In the period between July and December 2015, the UK ABC newstrade market was reported to be worth £488.6M.
In this period, the figure of £488.6M is down 10.4% year on year.
Copy sales in this period stood at £278.3M, which was down 13.0% year on year.
The smallest year on year decline was reported in the Children's Magazines and Home Interest categories.
Children's Magazines saw a 2.4% year on year decline, while Home Interest saw a 3.2% year on year decline.
The Women's Celebrity Weeklies sector primarily drove revenue decline.
The sector was down 15.9.% year on year, to £135.2M.
Also performing below the market average for the July - December 2015 period. were Women's Lifestyle/Fashion titles, and Women's Traditional Weeklies.
These two sectors are two of the top five largest, but revenues fell by 11.1% in the Women's Lifestyle/Fashion sector, and 9% in the Women's Traditional Weeklies sector.
The strongest performing sector was TV Listings (including soap titles).
This sector is now outperforming Women's Celebrity Weeklies, and has a revenue share of 17.2% at £143.0M.
In terms of subscriptions, a decline of 6.8% year on year was reported.
145.3 million subscription copies were sold in the July - December 2015 period.
Dominating the subscription market was the News & Current Affairs sector, which holds a 34.3% market share despite a 7.9% year on year decrease in subscriptions.
In the Children's Magazine sector, subscriptions increased by 13.2% to over 6.3 million copies.
The increase of subscriptions in the Children's Magazine sector was driven by First News, which accounts for 86.1% of all subscriptions in this sector.
First News generated 607, 000 additional subscriptions year on year.
TV Listings was reported as the second largest sector in terms of subscriptions; it saw a 2.5% increase in the number of subscriptions, to a total of 15.6M.
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