Categories: OLD Media Moves

FT passes 700,000 digital subs, 900,000 total subs

The Financial Times has exceeded 700,000 digital subscribers and 900,000 total subscribers for the first time, reports Domonic Ponsford of The Press Gazette.

Ponsford writes, “The title has seen a surge in digital subscribers since April when it revealed the total stood at 650,000, up 14 per cent year on year. At the time it said Brexit and the US presidential election appeared to have particularly fuelled subscriber growth.

“Press Gazette understands that the FT hit the new figure last week for the first time and the new total is likely to be reflected in audited circulation figures for the fourth quarter of this year.

“The total is arrived at by adding total print circulation with digital subscribers.

“Global print circulation is around 190,000 per day (which includes around 26,000 UK bulks which are not actively purchased).”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.