Friday, April 15, 2016

First full year of Vividata research shows magazine readership steady; more digital reading

[This post has been updated. (see below)]

The results have been released of the first full-year study of Canadian consumer magazine and newspaper readership by Vividata and it demonstrates, not surprisingly, that magazine readership remains strong, with 70% of Canadian adults  reading magazines, comparable to levels of five years ago.  And the trend to reading on digital devices continues to grow.  Never before measured is that almost half of magazine readers are now reading on a digital device. 
The research organization was founded in 2014 as an amalgamation of NADbank and the Print Measurement Bureau (PMB). The study results were based on the first full year of fieldwork of the combined organization, looking at 117 publications (73 magazines, 44 newspapers) in  a survey of 38,000 consumers across Canada from January to December 2015. The amalgamation was, at least in part, in order to allow measurement of blended and unduplicated readership results for both print and digital.

Among the other findings are that 
  • 7 out of 10 digital readers are now reading on a a mobile device at least part of the time.
  • A surprising 60% of millennials (18-34) read magazines; 16% only on a digital device; 37% only in print; almost half, both
  • Totally not surprising is that (adults 50+) remain heavy readers of magazines and newspapers
The following are the current top 10 in English and French in total net print and digital readership in thousands:

Top 10 English ('000s)


Reader's Digest 4492
Cineplex magazine 4184
Canadian Living 3834
People 3487
Canadian Geographic 3439
Chatelaine 3200
CAA Magazine 3047
Maclean's 2193
FOOD & DRINK 2144
Can. House & Home 1886

Top 10 French ('000s)
[This post has been updated:  Earlier version had incorrect sort for top 10 French titles. Our apologies.]

RICARDO Magazine 1428
Coup de pouce 1234
L'actualite 851
Touring (French & English) 791
Bel Age 745
Chatelaine (Fr) 737
Selections du Reader's Digest 704
Le Magazine Cineplex 631
Les idees de ma maison     621
Vero magazine (new) 582

Vividata overview of results and methodology for both magazines and newspapers.

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