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Despite its significance as a regional hub, the domestic ad market is a small one because of its size. It only represents 0.2% of the world’s ad spend, but levels of spend have bounced back after a slight dip last year.

Ad Spend Share by Medium

Singapore ad spend share

Ad Spend Trends ($bn)

Singapore ad spend trends

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3,831 No. of magazines (consumer)
34% Newstand sales
€3.95bn Ad expenditure
21% Share of adspend
Top 10 Women's Magazines
Title Publisher Frequency Circulation
Singapore Women's Weekly
ACP
Monthly
65,000
Her World
SPH MAgazines
Monthly
63,000
Cleo
ACP
Monthly
62,000
Female
SPH MAgazines
Monthly
60,000
Simply Her
SPH MAgazines
Monthly
60,000
Dolce
Dolce
Monthly
50,000
Elle
Mediacorp
Monthly
40,000
Style
MediaCorp
Monthly
40,000
Shape SPH Magazines Pte Ltd
Monthly
35,000
Amica
RCS Periodici
Monthly
30,000
ZenithOptimedia 2010

Top Men's Magazines
Title Publisher Frequency Circulation
Home Team NS
SPH Magazines
Bi-monthly
160,000
FHM
-
Monthly
50,000
August
CR Media
Monthly
30,000
Men's Folio
Heart Publishing
Bi-monthly
30,000
Men's Health
Blu Inc Media
Monthly
30,000
Nanyou
SPH Magazines
Monthly
25,000
Style Men
MediaCorp
Monthly
25,000
ZenithOptimedia 2010
Top Business Magazines
Title Publisher Frequency Circulation
Business Visitor
-
Monthly
40,000
Marketing
Lighthouse Independent Media Weekly
10,000
ZenithOptimedia 2010
Top General Interest Magazines
Title Publisher Frequency Circulation
Telescope
StarHub
Monthly
150,000
I weekly
MediaCorp
Weekly
125,000
Robb Report
Global Magazines
Monthly
114,000
Silver Kris
SPH Magazines
-
100,000
Young Families
SPH Magazines
Bi-monthly
88,000

 ZenithOptimedia 2010
 

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1.32m No. of TV households
- Daily Reach
177mins Daily viewing
$582m Ad expenditure

33.7% Share of adspend

Top TV Channels
Channel  
Audience share (%) Share of Ad revenue (%)
Channel 8
48.7
-
Channel U
18.4
-
Channel 5
12.8
-
OKTO 6.9
-
Suria 5.4
-
Vasantham 4.0
-
Channel News Asia
3.2
 -
Source: ZenithOptimedia 2011
Top International Channels
Channel  
Viewers (000) Reach (%)
Channel News Asia
- 72.8
Discovery - 38.3
CNN
- 31.4
National Geographic
- 33.1
Discovery Travel and Living
- 24.5
Source: PAX Q3 '09 to Q2 '10

Top Daily Newspapers
Title Readership
Circulation
The Straits Times
1,430,000 366,000
Today (free)
698,000 300,000
My Paper (free)
320,000 250,000
Lianhe Zaobao
555,000 172,000
Shin Min Daily News
421,000 138,000
The New Paper
524,000 104,000
Lianhe Wanbao
433,000 99,000
Berita Harian 233,000 60,000
The Business Times
110,000
35,000
Tamil Murasu
43,000
14,000
ZenithOptimedia 2011



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