All posts tagged: Magazines

How one company built £14m business by buying up flagging B2B titles

How one company built £14m business by buying up flagging B2B titles

Published by Sam Flores

Datateam homepage on 13 April 2026 A Kent-based communications business has grown to over £14m in turnover by acquiring more than 70 underperforming specialist magazines. Many of its print titles, such as Process and Control Engineering and School Building, are incredibly niche. Datateam has spent twenty years buying up small to medium-sized specialist titles, expanding them through events and newsletters while reducing their print costs where possible. Most of the mainly monthy titles Datateam has acquired have been at risk of slipping out of profitability. “We’d like to consider ourselves to be one of the largest independently-owned publishing media businesses in the UK,” Datateam media director Paul Ryder said, having managed to turn “a lot of these acquisitions” into “profitable magazines”. This revenue is made through print and online advertising across newsletters and websites (sponsored takeovers, banners and button ads), as well as through paid subscriptions, which, for a free magazine, “guarantees that you can receive a printed copy”. “Our goal would be that anyone who wanted a printed copy, we’ll send it to them, …

Biggest selling magazines in UK in 2025

Biggest selling magazines in UK in 2025

Published by Sam Flores

Magazines on the newsstand. Picture: Press Gazette Only 11 UK magazines grew their actively-purchased print sales in 2025, according to the latest data from ABC on the biggest-selling magazines in the UK. Monthly title Autosport grew its paid-for print circulation by 175% to 13,916. Fashion and lifestyle monthly Harper’s Bazaar grew its paid print circulation by 22% to 30,547 and The Week Junior grew by 9% to just under 40,000 copies per week. Other print success stories included: The Spectator (up 3% to 55,191), Homes & Gardens (up 4% to 41,470) and Women’s Health (up 5% to 39,945). The other 120 magazine titles with actively-purchased print sales recorded by ABC lost circulation, with the average rate of decline running at around 9%. The biggest fallers were Reach-owned OK! Magazine (22,783) and New! (23,187). The celebrity news weeklies were down 28% and 24% respectively year on year. TV Choice was the UK’s biggest selling magazine in 2025 selling 850,169 copies per week on average (down 5% year on year). This was followed by What’s On TV …

New subs technology helps Spectator reach 198-year sales high

New subs technology helps Spectator reach 198-year sales high

Published by Sam Flores

Spectator front page The Spectator was the only current affairs magazine audited by ABC to grow both print and digital sales in 2025 – rising to the highest total sale in its 198-year history. Meanwhile, Private Eye remains the biggest selling UK current affairs title with fortnightly sales of 225,642 (down 3.1% year on year). The Economist remains a global journalism success story with worldwide sales up 1.2% to 981,746. Scroll down for full table listing UK current affairs magazine sales in 2026. Due to changes in ABC regulations, many publications boosted their totals by being allowed to count readers who receive both print and digital editions of publications twice in the overall circulation total. This was not the case for The Spectator (which de-dupes print and digital readers) or The Economist (its 981,746 digital subscriptions total includes those who also receive the print edition). Private Eye does not have a digital edition. Circulations have also been boosted for some titles (not The Spectator or The Economist) by readership on “all you can read” Spotify-style …

Evie Magazine’s Brittany Hugoboom Wants Women to Have It All (With Some Caveats for Vaccines, Hormones, and Abortions)

Evie Magazine’s Brittany Hugoboom Wants Women to Have It All (With Some Caveats for Vaccines, Hormones, and Abortions)

Published by Sam Flores

Such is the world of Evie, the magazine founded by Hugoboom, a former model with big brown eyes and pillowy lips that would look appropriate on the cover of a romance novel. At Cafe Cluny, her hyperfeminine style—she’s always gravitated to dresses, she says—is on display with a slinky, décolletage-oriented dress and long, wavy hair. Her business partner is her husband, Gabriel Hugoboom, who she met when they were both 18-year-olds at University of Dallas. Today they are both 34-year-old residents of Midtown Manhattan, where they moved a year ago from Florida, and parents to two toddler girls. He’s CEO and handles operations; she oversees editorial. Evie has a staff of 12 people, all women save for Hugoboom’s assistant, who is a man. The couple also own 28, a wellness app for menstrual cycles backed by Peter Thiel’s Thiel Capital, and Sundress.co, which carries their Raw Milkmaid Dress. (Both have been advertisers in Evie.) “Sometimes people are like, What are they doing? Because it just feels very out there, but we kind of merge the …

