The only interesting point about this months numbers is that they are nearly level with this month last year – which ins a rapidly declining market is unusual. The Mirror and Daily Star are showing an increase on the previous year and even the FT is showing an increase on the previous year. There was an interesting and honest interview with Marc Vangeel chief executive of Mediahuis Ireland in the

Again, very little happening on the ABC front for February 2021. There’s no sign on the ABC changing the ‘covid rules’ and still no sign of any numbers from News UK (which is their prerogative). It will be interesting as the vaccine rolls out in the UK – when will they decide that its ok to relax the rules.  

It’s January ABC numbers and at this point, it’s a bit like Groundhog Day, which incidentally was celebrated this month. Looking at the best/worst performers is an exercise in futility as some of them are coming from a really small base in the first place – so we can safely skip that. Also, some of the metrics flatter to deceive as the comparative month is December which is normally a

December is never a good month for newspaper sales, but couple that with a lockdown and it spells disaster. Just to try and get some comparative metric I’ve totalled all the papers that are providing data and that will be compared to the previous month and year. It shows that this group (aka all bar News UK) are down 3% on the month and 10% on the year, which is