Well I never! Amazing facts about magazines

2,600 magazines are sold every minute of every day in the UK
People in the UK spend around £2 billion on magazines each year
There are currently over 3,300 consumer magazines to choose from
On average, each magazine is actually read for a total of 50 minutes
80% of all women regularly read a consumer magazine
67% of men regularly read a consumer magazine
Each magazine is picked up 5.4 times before it is finished with
There are over 54,000 individual places to buy magazines in the UK
If you laid side-by-side all of the magazines that were sold in the UK in a year, then they would stretch round the equator six times
In the decade since the dawn of the internet, consumer expenditure on magazines has increased by 48%
It would take 30 minutes to sell the amount of magazine needed to cover a complete football pitch
Consumer magazine sales have increased by 4.3% over the past 5 years and the average UK adult now purchases almost 30 magazines each year
If you stacked all of the magazines that were sold in the UK in just 30 mins, the tower of magazines would be equal to the Taipei Tower in Taiwan, the world’s tallest building
More of the internet generation read consumer magazines than any other age group