Newspaper circulation will no longer be audited – but the publishers will tell the truth, right?
The Audited Media Association of Australia announced last week that it will stop its print audit services, meaning that no independent body will be counting the amount of newspapers that publishers print. Dr Mumbo diagnoses that everything will be perfectly fine, and this isn’t a harbinger of anything at all.
For those not in the wild world of print auditing, the AMAA were responsible for conducting audits of print media under two streams – the Audit Bureau of Circulations, that counted major print copies for sale in stores, and CAB auditing, the Circulation Audits Bureau, who counted papers and magazines distributed for free. None of that stuff will be done anymore.
With this huge gap in the media landscape, Dr Mumbo can happily reveal that the major and minor print publishers in Australia, all of whom are fighting for a decreasing pool of advertising money, have promised to tell the truth and the absolute truth about how many issues they print, and how widely distributed these issues are.
In unrelated news, a number of the major mastheads have this morning released updated circulation and print figures to advertisers, along with new rate cards to “best show the true scope and value of our print newspapers, which now reach 100 million happy Australians households each morning”.
Local free street press is now being distributed worldwide, which is good news for the local pubs that advertise with them, while Dr Mumbo would like to congratulate the publisher of Hogs and Guns Monthly, who we are informed is now the best-selling print magazine in Australia, moving more than 3 million issues a month. More good news for advertisers!
And people say that print is dead.
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A very impressive claim that their PR “show the true scope and value of our print newspapers, which now reach 100 million happy Australians households each morning”
That is an astounding achievement of being able to reach 100 million Australian households each morning when yesterday we had circa. 9.5m households in Australia. the day before THAT should end the housing crisis in just a day !! Keep up the good work!!
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Meh, the newspapers and ad agencies have been KNOWINGLY lying about circ and readership figures since the 00’s
Everyone knows that noone reads them any more
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