Mediaweek Magazine

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 5:26pm on Monday, January 12th, 2009

On January 11, 2009, MediaWeek reported that single copy magazine sales are declining:

"Magazines’ second-half ’08 circulation reports aren’t due out for a few weeks, but the single-copy picture isn’t looking good. At a time when consumers are cutting back on discretionary spending, single-copy magazine sales declined 8 percent to 244 million in the third quarter from 266 million in the year-ago quarter, according to MagNet, which compiles magazine newsstand sales data.

Magazines’ dollar sales of $1.2 billion were down less so (2 percent) from the year-ago period, before several celebrity weeklies raised their cover prices.

For the first nine months of 2008, unit sales declined 9 percent to 718 million, with dollar sales off 2.7 percent to $3.4 billion."

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 5:01pm on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

On January 5, 2009, Mediaweek reported that Google continues to dominate the online search business:

"Google continues to widen the gap between it and all other competitors in the search race, while rival Microsoft has actually lost search users over the past year despite paying people to use its services, according to the latest figures issued by Nielsen Online.

In November of 2008 Google commanded 64.1 percent of all searches conducted on the Web in the U.S., found Nielsen, up more than six percentage points compared to the 57.7 percent share position Google held one year earlier. In fact, Google handled over 900,000 more search queries during the month of November than the previous year (4.3 million in November ‘07 versus 5.2 million in November ‘08).

Meanwhile, Microsoft actually handled over 147,000 fewer queries last November versus the same month in 2007, and as a result its market share slipped from 12 percent to 9.1 percent, per Nielsen."