People magazine had the largest audience in the United States in the second quarter of 2024, with an average monthly reach of **** million people. AARP The Magazine ranked second with a reach of just under **** million, followed by Allrecipies with a total audience of just over ** million.

Online formats were the most used for weekly newspaper readership in Canada as of November 2023, according to a study on newspaper readership. A total of 59 percent of surveyed respondents stated to read newspaper content on websites or apps. Yet, despite traditional news media waning in popularity, newspapers in print format or their online counterparts were not far behind in the ranking, with 46 percent of respondents saying they read them this way.

As of 2023, smartphones were the most used devices in order to consult the news in France. Indeed, the French population increasingly rely on online websites or applications to that effect, and online newspapers have registered an increase in digital readership. More than ** percent of the readership of the popular newspaper Le Monde was digital in 2023.

The statistic shows the number of newspaper readers in the United State in 2010 and 2014, by platform. The number of adults who read newspaper content online only increased from ************ in 2010 to ************ in 2014.

Newspaper readers in the United States – additional information

Online newspapers started to gain popularity in the late *** with the rise of the internet. In parallel to this development, print media has seen its market share deteriorate over the years. Figures show a sharp decline of the print media, especially for daily newspapers in the U.S. The number of daily newspapers in the U.S. shrank by nearly ***, going from ***** in 1981 to the ***** in 2014. Daily newspaper readership in the U.S. has also dropped considerably in the last few years.This decline is not limited to the consumer's age; in the U.S., daily newspaper consumption has decreased across all age groups.

In line with this trend, the number of newspaper readers in the U.S. who read print newspaper and only print newspaper has declined between 2010 and 2014. In 2010, nearly ********** people read only print newspapers. This figure stood at about ********** in 2014. On the other hand, the number of readers who read newspaper content online increased from around ********** in 2010 to nearly ********** in 2014. The share of readers who read newspaper content online only nearly doubled during the same time period.

Despite this shift in readership between online and printed newspapers, credible and well-established newspapers brand have been able to reinvent themselves in this market. The New York Times, for example, was the most popular website of a print publication in the U.S. as of *********, and has recently reached a milestone for its online products. The New York Times Company's digital-only subscriber number has passed the *********** mark for the first time in 2015. Along with the New York Times, USA Today, Daily Mail, the Washington Post and the Guardian are leading newspapers in the U.S. in terms of unique website visitors.

The graph presents information on Number of magazines read according to consumers in North America as of September 2018, by format. The survey results show that **** percent of respondents said they didn't read any print magazines in the month preceding the study, and **** percent said the same about digital magazines.

Of the many newspapers in circulation in Australia, two are distributed nationwide, namely The Australian and The Australian Financial Review. As of September 2022, print and digital readership of The Australian averaged *** million. Meanwhile, The Australian Financial Review reached an average of approximately *** million readers.   Public trust in the news Australia’s consumers of both physical and digital news primarily consisted of older individuals belonging to the mature and baby boomer generations. As per a survey conducted over the period between January and February 2021, media outlets such as ABC News and SBS News were the most trusted news sources in Australia with ** percent and ** percent respondents admitting that they were trustworthy. Furthermore, ** percent of consumers who used newspapers as the main source stated that they trusted the news.  State and local news in Australia In yet another survey, it was found that most readers who read newspapers to access local news did so primarily due to factors such as convenience and ease of access.

This statistic shows the share of daily newspaper readership across Canada as of June 2015, broken down by age group. During the reported period, the highest readership share belonged to consumers between the ages of 35 to 49 across all regions in Canada, with 23.89 percent.

The graph shows data on the reach of popular magazines in the United States in June 2019. ESPN The Magazine had a reach of over *** million people, and ranking second was People Magazine which had a reach of ***** million.

Reach of popular magazines – additional information

ESPN The Magazine is a biweekly sports magazine published by the ESPN sports network. As of 2015, it had a circulation of almost **** million copies, the vast majority of which were sold through its subscription services. ESPN’s television network also has a large audience, with an estimated monthly household reach of ** percent during the 2014/15 sports season, a ten percent increase from the 2011/12 season.

The number of magazine readers in the United States has increased in the last four years, with an estimated total of ***** million adult readers in 2015. This has coincided with an increase in digital magazine readers, as there were ** million U.S. digital magazine readers in 2015, in comparison to *** million in 2011. ESPN The Magazine also has the largest mobile audience in the United States, with an estimated **** million unique visitors in 2016. Forbes has the second highest mobile audience, with just over **** million visitors in the same time period.

