Circulation/Viewership
- ABC Tightens Digital Edition Circulation, Subscription Rules [MediaWeek, 27 Jul 2010] Newspapers that want to count their electronic copies as paid circulation will need to demonstrate that a subscriber has made an incremental payment for their digital copies or accessed the digital edition.
- Times’ website visits fall by two thirds [guardian.co.uk, 18 Jul 2010] Charge for access to website sees newspaper’s online audience fall to 33% of its previous size.
- Global TV Subscription Fees to Top $210 Billion in 2014 [WorldScreen.com, 15 Jun] Consumers worldwide will continue to spend on TV subscriptions, reports PricewaterhouseCoopers in its latest five-year outlook.
- iPad subscriptions could boost mag circulation [AP, 16 Mar 2010] The Audit Bureau of Circulations is changing its definition of a digital magazine to accommodate the devices. The new rules allow publishers to count paid digital subscriptions.
- Twitter, Facebook use up 82 percent [Cnet News, 22 Feb 2010] According to The Nielsen Company, global consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from 2008.
- New York Times adds 1,100 Bay Area subscribers [San Francisco Biz Times, 28 Jan 2010] The New York Times has nabbed an extra 1,100 Bay Area subscribers after launching its San Francisco Bay Area section last fall
- DVR Use, Online Viewing Continue to Rise [WorldScreen.com, 7 Dec 2009] Nielsen’s latest Three Screen Report reveals that while 99% of U.S. video content is viewed on traditional television, DVR usage is up by 21.1% since Q3 2008, while online video usage is up by nearly 35%.
- Twitter Trouble : US Visitors Declining [TechCrunch, 12 Nov 2009] Twitter’s growth in the United States is stalling. In October, the number of U.S. visitors to Twitter actually declined for the first time by 8% month-over-month.
- WSJ takes top spot among daily papers [Politico, 14 Oct 2009] The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday celebrated its ascension to the position of the top-circulated U.S. newspaper, surpassing longtime No. 1 USA Today.
- Mobile Content Full of Potential for Newspapers [Editor & Publisher, 21 Sep 2009] Newspapers are leading the way in distributing content on mobile devices (almost 58 percent), followed by business magazines (45 percent) and consumer magazines (42 percent).
- Newspaper sites draw 36% of Web audience in June [5 Aug 2009] Newspaper Web sites attracted 70.3 million unique visitors in June, representing 36% of all Internet users, says a study from the Newspaper Association of America.
- UK consumers ‘watching their spending on print subscriptions and pay-TV’ [guardian.co.uk, 28 July 2009] Survey finds almost a quarter plan to cut back on on newspapers and magazines, and almost a fifth will trim spend on pay-TV.
- BBC to launch U.S. kids’ channel [Variety, 27 May 2009] CBeebies, a U.K. channel for pre-schoolers, is a huge success, and the BBC’s commercial arm sees the U.S. market as “potentially hugely lucrative.”
- WSJ to launch Japanese website [Asia Media Journal, 7 May 2009] The Japanese-language site is WSJ’s second major Asian-language site. The Journal’s Chinese-language website, Chinese.WSJ.com, was launched in 2002.
- China launches new English-language newspaper [Washington Post, 20 Apr 2009] China’s Communist Party has published a new English-language newspaper in a campaign to push the party line in international media.
- Financial Times Sees Rise in Online Subs [Journalism.co.uk, 2 Mar 2009] The Financial Times’s Web site is seeing growth in paid subscribers, according to owner Pearson’s preliminary financial results for 2008. “Growth of digital and subscription businesses and strong demand for premium content exceed decline in advertising re
- Media consumption on the increase [Guardian.co.uk, 19 April 2010] Survey finds increase in number of hours public spends watching TV, playing video games and using the internet.