Arkansas Puts Complete Ban on Incoming Books, Magazines, Other Materials for Incarcerated Individuals

Arkansas Puts Complete Ban on Incoming Books, Magazines, Other Materials for Incarcerated Individuals

Published by José Betancourt

In what is one of the cruelest policies passed in this era of rampant book censorship, and one that flies in the face of long-documented research on the tools that best reduce recidivism, Arkansas will ban all physical books, magazines, and newspapers coming into prisons for individuals starting February 1. This is the strictest ban on sending reading material to prisons in the country. Advocates worry this will launch similar efforts nationwide. “If it gets enacted in Arkansas, then Texas and other states kind of ping pong off each other when it comes to these draconian policies,” explains Kaleem Nazeem, Co-President of decARcerate. This group helps formerly incarcerated individuals organize and activate against the prison-industrial complex. “This could have a disastrous effect on people in other states, especially in the southern region.” Censorship thrives in American prisons. It is the number one First Amendment violation in the country. Between ever-shifting policies on what can and cannot enter into prison facilities, a lack of libraries and trained library workers on site, exorbitant costs for access to …

The Fence fundraiser to boost investigative journalism

The Fence fundraiser to boost investigative journalism

Published by Sam Flores

An illustration for The Fence’s Fighting Fund prize draw. Picture: Alex Christian London-based features magazine The Fence is fundraising to expand its staff and increase its output of investigations and “stories that matter”. The independently-owned title, which publishes its print magazine four times a year, is also planning to add a newsletter paywall and print advertorials in a bid to diversify revenues. The Fence’s Fighting Fund has a target to raise £25,000 by the end of the year. It had almost reached £15,000 at the time of publication. The money will be used to expand The Fence’s small team and fund more investigative content after editor Charlie Baker noticed what people want to read “has changed” since he last spoke to Press Gazette in 2022. At the time he described The Fence as a print-first, advert-free magazine with “a lot” of “absolutely silly and absolutely small” content that still had “a sort of permanence”. Speaking after the crowdfunder launched, Baker said: “More generally, in 2022 we had a big space to ourselves in the British …

L.A. Times Image magazine’s November editor’s note

L.A. Times Image magazine’s November editor’s note

Published by Sam Flores

This story is part of Image’s November Kinship issue, celebrating L.A.’s generous spirit and the artistic collaborations that happen among family and friends. A few weeks ago, two of my closest friends, who are also a couple, shared that they were leaving L.A. for good. I was having dinner at their house — as I have been on a practically weekly basis — and I couldn’t stop myself from crying on my pasta. For five years, my partner and I have lived across the street from this couple. Our proximity has brought our already existing friendship even closer, to the point that I know which shows they’re watching on their projector and what time they generally shut off their lights to go to sleep (it has also been said that maybe I’ve been a little too observant). Jokes aside, knowing that my friends can bring me Advil when I’ve somehow spilled boiling water on my legs, or that they can come over for spontaneous Kismet rotisserie chicken on a weekday night, has made me feel …

Marlene Schiappa: French minister under fire for appearing on front cover of Playboy magazine

Marlene Schiappa: French minister under fire for appearing on front cover of Playboy magazine

Published by Sam Flores

CNN  —  French government minister Marlene Schiappa has come under fire from members of her own party after appearing on the front cover of Playboy magazine. Schiappa, who has been a government minister since 2017, appeared on the cover of the magazine to accompany a 12-page interview she did on women’s and LGBT rights. Schiappa, who is the current Minister for the Social Economy and French Associations, was photographed for the cover wearing a white dress. Schiappa has been a long-time advocate for women’s rights and was appointed as the country’s first ever Gender Equality Minister in 2017. In this role, she successfully spearheaded a new sexual harassment law which allows for on the spot fines to be issued to men who catcall, harass or follow women on the street. Her appearance has drawn criticism from political colleagues including French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. Borne pulled up Schiappa over the cover, telling her it “wasn’t appropriate, especially during this period,” CNN affiliate BFMTV reported Saturday, citing a source close to the prime minister. France is …