The Spectator

Sales of The Spectator surge 16 per cent to (another) all-time high

The UK magazine industry releases figures today and we’re delighted to announce that The Spectator sold a weekly average of 106,905 copies last year, up 16 per cent on 2020 and — yet again — our best year ever. The Spectator has now almost doubled our sales over a decade where sales of consumer magazines fell by two-thirds.

We can also announce:

  • Our actual (print) magazine, which has the longest run of any weekly in the world, hit an all-time sales high averaging 77,564 sales last year. Just under a quarter of our subscribers are digital-only
  • Our recently-launched Spectator TV has broken through 150,000 subscribers
  • Coffee House Shots, our flagship daily podcast, exceeded a million listens in January
  • Our website spectator.co.uk was viewed 75 million times last year
  • Spectator World, our new US-based monthly (not included in these figures) hit 14,000 subscribers
  • Fraser Nelson was last month named editor of the year in the British Society of Magazine Editors awards in its current affairs category

Our ABC certificate, released today, shows a total figure of 112,040 — so that includes those who first sign up on a free trial.

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