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"Satirical ads sell the Times (with Zille, Zuma and Malema)" - MarkLives

And four other great media and marketing reads on the website this week including

Satirical ads sell the Times (with Helen Zille, Jacob Zuma and Julius Malema)

Imagine getting people like Helen Zille, Jacob Zuma and Julius Malema to read news articles about themselves. Well, of course, that's not going to happen, but with the help of impersonators, you can create the desired effect.

MarkLives Big Newspaper List

The ABC has released circulation statistics for the period April 2013 to June 2013. Here are a couple of numbers that stood out in terms of newspaper circulations.

Latest newspaper circulation figures. Yowzer!

There's blood on the floor in the most recent set of print sales figures - for the second quarter (Q2) of this year that were released this week by the Audit Bureau of Circulations of SA (ABC) - but there are also titles fighting for their lives, street by street, and even winning back a tiny bit of territory.

The biggest circulating consumer magazines in SA

The ABC has released circulation statistics for the period April 2013 to June 2013. Here are a couple of consumer magazine ABC numbers that popped out for us. We also updated our list of the biggest circulating consumer magazines in SA!

Newspapers continue circulation decline, consumer magazines fall by 13%

Extracts from the latest 2nd Quarter ABC presentation given by Gordon Patterson. Total Newspapers decreased by 33,000 copies compared to the previous quarter.

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