The Media in Figures: Scots comics and magazines circulation figures

SCOTS ‘consumer magazines’, including comics, registered mostly year-on-year percentage falls in their circulations, according to official audited figures.

The Audit Bureau of Circulation, in its twice-yearly review of consumer magazine circulations, found the following:

* Animals and You (99.9 per cent ‘actively purchased’), an average 33,406 at the end of December last year, down 15 per cent, year-on-year;

* The Beano (99.8 per cent ‘actively purchased’), an average 32,028 at the end of December last year, down 11.2 per cent, year-on-year;

* The Big Issue in Scotland (100 per cent), 7,238, down 19.3 per cent;

* bunkered (98.8 per cent), 23,866, down 1.8 per cent;

* Dennis & Gnasher Megazine (99.9 per cent), 20,502, down 13.4 per cent;

* The Great Outdoors (97.8 per cent), 9,034, down 7.7 per cent;

* Homes & Interiors Scotland (97.5 per cent), 8,832, down 13 per cent;

*  Jacqueline Wilson (99.8 per cent), 46,848, up one per cent;

* The List (17.8 per cent), 14,866, up 4.2 per cent;

* My Weekly (99.9 per cent), 111.519, down 1.8 per cent;

* No.1 Magazine (96.8 per cent), 16,610, down 4.5 per cent;

* People’s Friend (99.9 per cent), 240,051, up 0.1 per cent;

* Scotland in Trust (free), 186,400, up 1.2 per cent;

* Scots Magazine (99.6 per cent), 24,610, down 5.4 per cent;

* Scottish Field (85.9 per cent), 16,338, up 8.7 per cent;

* Shout (99.9 per cent), 40,115, down 9.6 per cent;

* The Skinny (free), 32,104, no change;

* Times Educational Supplement (Scotland) (85.6 per cent), 5,182, down 7.3 per cent;

* Weekly News (99.9 per cent), 28,886, down 11.5 per cent; and

* WWE Kids (99.8 per cent), 29,129, down 4.9 per cent.

Source: Audit Bureau of Circulation, February 13 2014.