Consistently behind its IPC rival in circulation terms, Zoo sold 228,024 copies a week in the first half of this year, down more than 12% on the same period last year.
More thinly-resourced than its rivals, its circulation fell more rapidly than any other newspaper in the year to May 2009: the Independent was down 15%, its sister Sunday paper fell 16.6%.
Consider some of the rival names in circulation: "art" music, "serious" music, "great" music, "good" music.
Hello! weathered the sales storm somewhat better than arch rival OK!, with circulation down 5.4% period on period and 14.6% year on year to 352,985.
The Condé Nast magazine has issued an extraordinary release, ostensibly to announce that has a new issue out with Alexa Chung on the cover, but really to trash its National Magazine Company rival's forthcoming circulation increase.
There was the last great newspaper war in a major metropolitan area, each rival boasting a circulation that ranked it among the ten most significant dailies: the Free Press coming in the morning, more liberal leaning; the News, arriving in the evening, more conservative in orientation.
While Motion Picture initially had the edge over its rival, and the greater circulation in the early days, Photoplay reigned supreme in the 1920s and 1930s, with a canny mix of studio tie-ins and an "independent" editorial voice.
The news column by a Mr David Carr today is yet more evidence that The New York Times is uncomfortable about the rise of an increasingly successful rival while its own circulation and credibility are in retreat.
ABC has censured Quinn for issuing his "dances with the fishes" press release that criticised rival Harper's (legal) circulation-boosting tactics.
This show tracks the history of the socialist newspaper, whose circulation once rivalled that of the New York Times, in photographs, documents, and other ephemera.
