Story #50 Daily Post now Wales' best-selling regional newspaper
According to the article, the Daily Post has overtaken the South Wales Evening Post as the top-selling printed regional daily in Wales, and as a result the Daily Post is now Wales' best-selling regional newspaper, although the print sector remains in long-term decline. Figures for 2016 show the paper, which serves readers across north Wales, sold an average of 22,251 copies. It is a decline on the 23,645 printed copies sold in 2015. The Daily Post's circulation has overtaken the Swansea-based South Wales Evening Post. which had an average circulation in 2016 of 21,031 copies.
This also saw a decline in the number of browsers of its website. Kevin Ward, former South Wales Argus editor, said: "Newspaper sales have been declining for 50 years but that rate of decline has been much faster over the last 10 years since people have turned to online news.
- Wales Online's audience grew 13.1% to reach an average of 292,824 daily unique browsers, according to the latest ABC figures.
- The Daily Post's website grew 5.1% to reach 81,125 daily unique browsers.
- The Wales on Sunday also lost readers, reaching an average circulation of 11,608 last year compared to 14,314 in 2015.
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