THE TOP 50 Masthead’s ranking of the Top 50 magazines based on revenue from ad sales and circulation By Jeff Hayward Mastheadonline.com Special Report, August, 2012 I t was all the usual suspects at the top of last year’s money-makers, with Chatelaine hold- ing its crown as queen of Canadian con- sumer magazines. Not only did Chatelaine hold its place at the top of the list, so did the rest of the top six from 2010 — including Cana- dian Living in second spot, Maclean’s in third, Reader’s Digest in fourth, Canadian House & Home in fifth, and Hello! Canada in sixth. How- ever, not one of those titles actually made a rev- enue gain from 2010, with Reader’s Digest losing the most ground. Hot on the heels of the top six was Flare, which actually jumped more than 19% in total revenue last year. 2011 was another good year overall for fashion-oriented magazines, as Elle Canada made a 13% leap and Fashion boasted a 7% gain. There are some new faces in the top 50 list: Largest decrease in overall revenue, -63.6% Top title for subscription revenue Still made #42 on list, but now defunct Retains its throne as No. 1 Largest increase in overall revenue, 19.5%
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THE TOP 50Masthead’s ranking of the Top 50 magazines
based on revenue from ad sales and circulationBy Jeff Hayward
Mastheadonline.com Special Report, August, 2012
It was all the usual suspects at the top of lastyear’s money-makers, with Chatelaine hold-ing its crown as queen of Canadian con-sumer magazines. Not only did Chatelainehold its place at the top of the list, so did the
rest of the top six from 2010 — including Cana-
dian Living in second spot, Maclean’s in third,Reader’s Digest in fourth, Canadian House &Home in fifth, and Hello! Canada in sixth. How-ever, not one of those titles actually made a rev-enue gain from 2010, with Reader’s Digest losingthe most ground. Hot on the heels of the top six
was Flare, which actually jumped more than 19%in total revenue last year. 2011 was another goodyear overall for fashion-oriented magazines, asElle Canada made a 13% leap and Fashionboasted a 7% gain. There are some new faces in the top 50 list:
Outdoor Canada creaked in at #50, CanadianFamily edged up from #51 in 2010 to #49 in 2011,and Plaisirs de vivre made a top 50 appearance in 46th spot. Dropping out of the top 50 list was Cineplex
magazine (#51 in 2011, #46 in 2010). Harrow-smith Country Life, the now-defunct publication(it suddenly disappeared from the face of theearth last year leaving subscribers in the lurch),had held the 50th position in 2010. Here’s some stuff you should know about the
2011 list:• We couldn’t establish 2011 newsstand revenuefor Glow and Pure, the English and French mag-azines for Shoppers Drug Mart, however Glowstill had a strong showing at #23 on the list. Thepublications have since been taken over by St.Joseph Media from Rogers. • For years we’ve tried to stickhandle past the bu-reaucracy to get TC Media’s Hockey News prop-erly listed on our ranking; this year was nodifferent. Its ad revenue is not monitored byLNA and we’ve been unable to obtain revenueinformation from the publisher. Even without
that info, it still made #45 on the list, up from#49 in 2010. • We couldn’t get ad revenue numbers for OurCanada in time for this report, but the maga-zine still managed to hold a top 50 ranking at#48 (its business model is focused on circula-tion). If we assume its ad revenue was aroundthe same as 2010, which was approximately$278,000, that would place it in 47th spot. • We also didn’t receive LNA data for CanadianHome Workshop (we didn’t have that info for2010 either), but it still ended up close to thesame place as last year (#58 instead of #56). • The legendary Homemakers magazine thatlaunched in 1966 and was last owned by TCMedia is no more, since replaced by TC’s multi-platform offering Fresh Juice. We couldn’t obtain2011 circulation revenue for Homemakers, butit still ended its life at #42 on our list. • Sharpmagazine’s newsstand/sub revenue data isfrom the publisher. We didn’t include revenuefrom the Sharp Book for Men, published twice ayear; the publisher said single-copy sales fromthat was $372,900. M
August 2012 MASTHEAD SPECIAL REPORT 2
THE TOP 50
TOP FIVE BY NEWSSTAND REVENUE
Hello! Canada $7.5 million7 Jours $7.1 millionMaclean’s $5.1 millionCanadian House & Home $2.8 millionCanadian Living $2.8 million
TOP FIVE BY PAID SUBSCRIPTIONS
Maclean’s $9.9 millionReader’s Digest $9.0 millionCanadian Living $5.2 millionHello! Canada $4.1 millionChatelaine $3.7 million
TOP FIVE OVERALL GAINERS Flare 19.5%Elle Quebec 14.6%Elle Canada 13.2%LouLou (Fr) 12.0%Profit 11.6%
TOP FIVE OVERALL DECLINERSNot including titles with missing revenue info
Movie Entertainment -63.6%StarWeek -57.2%More -33.4%Cineplex -31.6%Vita -31.3%
Jumps into top 50 from #54 in 2010
Makes an appearance in the almost-made-its
Dropped from #46 in 2010 to #51 in 2011
Jumped from #52 in 2010 to #46 in 2011
How we compile the Top 50:Except where noted, ROP and insert ad revenue was supplied by Nielsen Leading National Advertisers forcalendar year 2011. We apply a 0.7 multiple to ROP revenue figures to account for discounting, and a 0.5multiple to insert revenue also to account for discounting. Subscription and single-copy revenues arecalculated using base data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations or CCAB div. of BPA Worldwide, typ-ically using the December 2011 circulation results or closest available to that date. We apply a 0.6 multi-ple to subscription revenues because publishers often discount the price through different offers, andalso to account for averaging over two-year subscription terms. (Some publishers do not discount, specif-ically Canadian Geographic and Cottage Life, and we have also not applied the discount to discount pricedZoomer or Enfants Québec.) For single-copy, we apply a 0.5 multiple to account for commissions takenby retailers, distributors and wholesalers. Revenue from special-interest publications, websites, events,government grants and other ancillary products is not included. This ranking covers consumer magazinesand business titles publicly available by subscription or on newsstands. Some trade and professional ti-tles may have revenues that would include them among Canada’s largest titles (e.g. CA Magazine), but theyare not included here. We encourage feedback from readers on our methodology.