World's most popular newspaper?

Here are the 10 most popular:

Rank Title Country Circulation (000)

1        Yomiuri Shimbun Japan 14,067

2        The Asahi Shimbun Japan 12,121

 3       Mainichi Shimbun Japan 5,587

4       Nihon Keizai Shimbun Japan 4,635

5       Chunichi Shimbun Japan 4,512

6       Bild Germany 3,867

7       Sankei Shimbun Japan 2,757

8       Canako Xiaoxi (Beijing) China 2,627

 9      People’s Daily China 2,509

10     Tokyo Sports Japan 2,425

http://www.wan-press.org/article2825.html

About the online , please read the following:

Newspapers have no future without online and digital services, media executives heard at a two-day conference in Madrid jointly organised by the World Association of Newspapers, the IFRA publishing association and the International Federation of the Printed Press.

‘We are getting the whole organisation ready for a digital future,’ said Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing at Guardian Newspapers, whose Guardian Unlimited site is by far the most popular British newspaper online site. Within ’six to seven years’, the group plans to dedicate 80 per cent of its time to digital activities, compared to 20 per cent at present, Waldman told the conference, entitled ‘Beyond the Printed Word’.

Meanwhile the internet arm of El Mundo, Spain’s second-best selling daily in print, has the highest readership of all online European papers with 750,000 visitors a day, and is the most read title in the Spanish-speaking world. ‘Digital revenue is serious business … Online business is a growth business, while newspapers are not,’ echoed Helmar Hipp, regional director of Austria’s Voralberger Nachrichten, which draws 15 per cent of its revenue from the internet and related activities. (AFP, journalism.org,November 14, 2005)

http://blog.newspaperindex.com/2005/11/14/no-future-for-newspapers-without-digital-services/ 

Hi,

try the International Audit Bureau of Circulation, for print: http://www.ifabc.org/index.asp you can always go to each country's circulation bureau for more details

 for online - you will need to check the Nielsen/HitWise/Comscore reports for that category. try thier sites - look for press releases

you can also go to: www.allyoucanread.com they rank the 100 global newspapers here: http://www.allyoucanread.com/Top_100_Newspapers/

Shaike

Thank you for the interesting links , but please help me to find the data:

"for print: http://www.ifabc.org/index.asp you can always go to each country's circulation bureau for more details"

Could you demonstrate a country , for example Japan?

In the second link : "rank the 100 global newspapers here: http://www.allyoucanread.com/Top_100_Newspapers/"

there is no data about the daily sales - did you find any?

here is the link to Japan's Audit Bureau of Circulation: http://www.jabc.or.jp/

as for the daily sales - do you mean in terms of copies? or in terms of revenue?

if copies - you can use the circulation data to know

if revenue - you'll have to calculate the copy price (for subscriber and for one time buyer) and multiply with the corresponding circulation data (they ususally report the % of subscribers vs. one time buyers)

 Shaike

Right answers - those are all Japanese papers