The penultimate month in ’15 brings little by way of cheer. The only change in the ABC’s is that they now have a new report which measures the digital editions of the papers – not that it’s going to make a huge difference here as they report a total of 110 digital sales in November in Ireland – across all titles!
Their new format is also a little confusing as the ABC report no ‘digital edition’ sales for the Sunday Times last month but the paper has a certificate for their ‘tablet edition’ where they claim over 95,000 sales in November.
Why that’s not in the digital report is beyond me, but it’s endemic in the digital world where standards (not the moral compass type) shift and terminology and acronyms change daily.
The tabloids set a few records this month and not good ones. The Daily Star at this point is perilously close to falling below 50,000, which could, projecting forward, happen around March or April of ’16. The real tragedy behind their November figure is that The Star has now slipped to just below half of its peak of 108,221 set in 2005.
Compound that with the fact that the Daily Mirror slipped onto the 30’s for the first time last month, can we begin to hear the death knell of the tabloids?
Other notables in the numbers would be the continuing collapse of the sales of the Daily Star on Sunday down now to 7,000. And the Sunday Times had a Lazarus style rebound adding 1,700 to its numbers the first decent increase they have had in many months
Title | Nov-15 | Nov-14 | Oct-15 | Y/Y | M/M | % Ch Y/Y |
Daily Mirror | 39017 | 45,095 | 40,134 | -6,078 | -1,117 | -13% |
Daily Record | 259 | 272 | 279 | -13 | -20 | -5% |
Irish Daily Star | 53,223 | 56,759 | 54,115 | -3,536 | -892 | -6% |
The Sun | 56,084 | 57,336 | 58,031 | -1,252 | -1,947 | -2% |
Tabloids | 148,583 | 159,462 | 152,559 | -10,879 | -3,976 | -7% |
Daily Express | 2,407 | 2,539 | 2,579 | -132 | -172 | -5% |
Irish Daily Mail | 46,592 | 45,103 | 47,609 | 1,489 | -1,017 | 3% |
The Daily Telegraph | 2,479 | 2,540 | 2,536 | -61 | -57 | -2% |
Financial Times | 2,313 | 2,390 | 2,335 | -77 | -22 | -3% |
The Guardian | 2,354 | 2,523 | 2,427 | -169 | -73 | -7% |
The Times | 2,488 | 2,174 | 2,502 | 314 | -14 | 14% |
Morning Market | 207,216 | 216,731 | 212,547 | -9,515 | -5,331 | -4% |
Daily Star – Sunday | 7,064 | 16,855 | 9,006 | -9,791 | -1,942 | -58% |
The Sun/NotW | 55,739 | 53,921 | 55,074 | 1,818 | 665 | 3% |
Sunday Mail | 769 | 816 | 769 | -47 | 0 | -6% |
Sunday Mirror | 28,006 | 31,662 | 28,955 | -3,656 | -949 | -12% |
The People | 10,202 | 12,469 | 10,898 | -2,267 | -696 | -18% |
Sunday Express | 3,002 | 3,080 | 3,071 | -78 | -69 | -3% |
Sunday Post | 912 | 478 | 1,066 | 434 | -154 | 91% |
The Mail on Sunday | 88,759 | 94,356 | 85,411 | -5,597 | 3,348 | -6% |
The Observer | 4,669 | 4,967 | 4,664 | -298 | 5 | -6% |
The Sunday Telegraph | 2,149 | 2,239 | 2,179 | -90 | -30 | -4% |
The Sunday Times | 81,475 | 86,290 | 79,772 | -4,815 | 1,703 | -6% |
Sunday Market | 282,746 | 307,133 | 280,865 | -24,387 | 1,881 | -8% |
Total Market | 489,962 | 523,864 | 493,412 | -33,902 | -3,450 | -6% |