Digital Magazine Industry Statistics | Data |
Number of people who read a magazine’s digital edition over the past 12 months | 28,750,000 |
Percent of consumers who prefer the tablet version over a printed copy | 26 % |
Annual digital magazine sales revenue | $4,000,000,000 |
Annual advertising spending in digital magazines | $2,800,000,000 |
Top Digital Magazines | Total Digital Replica Circulation |
Game Informer Magazine | 2,974,512 |
Reader’s Digest | 292,285 |
Cosmopolitan | 246,815 |
Taste of Home | 215,658 |
Maxim | 211,429 |
National Geographic | 180,288 |
Working Mother | 163,539 |
Poder Hispanic | 137,717 |
OK! Weekly | 135,709 |
What People Ranked as the Most Important Content in Digital Magazines | Rate (Out of Possible 5) |
Scrollable text | 3.4 |
Clickable links | 3.0 |
Access to back-issue | 2.8 |
Vertical swipe | 2.8 |
Ability to copy and paste | 2.8 |
Article bookmarking | 2.7 |
Video | 2.6 |
Live news content | 2.5 |
An included print | 2.2 |
Interactive clickable ads | 1.6 |
Top Reason People Read Digital Magazines | Percentage |
It saves paper | 52.50% |
All my issues are in one spot | 42.00% |
I like the medium | 41.00% |
It’s cheaper | 27.50% |
It’s free with my print subscription | 26.50% |