The Alliance pour les chiffres de la presse et des médias (ACPM) publishes the distribution and frequentation figures for press brands' titles and sites in 2019 in France. Press circulation represents 3.3 billion printed and digital copies in 2019 compared to 3.5 billion in 2018. More than 3 billion are printed copies. But only the national daily press is seeing an increase in paper sales. 60 million visits are recorded every day on their digital versions (which are their sites and applications on smartphones and tablets).
Of the 10 million copies circulated and the 60 million visits, magazines are the most widely distributed titles with 37% of the number of copies, followed closely by the regional daily press (PQR) with 36%.
The national daily press (PQN) is third with 12%. It is followed by the free information press (PGI) at 7%, then the daily press 7th day (PQ 7th day) at 5%, the regional weekly press (PHR) at 2% and the professional press at 1%.
The magazine press sold 1.2 billion print copies (-5.0%) and 7.7 billion visits were made to its dedicated sites and applications (+10.1%).
For the PQR In the first half of the year, nearly 4 million copies were sold (-4.0%) and 15 million visits to digital media (+21.0%) on average per day.
The PQN the number of visitors to the Group's websites and applications increased across all distribution media: paper (1.3 million copies, up 2.7%), PDF (565,500 copies, up 29.8%), and websites and applications (6.5 billion visits, up 5.4%). CPMA applauds this "excellent performance" . This fine result is due to the current events, but also to a profound change that began more than 10 years ago and which is now paying off for the CPMA.
The ERP was distributed to 252 million printed copies (-8.6% vs. 2018). Of the total number of copies distributed, 61% were print versions in display units and 7.9% were digital versions.
The PQ Day 7 sold an average of 3.2 million copies per issue, with a decrease in the print version (-4.3%) and an increase in PDF sales (+16.2%).
As for the PHR In France, the company has sold more than 54 million copies and received more than 537 million hits on its digital media. In print, sales volume was down (-3.0%) and up in digital (+11.4%).
And the professional media sold 23 million copies (-3.0%). Digital sales were 2.4 million copies (+20.41%).