AARP The Magazine, the bi-monthly magazine published by the American Association of Retired People, AARP, had just over five million unique mobile visitors in 2016. However, it had the largest subscription circulation in the United States as it sold over **** million copies through its subscription service in 2015. This large subscription audience meant that it was ranked eighth in the list of magazines with the largest audience in the United States in July 2016.

The newspaper with the highest print circulation in the United States in the six months running to September 2023 was The Wall Street Journal, with an average weekday print circulation of 555.2 thousand. Ranking second was The New York Times, followed by The New York Post. The paper in the ranking with the highest year-over-year drop in circulation was The Denver Post with a decline of 25 percent (although Buffalo News recorded a higher drop, data does not refer to September 2022 to September 2023, see notes).

The distribution of the audience of magazine brands in the United States in 2020 showed that whilst print and digital editions of magazines attracted the largest number of readers with ** percent of users, access through mobile web or video is on the rise. In the period running from December 2018 to December 2019, ** percent of magazine access was via mobile web. That figure increased to ** percent in the year running to December 2020.

Checking the news online via mobile devices is becoming the norm among French press readers. Smartphones were indeed the most used devices to that effect in France. If most French newspapers recorded an increase in interest in digital press, the newspaper Le Parisien & Aujourd'hui en France ranked first with a **** percent evolution from 2022 to 2023.

As of 2023, the digital readership of the French newspaper Le Figaro accounted for **** percent of the overall readership, which represents a sharp in comparison to the previous year. Online news has been getting more traction as an increasing number of French people rely on mobile devices in order to check the news.

The statistic shows the distribution of the print newspaper audience in the United States in 2016, by generation. According to the source, ** percent of print newspaper readers in 2016 were part of the Boomer generation who are aged 50 to 69.

From March 2020 to March 2021, The Australian recorded an audience of just under **** million for its printed edition. By comparison, the Herald Sun had approximately **** million readers, whereas the Daily Telegraph had **** million.

 Australian print mediascape 

Australia’s fluctuating newspaper market has continued to decelerate since 2015 hitting an all-time low value of **** billion Australian dollars in 2020. Environmentalists argue that it’s an effective means to saving trees and many others tout print media as a dying industry. However, the country’s most popular national newspaper, The Australian, continues to cater to *** million readers. Furthermore, the print magazine segment also saw an increase in subscriptions with a total of **** million readers nationwide as of 2018.

 Consumer demographics 

In spite of the decline in print news media, the share of subscribers of printed newspapers in Australia aged under **, rose from ** percent in 2016 to ** percent in 2018, equaling the share of subscribers older than 35 years. Moreover, the trust garnered by newspapers rose to ** percent of consumers using newspapers as their main source having stated that they trusted the news in 2021.

This statistic illustrates the circulation and daily readership of the Washington Times (Washington, D.C.) in the United States in 2012. The Washington Times had a print circulation of ***** thousand in 2012.

In 2023, the digital readership of the French newspaper Les Echos has sharply increased and reached a total of **** percent readership. That phenomenon can be partially explained by the fact that the coronavirus outbreak has led many French consumers to check up the news by reading the press more often than before.

This statistic shows the penetration of print media in Spain 2017. Magazines ranked as the print media with most readers, holding approximately ** of the share. Newspapers take up **** percent of the total print media penetration in 2017.

The statistic presents information on the number of People Magazine readers in the United States in March 2015, by platform. The magazine reached ***** million readers over the mobile web.

As of June 2024, The Wall Street Journal had over 4.3 million paying subscribers. The majority were online-only subscribers, whilst print readers continued to fall. The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal is a well-respected international newspaper that focuses on business, economics, and politics. The publication is generally seen as a trustworthy source of news and information, with about twice as many people deeming it trustworthy as those that consider it untrustworthy. While measures of trustworthiness can suffer from bias associated with political leanings, accuracy is generally more easily verifiable and thus arguably a better metric for assessing publications of any type. In terms of accuracy, the Wall Street journal ranks extremely high with only around ten percent of people finding it to be inaccurate. Newspaper circulation The Wall Street Journal, as well as The NYTimes, have both successfully managed to cater to both print and digitally focused consumers by becoming multiplatform publications. This is an undoubtedly clever (and perhaps necessary) move in an era where print popularity has waned significantly, as digital readership takes over. The accessibility of smartphone news apps and online news publications have made it difficult for physical newspapers to compete, and although the majority of newspaper circulation revenue still comes from print offerings, companies that wish to continue in the market have been forced to adapt their business strategies to accommodate online-only readers.

As of June 2024, the News UK paper with the highest average print readership was The Sun (Mon-Sat), with over 1.9 million people having read or looked at an average issue of the publication. The Times had an average readership of under one million in the same time period.