FT and UBM built environment titles release own ‘audience’ figures

Posted by Andrew Pugh on 10 February 2012 at 15:26
Tags: B2B Magazines, Journalism, Media Metrics

The Financial Times now reaches a global audience of 2.2 million, according to figures released by the newspaper today.

The figures were compiled using the FT’s own metric – the Average Daily Global Audience (ADGA) - a combination of print, online, mobile and tablet access to the FT.

In November 2011 FT.com daily had on average 900,000 unique users, a  36 per cent year-on-year increase, while the number of mobile users rose 66 per cent between May to November 2011 and the number of people accessing the FT on tablets rose 71 per cent during the same period.

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ABC: Wall Street Journal bulk circulation deals ‘complex and circuitous’ but compliant with rules

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 4 January 2012 at 12:08
Tags: Journalism, Media Metrics, National Newspapers, Newspapers

The Audit Bureau of Circulations has issued a statement following its inquiry into allegations the Wall Street Journal Europe was involved in a complex circulation-boosting scam.

It was reported in October that 31,000 out of 75,000 copies of the European edition of the WSJ were sold to companies in bulk and then distributed to students. It was also claimed that the WSJ effectively ended up buying some off the copies itself, after a sponsor pulled out, and that the deal included favourable editorial coverage. (more…)

FT raises weekday cover price to £2.50 as UK print sale halves in a decade

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 4 January 2012 at 11:49
Tags: Journalism, Media Metrics, National Newspapers

The Financial Times has raised its cover price for the second time in three months - up from £2.20 on weekdays to £2.50. The Weekend edition on Saturdays is to rise from £2.80 to £3.

The move comes amid a backdrop of rising newsprint prices and the increasing success of the FT’s digital subscriptions business. In November, the FT revealed that it now had 250,000 paying digital subscribers. (more…)

Facebook and StumbleUpon push Mail and Guardian to top of social media rankings

Posted by Press Gazette on 8 November 2011 at 15:34
Tags: Media Metrics, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers, Online

Research by the analytics company Searchmetrics has found that StumbleUpon and Facebook appear to be the top social media tools for linking to national newspaper websites.

The research looked at how often content from 12 national newspaper sites was shared on six social networking and bookmarking sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Delicious and Google) in the ten weeks up to 24 October.

Unsurprisingly, Mail Online topped the table with an average 2,908,779 links a week followed by The Guardian with 2,587,258, while The Times website, which is behind a paywall, came last with just 256 links.

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Report shows most consumer magazines increased subscriptions in 2009

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 16 February 2010 at 08:55
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Media Metrics

Most magazines increased paid-for subscriptions in 2009, according to a new report by CDS Global (a company which among other things manages subscriptions).

They say that overall there was a 0.7 per cent year-on-year increase in subscriptions in 2009 with 53 per cent of all publications increasing subscriptions levels.

According to CDS (who aren’t writing from an exactly unbiased viewpoint): “The future looks exceedingly bright for subscriptions levels, with growth continuing into 2010 and beyond.”

It underlines the point that the latest consumer magazine ABC figures appear to show a sector which has survived the recession in much better shape than the likes of broadcasting and national/regional press.

Read Press Gazette’s comprehensive magazine ABC figures round-up here.

27m users a month to bbc.co.uk, says Thompson

Posted by Press Gazette on 11 January 2010 at 11:26
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Media Metrics, New Media, Online

BBC director general Mark Thompson revealed in the latest edition of BBC in-house magazine, Ariel, that bbc.co.uk receives 27 million users each month.

Thompson said: “The website is an amazing media success, with 27 million users a month, but it has grown like Topsy and some parts are less focussed than others.” (more…)

IPC to publish web traffic figures along with print circulations

Posted by Oliver Luft on 11 August 2009 at 11:40
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Media Metrics, New Media, Online

IPC Media will this week become the first magazine publisher to report ABC web traffic figures alongside with its half-yearly audit of print circulations.

On Thursday, the publisher’s Ignite division will report traffic for nuts.co.uk, nme.com and loaded.com as part of brand group product reports showing circulation from January to June 2009.

Ignite will also produce an ABCe report for gaming site mousebreaker.com.

ABCe mulls daily online readership figures for national press

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 31 July 2009 at 09:09
Tags: Media Metrics, National Newspapers, New Media, Online

ABCe is in talks to start providing daily totals of internet users for national newspapers, according to Mad.co.uk.

Currently all the emphasis for the national newspapers is on monthly totals, with Mail Online currently leading the pack with 29 million unique users.

Some argue that is strange for the newspaper industry to use this figure, when traditionally its whole emphasis has been on daily print circulation totals.

The monthly figure can be a misleading one because it includes millions who pop in to a website once, never to return. By contrast a daily figure could give a better indication of the loyalty of readers.

Grim circulation news from US where all titles bar the WSJ plunge

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 27 April 2009 at 15:44
Tags: Journalism, Media Metrics, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers, Online

Grim news circulation-wise from the US where most of the top 25 daily newspapers in the country have reported steep falls in circulation.

Top-selling title, USA Today, is down 7.5 per cent to 2.1m, the New York Times is down 3.5 per cent to just over 1m a day; the LA Times down 6.6 per cent to just over 700,000 and The Washington Post down 1.2 per cent to 665,383.

The only paper to increase sales year-on-year is the number two-ranked title overall - the Wall Street Journal, which was up 0.6 per cent to 2,082,189.

Among the biggest fallers were the New York Daily News (down 14 per cent to 602,857), the New York Post (down 20.6 per cent to 558,140) and the Atlanta Journal Constitution (down 20 per cent to 261,828).

Eagle-eyed readers of Press Gazette will recall my interview with Bert Roughton of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Back in May last year the senior editor revealed how the title, which was then employing 435 journalists, has one of the most advanced web news operations of any US title.

ABCe: Brand Republic traffic up 176% in a year

Posted by Hannah Hudson on 13 January 2009 at 17:29
Tags: Journalism, Media Metrics, New Media, Online

Brand Republic, the media and communications website, has published its first ABCe Enhanced Certificate – revealing detailed statistics about its users.

Traffic in October 2008 was 689,480 unique users - up 176 per cent year on year.

The ABCe Enhanced Certificate brings together ABCe audited traffic data and visitor information collected via an on-site survey.

This allows digital media owners to analyse information on the age, gender and social grade of their users, as well as determining their country of residence.

Online newspapers: the figures just don’t add up

Posted by Patrick Smith on 30 September 2008 at 08:48
Tags: Media Business, Media Metrics, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers, Online

Newspapers making the shift from once-a-day print publisher to 24-hour digital hub should take note: according to one editor, online operations are underestimating the costs and overestimating the revenues of the move to online.

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ABCe could deliver mobile phone user figures

Posted by Patrick Smith on 1 May 2008 at 10:17
Tags: Media Metrics, Mobile

ABCe, the digital division of the readership measurement service ABC, could soon be publishing web traffic figures from mobile phones.

According to its weekly newsletter the auditing body has been asked by the global mobile operators’ trade association GSMA to help create industry agreed standards.

The move comes after demand from advertisers, media owners and operators who want to grow mobile as an advertising medium.