Radio has recently released its latest Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR) figures and results have been very impressive. Despite a decline in overall listening in Q2, the good weather being most likely to blame, almost 90% of the UK population has tuned in. Commercial radio continues to stay ahead of the BBC, with the networked […]
It’s musical chairs in the newspaper market
It’s recently been announced that Paul Dacre, the controversial editor of the Daily Mail for the last 26 years, is stepping down in November, while the current editor of the Mail on Sunday, Geordie Greig, has been announced as his successor. Despite the Mail on Sunday being seen as the sister paper to the Daily, […]
NRS is dead, long live PAMCo
National Readership Survey (NRS) was the gold standard in press readership research for over 60 years, however latterly it had struggled to keep pace with the changing digital world. That started to change just over 3 years ago when Publishers Audience Measurement Company (PAMCo) won the contract to take over from NRS. While NRS was […]
Latest ABC results for consumer titles have been released and show that the sector isn’t all doom and gloom…
The Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) recently released their bi-annual audit on consumer magazine circulations and despite some ups and downs in individual sectors, overall the results for consumer magazines have been quite good. The market is only down 1.5% period-on-period (PoP) and 4.1% year-on-year (YoY). That said, yet again it’s the once buoyant women’s […]