gifts being great otherwise you're never going to pick it up when an issue is £7.

OXM the other month gave away a music CD and brilliant Resident Evil pin badge, but it was exclusively in WHSmith.

PC Gamer will definitely be the next magazine to go, though will they retain the website?

Dang, videogame mags are almost gone. I've been a fan since their heyday in the 80s and 90s but they've gotten thinner - although, to be fair, they have hardly any advertising now - and they have forged few links with the new online world. I'm amazed that Future hasn't built strong links between the mags and dedicated online websites; their Gamesradar+ site is all that's left and it doesn't, in my opinion, have content or character that's worth looking at.

I'm not helping because, after being a subscriber for over five years, I'm about to cancel my OPM sub. I've had subs to games mags since the 90s so it's a sad moment. OPM is a decent mag but, in my opinion, not worth the £6 (albeit cheaper for subscribers) asking price. I've put the cash towards a monthly Netflix sub (which I've never had before!) instead.

jawafour wrote: I've put the cash towards a monthly Netflix sub (which I've never had before!) instead.

And now that your neighbour has gone, you will be able to hear the movies and TV shows that you watch.

Moggy wrote:...And now that your neighbour has gone, you will be able to hear the movies and TV shows that you watch.

True, Moggy... it will be great :toot:

. Albeit the new(ish) neighbours downstairs are more than making up for neighbour-bloke leaving.

jawafour wrote:
Moggy wrote:...And now that your neighbour has gone, you will be able to hear the movies and TV shows that you watch.

True, Moggy... it will be great . Albeit the new(ish) neighbours downstairs are more than making up for neighbour-bloke leaving.

I’m glad the money spent on glitter bombs will not be wasted.

I stopped buying Total Film because they kept dicking around with the price, one month it would be £4.50, and the next it would be £5.99!

Why do we miss simple times? I miss buying magazines to hear the latest news or see the latest screen shots of new games. What’s that all about. We have it on our finger tips but yarn for a time when you had to wait and wait, and ultimately still know very little about a game or film. A pointless, shitty free gift on a magazine as well. Why were we so excited about them?

Also video rentals. I really miss going to blockbuster, choices or <insert independent here> And renting a video. What’s that all about. I can download it now straight away for pretty much the same price as it cost to rent it physically 15 years ago.

I think it’s because they also created moments, anticipation and experiences around doing those tasks. It’s the same with the cinema. Everything became a big deal, whereas so much these days is consumed quickly and immediately - then basically chucked, moving onto the next thing.

There’s something to be said for tangibility.

Latest ABC Magazine and Newspaper Sales Figures: January - December 2018 (UPDATED PG2)

Who is online

Affiliates