November ABC Irish Newspaper circulations 2013

A fairly grim month for the Tabloids, again. Whatever it was about the month all the titles suffered. The Sun back nearly 3,400 copies (about 5%) and The Daily Star recording a 1,600 drop. The Mirror was the surprise of the month adding 1,800 to its numbers. Collectively the tabloids were down nearly 3,000 copies – and history shows that it won’t get any better next month. The Sun is currently perilously close to a drop into the physiological bad lands of sub 60,000 copies– something their sales force would prefer not to see. All the Sunday tabloids were in

Johnston Press Irish Titles for sale?

All very interesting in the regional’s where Mediaforce (represents regional newspapers to advertising agencies and major advertisers (Mediaforce Titles) are making a play for the Republic Of Ireland titles of Johnston Press for a suggested €8.5m in cash. The current Johnston portfolio is Dundalk Democrat, Leinster Leader, Leinster Express, Leitrim Observer, Longford Leader, Kilkenny People, Limerick Leader, The Nationalist and Munster Advertiser, Tipperary Star and The Echo. Mediaforce here represent over 50 regional titles in the Republic. Their job would be essentially to be the voice of those titles to advertising agencies and large brands. The make it easier for

UK Newspaper Readership 2013_Q3

Here’s a very quick look at the latest NRS survey in the UK released yesterday. Readership of the print edition combined with comscore data on their respective websites gives a PAAD – Print And Digital Data or a news title’s ‘brand footprint’ –their total readership across print and electronic media. In terms of print readership, The Sun is by far the best read paper in the UK at 6.1m readers every day, nearly 1.5m readers ahead of its closest rival the Daily Mail. The best read paper in the UK reaches 12% of the population whereas here the best read

Irish Online Newspaper Readership

I normally keep a tighter rein on the outpourings of comscore, but have been sadly remiss of late and missed two gems from an Irish perspective- it’s a sad reflection that we have to look to a US based organisation to get some solid figures on Ireland. The research was conducted in September 2013 and shows that eight out of ten Europeans visited News & Information site in September. The Nordic countries lead the way taking the top three spots, followed then by Ireland with 96% of Irish internet users visiting a News & Information site that month. It interesting

October 2013 Newspaper ABC’s

The October ABC’s were released earlier today and show a continued decline of newspaper sales, for those that produce a monthly figure anyway. As a group the tabloids are still taking a beating, down 21,000 year on year and close to 4,000 month on month with The Daily Mirror contributing nearly half of that drop. The Daily Mail is down just shy of 3,000 on the month with the morning market down 7,500 on the month and 23,000 on the year. Looking at the Sundays, The Sun (Sunday) manages a rare gain, adding 1,400 to their numbers but is still

ABC Irish Newspaper Circulations September 2013

Just to recap – there are two distinct ABC reports – a monthly report, in which twelve morning newspapers available in Ireland subscribe to and equally twelve of the Sunday’s provide data for. Three mornings and three Sundays only provide data on a six monthly basis to complete the lofty sounding ‘Island of Ireland’ report, a report which is given acres of space in print and way too much weight – and I stand guilty as accused on that front. The monthly data correlates very highly with the overall market and should be given equal provenance. However, the argument would

Comreg Data 2013 q2

The latest Comreg statistics were released and as usual, throw up an array of data, too much to be all consumed here, but for a quick scan of the numbers I have taken out some of the salient points. As with the data every quarter some of the numbers can be a little confusing, solely down to the rules pertaining to the data collection. For example we have a mobile penetration of 118% in Ireland (more mobiles than every man, woman and child in the country).The reasons for that is that they are based on SIMS which are also used

Post Sun Paywall

The Sun dipped behind a paywall on 1st August and its first audited figures for that month would normally be available today – but they pulled a fast one and withdrew from the ABC e-audit seemingly. Prior to going behind the paywall, The Sun’s website had average daily uniques of 1.8m, with an average of just below eight page view per visitor. The Mirror on the other hand was always about 30% behind The Sun numbers coming in at 1.4m unique per day pre-paywall. It’s interesting to note that about 40% of the visitors to the Mirror sites are “mobile”

August 2013 ABC Newspaper Circulations

For the tabloids, August with the start of the premier league couldn’t have come quick enough. A large group of soccer supporters seemingly regained their interest in tabloids this month and in the mix there are probably a scattering of GAA supporters too, loyal to the true faith and not concerned with the ‘foreign game’ at all! Two big GAA games in August both featuring the metropolitans would have to have definitely added a few copies in the capital. Even the Daily Express, not noted for its GAA coverage, managed an increase in August. Gainers seriously outweighed fallers this month

Irish Newspaper prices

There are the newspaper prices of Irish Newspapers, Daily, Weekend Editions and Sundays Papers. They will be updated as regularly as necessary:

Irish Newspaper Readership JNRS 2013

Without the fanfare that used to accompany the release of the JNRS the figures they nonetheless surfaced this morning. This book is different to previous years in the respect that it measured newspaper readership across two medium, print and online. These two figures are then combined to give a “brand footprint” – the total reach of a news brand. Whilst it’s a welcome move on behalf of the industry and one that perhaps should have been address some years back, there are some particularly irksome aspects to the survey. Although the various stakeholders in the survey go to great lengths

