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Monthlies give weeklies a run for their money in ABC’s
15 Feb 2008
Overall total annualised circulation is up 134 million copies or 8.6 per cent year on year.
While total annual actively purchased sales are slightly down by 1.1 per cent, annual consumer expenditure has remained relatively flat at £1.98bn. Monthlies have performed impressively over the last year, with sales up 0.5 per cent, and consumer expenditure up by £2.1m.
DHL Global Mail joins PPA Strategic Partnership scheme
04 Feb 2008
DHL Global Mail, an international mailing and delivery solution provider, has joined Royal Mail, St. Ives Web, Polestar and RBS as PPA’s latest Strategic Partner.
PPA welcomes Brown’s public support for free press
27 Sep 2007
PPA has welcomed a speech by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in which he gave his support to a free press governed by a self-regulatory system, with the possibility of a future ‘freedom of expression audit.’
Guildford and Godalming become magazine laboratory
21 Sep 2007
Guildford and Godalming have been selected as a magazine ‘laboratory’ in a unique experiment to examine magazine buying and reading habits in the UK as part of PPA’s industry initiative, Magazine Week. The two areas will become jointly known as ‘Magazine Town’. Rodborough Technology College in Godalming has been selected as the UK’s first ‘Magazine School.’
Magazines firmly afloat despite ABC leak
16 Aug 2007
Following the leak of ABC figures last Friday, there has been widespread adverse publicity as to the state of the consumer magazine industry. However, the truth is somewhat less alarming.
PPA briefing to journalists following leak of ABC data on Friday
15 Aug 2007
ABC data will show magazine sales holding up well
Women's sector says Grazia to ABCs
15 Feb 2007
ABC figures released today reveal an increase of 0.8 per cent in the volume of issues actively purchased in the UK in 2006. Despite the relatively flat nature of the market, there were some impressive performances for both individual titles and specific sectors.
Consumer magazine market grows by 51m copies according to ABCs
17 Aug 2006
ABC figures released today reveal that the total volume of consumer magazines circulated over the past 12 months increased by an impressive 51m copies or 3.5 per cent. The number of copies actively purchased in the last 12 months increased by 12.3m copies or one per cent as the weeklies market continues to show impressive results.
MPs updated on magazine display guidelines
30 Jun 2006
PPA is writing to MPs who signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) on the display of offensive materials, to remind them about recent Home Office sanctioned guidelines on displaying ‘lads mags.’ The move comes following the 10 minute rule bill laid down today by Labour MP Claire Curtis-Thomas, who has called for legally binding measures to ensure that magazines containing sexually-explicit material are kept out of sight of children.
Government should engage public on internet copyright threat
16 Jun 2006
Content publishers and Government should work together to raise public awareness of the growing threats from illegal or unauthorised use of copyright works, said Andrew Yeates, intellectual property advisor to PPA and the Association of Online Publishers (AOP), in giving evidence to an influential committee of MPs chaired by Conservative MP John Whittingdale.
Murray receives top award at PPA Publishing diploma graduation
12 Jun 2006
Ceri Murray publisher at BBC Magazines, was presented with the Felix Dennis award for top graduate of the PPA Diploma in Publishing 2006, at a ceremony at The Savoy Hotel last night (7 June).
PPA Awards for editorial and publishing excellence announced
04 May 2006
The winners of the 26th PPA editorial and publishing excellence awards were announced last night with The National Magazine Company's Good Housekeeping, Reed Business Information's Farmers Weekly and Chemistry World, published by Royal Society of Chemistry, scooping the top prizes in their respective categories.
More delay preferable to "wrong decision" say publishers
13 Mar 2006
The decision by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) that it is to provide the opportunity for publishers, wholesalers and retailers to engage in further discussions before giving its final opinion on the distribution of newspapers and magazines was today given a cautious welcome by newspaper and magazine publishers and wholesalers.
Advertisers to benefit from ‘parentally approved’ medium
21 Feb 2006
The case for advertising in ‘parentally approved’ but ‘under utilised’ children's magazines is being taken to advertising agencies, following the launch of a ground-breaking new report by PPA's Children’s Group.
MPs awake to Presstream threat as publishers called to action
14 Feb 2006
Magazine publishers need to take action to avoid sleepwalking into higher postal charges for magazine delivery, according to Keith Jones, chairman of PPA's Postal strategy group. The chief executive of Reed Business Information was speaking about a Parliamentary Early Day Motion, urging the Government to pressure postal regulator Postcomm to look again at its controversial recommendation to remove the second class magazine delivery service, Presstream 2 from price control.
Privacy advice made public for publishers
13 Feb 2006
Deciding when to publish pictures and stories about celebrities is increasingly difficult for magazine publishers since the introduction of the Human Rights Act, but by following a practical risk assessment, magazine publishers can minimise the risk of libel action. This is the advice of Chris Hutchings, partner at M-Law, in launching the PPA Privacy and publishing handbook, which is being mailed to magazine publishers this week.
Advertising in magazines is child’s play
27 Jan 2006
Targeting children through magazines should be easy as 1,2,3, according to new PPA research. The ground-breaking new report, titled Children and magazines: the benefits of advertising, commissioned by PPA Children’s Publications group, demonstrates that children’s magazines are an ideally placed medium to reach the younger generation and present an excellent vehicle for advertisers.
Concerned magazine publishers lobby MPs over postal regulator folly
20 Jan 2006
MPs, the length and breadth of the country, are being petitioned by concerned magazine publishers, in an effort to avert a “gross injustice” caused by controversial proposals from postal regulator, Postcomm. The regulator has recommended that all regulatory protection should be removed from the second class magazine delivery product Presstream 2, sparking a call from PPA chief executive Ian Locks for PPA members to take action in the hope that Postcomm can be persuaded to reverse its recommendation. PPA urged members to write to their MPs about the issue, to point out that that the competitive market for Presstream is not sufficiently developed to justify such a move. So far, member publishers have enthusiastically taken up the call, with dozens writing to their elected representatives.
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