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Posted on Sep 17, 2013

How Long Can UK Newspapers Survive In Print?

You've probably heard people talk about the "death of print", but what's really going on? Britons love newspapers and buy them in their millions but we're becoming a more digital society - so if you like picking up a newspaper in the morning, you may want to make the most of it while you can.

by psmith

Community Contributor

And that's just sales: actual readership is far higher. Some 27.5 million people in the UK read either a morning national or regional newspaper every day, not far off half the adult population.

This doesn't include freebies like the Metro and London Evening Standard, but it still means we buy 1.3 million fewer newspapers in 2013 than we did last year. Fast forward five years and how many more will we have lost?

Subscription TV is booming, Netflix has just passed 1.5 million subscribers in the UK, video games (often with online payments), apps and mobile payments are off the scale.

It's been a slow decline for many years. Despite the huge online traffic figures newspaper websites get - MailOnline is the biggest newspaper site in the world according to comScore, with more than 100 million readers a month - advertising online just doesn't make as much money as advertising in print.

The phone hacking scandal (and Rupert Murdoch's quest to end the controversy to keep on building his UK media empire) claimed the country's biggest paper in 2012. While some NOTW readers went to other papers, many just stopped buying them altogether.