UK Newspaper Readership 2013

The NRS, the UK equivalent to the JNRS here, was released on the 23rd August. The survey is similar to our own (now) in that it takes account of readership of a paper in both print and online. It also makes for interesting data. Looking to the future of news organisations first: We see that the most visited news website in the survey is the Daily Mail reaching 2,110,000 UK citizens (subjects) every day (the survey data is limited to the UK only) This is followed by the Guardian at 1,391,000 visitors a day and then the Telegraph at 815,000

RTE web audit October 2012

Stuck in the ABC data yesterday was the web data for rte.ie and interesting reading it makes. The audit is for October 2012 and we have comparative data for October 2011. The state broadcasters site is visited on average by 443,000 unique browsers (roughly equivalent to people) every day and 4.8m browsers every month. There are 3.9m pages read every day and 121m every month. Compared to last year the total number of unique visitors is up 6% but their engagement has slipped marginally as the total number of pages viewed per day is down 2% both per day and

RTE Web Statistics October 2012

RTE Web Statistics October 2012 Serverd: Daily October 2012 % Daily October 2011 % +/- Total Browsers 443,993 100% 419,054 100% 6% Total Page Impressions 3,910,703 100% 3,978,646 100% -2% Pages Per Browser 9 9 0% Total Web Browsers 310,257 70% 342,538 82% -9% Total Web Page Impressions 1,947,890 50% 2,457,386 62% -21% Pages Per Browser 6 7 -14% Total App Browsers 133,736 30% 76,516 18% 75% Total App Page Impressions 1,962,813 50% 1,521,260 38% 29% Pages Per Browser 15 20 -25% Requested Downloads 22,386 40,168 -44% AV Plays 177,066 268,752 -34%

ABC Jan June 2013

The ABC Island of Ireland report was published today finally detailing the state of the newspaper market. It shows that all of the markets declined in the past twelve months. Sundays are down 9% to 834,000, mornings down 7% to 495,000 and Evenings back 6% to 73,000. Whereas the rate of decline had been lessening in the last few reports, this one reverses that trend with all markets showing a greater percentage drop than recent reports. Market JJ 2013 JJ 20122 Diff ‘000 Diff % Total Sunday 834,374 915,575 -81,201 -9% Total Morning 495,873 534,336 -38,463 -7% Total Evening

ABC Jan June 2013 Sunday Newspapers

The Sunday newspaper market dropped 9% or 81,000 copies compared to Jan June 2012. Similar to the morning market the tabloids have taken the brunt of that decline having fallen about 40% since 2005 whereas the non-tabloids have dropped about half of that in the same period. The Sunday Independent remains the market leader selling 232,000 every Sunday. It dropped 3% on the same period last year and given that the market dipped 9% it, in some respects, outperformed the market. It’s followed by the Sunday World at 211,000 having lost 7% or 15,000 year on year. You can

ABC Jan June 2013 Morning Newspapers

The morning market figures show declines across the board but in varying degrees. The total market is down 7%, or a few copies shy of 40,000 in comparison to the same six months in 2013. The biggest faller was The Daily Star which lost 11% (8,500) of its circulation. The Financial Times also lost 13% but it’s coming from a very low base in the first place. In the other tabloids The Sun fell 10% and The Mirror 5% The tabloids have very much suffered at the hands of the recession. Collectively, they are down about 40% compared to

ABC Jan June 2013 Evening Newspapers

I stuck to my guns on this one and shepherded the Evening Herald into the ‘Evening Market’. I appreciate that it now appears early morning but I’d hate to break with tradition. As normal there’s little to say about the evening figures. The Echo is down 2,000 copies or 12%, close to the drop of its morning stalemate. The Herald is down 4% or 2,600 copies which may raise an eyebrow or two. Given all the fanfare of its move to a hybrid morning/evening publication, one has to ask if it was worth it. Graphically one could say perhaps initially,

UK Digital Editions ABC’s

The ABC just released the Consumer Magazine Report, which details the circulation figures of some 250 magazine titles available in the UK and Ireland. Unfortunately there is no breakdown of the RoI so there’s not a huge deal if interest in the figures here in the main. Nonetheless there are some interesting points that are worth highlighting. The biggest distributed magazine in the survey was Tesco magazine with 1.9m copies distributed every month. This is followed by magazines from rivals Asda and Morrisons and all three magazines distributed free throughout their stores. The biggest paid for magazine was TV Choice

ABC Newspaper Circulation July 2013

July ABC shows some very small gains in the tabloid sector. The tabloid market is up 500 copies on the month but 18,000 down on the year. The leaderboard changed, yet again, with The Sun now in the premier position. The Daily Mail looks, on the surface, as if it dropped inexplicably, but its simply smoke and mirrors. Their bulks this month were just over 2,000 as opposed to 7,000 the previous month which accounts for the drop. On the back of the accounting sleight of hand the morning market is down 4,000 on the month and 22,000 on the

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