Weekly Magazines

lostexpectation

Village 9,447 summer 06
Phoenix 18,150
I don't know if how bad or good that is

what magill never bought that

Dundalk Daily

Magill is definately not the product it was years ago, def not my cup of tea anyway.

Big fan of Phoenix but it has been in decline re circulation for the last 10 years or so it definately needs something of a freshning up.

Village, I dont think it took off like those behind it had hoped. Problem here is that it has been losing serious money and is not attracting the level of advertising revenue that it requires to sustain the product. I love Vincent Browne, a legend in Irish journalism.

lostexpectation

Dundalk Daily wrote:

Magill is definately not the product it was years ago, def not my cup of tea anyway.

Big fan of Phoenix but it has been in decline re circulation for the last 10 years or so it definately needs something of a freshning up.

Village, I dont think it took off like those behind it had hoped. Problem here is that it has been losing serious money and is not attracting the level of advertising revenue that it requires to sustain the product. I love Vincent Browne, a legend in Irish journalism.

yeah hes definite a leg end

flogen

lostexpectation; can you add a comment to those figures?

mike65

The market here for a weekly publication thats beyond the RTE Guide and VIP in scope is almost zero it seems. The Pheonix only does farily well cos many who buy do so for the 'humour' rather than the political insight (such as it is).

Most just buy the weekend papers and thats it.

Mike.

jrey1981

If you work it out per capita, compared to the UK, those figures are actually about right.
The New Statesman's is 25,000 as far as I know, and The Spectator about 75,000.

The Village would be nearer to the NS in terms of politican leanings, and The Speccie to Magill, whose circulation I don't know.

tbh

I always find village quite an absorbing read when I can find it in the shops - no easy task!

irish_bob

i consider myself of the centre politically and i have to say that village magazine would be too left leaning for me
im no fan of vincent browne , thats for sure
as for magill , never bought it but eamon sweeney is the editor and i like what he writes, hes not afraid to knock a few sacred cows , a kind of a young eoghan harris

blue4ever

mike65 wrote:

The market here for a weekly publication thats beyond the RTE Guide and VIP in scope is almost zero it seems. The Pheonix only does farily well cos many who buy do so for the 'humour' rather than the political insight (such as it is).

Most just buy the weekend papers and thats it.

Mike.

I have always been of the opinion that there is a market for a weekly mag, but a market that has not been fill adequately. Mr Browne seems to concur with this opinion – but does it his style. It doesn’t have to be this wing or that – or politically orientated – just a good roundup of the week.


On that – has anyone ever seen ‘The Week’ UK based publication – in a word excellent. I would love to see that here.

r3nu4l

I bought the Village last time I was in Dublin Airport and found it to be a good read. I think that so long as you are aware of the political slant that an author is bringing to an article it can still be educational and you can filter out the opinon from the facts...although you should also be aware that only a certain set of facts will be used

I like the Phoenix, never read Magill but wouldn't go out of my way to subscribe to or buy any of them.

Stargal

Village is very under-rated; the Irish news section is very strong. Not so crazy about some of the arts features in the second half of it, but overall it's a very strong publication. Some of their covers are great too - I really liked the Haughey one last week.