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ABCs: Mail on Sunday sees only sales rise in June

As competition hots up for the News of the World's readers, the Mail on Sunday is in the strongest position

Posted by Joel Gunter on 15/07/11

MailOnline reaches new record for monthly browser figures

All audited news sites in today's ABC report show healthy increases, with the Independent taking second place with 18.47 per cent rise

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 23/06/11

May ABCs: Paper which identified injunction footballer scores biggest circulation increase

Audit Bureau of Circulations' monthly figures show Sunday Herald recorded the biggest month-on-month increase for May, coinciding with its publication of the identity of injunction footballer

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 10/06/11

April ABCs: Mirror sees near 25 per cent increase in online visitors

Online visitors across most titles were down month-on-month and newspaper sales up for a month that included the Royal Wedding

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 26/05/11

ABC: Mail Online hits 66m monthly browsers after 30% hike

MailOnline reached more than 65 million unique browsers in March, with the Independent and Guardian also seeing record traffic

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 28/04/11

National newspaper ABCs: Independent spin-off sees month-on-month sales drop

March's ABC figures show the Independent's spin-off title i, has the second biggest month-on-month decrease for a national morning newspaper

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 15/04/11

ABC scraps compulsory 12-month audit for Times and FT

Rule change means it is no longer mandatory for members to have audited web traffic figures published every 12 months

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 07/04/11

February ABCes: Mail Online stays top despite rare month-on-month dip

Daily Mail website retained a lead of 10m monthly unique browsers over its nearest rival despite a near 10% fall

Posted by Joel Gunter on 24/03/11

Audit Bureau of Circulations to merge print and digital operations

ABC says re-organisation will help simplify how publishers report their circulation figures across multiple platforms

Posted by Dave Lee on 21/03/11

February ABCs: i breaks 175,000 mark with 31% sales hike

Independent's spin off daily has enjoyed a February sales boost of almost a third over the previous month

Posted by Joel Gunter on 11/03/11

Only Sun and Daily Star escape readership declines across nationals

Sun remains nation's most widely read newspaper with an estimated readership of 7.72m

Posted by Joel Gunter on 28/02/11

January ABCes: Metro debuts with 5.85m monthly unique users

UK freesheet has published online traffic figures for the first time, revealing that half its users are overseas

Posted by Paul McNally on 24/02/11

Trinity Mirror's MEN purchase helps take online traffic beyond 8m

Publisher's network of online regional sites recorded a 40 per cent increase in monthly unique browsers on the first half of 2010

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 23/02/11

Magazine ABCs: Economist UK sales break 200,000 mark

Magazine's success sees it overtake Private Eye as the top UK news and current affairs title

Posted by Joel Gunter on 17/02/11

January ABCs: First figures for i show daily circulation of 133,472

The Independent's new compact daily reports its first official circulation but Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday fail to send figures in time

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 11/02/11

Community newspapers to release customisable ABC reports

US Audit Bureau of Circulations announces that two community newspapers are to release consolidated media reports for the first time

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 10/02/11

December ABCes: Mail Online sets new monthly browsers record amid falls elsewhere

Website of the Daily Mail had 53.9 unique monthly browsers in December against a backdrop of declines for other UK national newspapers

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 27/01/11

ABCs: Only Daily Star Sunday escapes December fall in UK newspaper sales

Sunday tabloid increased its daily circulation on the previous month by 1.6 per cent but every other audited title recorded a decline

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 14/01/11

November ABCes: Guardian site breaks 40m mark for monthly browsers

Guardian.co.uk enjoys biggest month-on-month increase but MailOnline retains the top spot with more than 50m monthly browsers

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 21/12/10

October ABCes: Mail Online breaks 50m monthly browser mark

Site becomes first to draw more than 50m unique browsers in a month after increasing traffic 6.7% on the previous month

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 25/11/10

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Posted by Sarah Marshall on 13 April 2012

ABCes: Independent.co.uk records biggest increase in daily browsers

The Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic (ABCe) report for September showed the biggest month-on-month increase in average daily browsers was recorded by Independent.co.uk

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 29 October 2010

paidContent: Decline in consumer magazine circulations slows

PaidContent reports consumer magazines are experiencing an increase in advertising pages and circulation fall is leveling out

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 9 August 2010

Brand Republic: FT withdraws from ABCe audits for web traffic

Financial Times has officially withdrawn from the monthly audit of UK newspapers' web traffic after launching its own own metric for measuring readers

Posted by Laura Oliver on 21 May 2010

Regional online traffic compared; Johnston Press comes out top

Johnston Press was top of the traffic charts from July-December 2009, with 384,016 daily unique browsers

Posted by Judith Townend on 25 February 2010

NMA: How pay walls could affect the ABCes

How will website traffic measurement be affected by the introduction of pay walls? Suzanne Bearne considers the impact on UK newspaper websites

Posted by Laura Oliver on 6 January 2010

Response to the ABCs results: How are mag subscriptions and sales faring in the recession?

Online magazine retailer The Magazine Group says subscription sales are increasing after ABC figures show a fall in retail sales

Posted by Helen Martin on 17 August 2009

ABC continues to verify airline copies for national newspaper circulation audit

ABC is continuing to investigate 'bulk newspaper sales' and the number of airline copies included in the audit after figures were found to have 'a wide disparity'

Posted by Judith Townend on 8 May 2009

Guardian debuts six-monthly ABCe figures for regional websites

Guardian News and Media joins Northcliffe Media by signing up for the Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic's (ABCe) six-monthly web traffic audits

Posted by Laura Oliver on 30 September 2008

RMRF: Trinity Mirror Regionals presents user profile survey results

Trinity Mirror Regionals (TMR) carried out audience research with Survey Interactive, which involved on-site questionnaires completed by 53,313 interviewees across the company's 110 regional and national websites

Posted by Laura Oliver on 25 September 2008

Independent.co.uk: Gossip sites put heat on celeb mags in latest ABCs

Sales of celebrity magazines have plunged in the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations - a result of the economic downturn and the rising popularity of online competitors

Posted by Laura Oliver on 15 August 2008

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