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Q: What magazine sells more copies per month (7.8 million) than Sports Illustrated (3.1 million) and People (3.5 million) combined?
Q: What magazine has 10 times the digital circulation (2,900,000) than its closest competitor (Readers’ Digest at 290,000)?
Q: What magazine has grown it’s circulation by over 30% over the past two years and is now the third largest magazine in the U.S.?
A: Game Informer
Game Informer is a monthly magazine that features articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games as well as associated video consoles and is owned by the video game retailer GameStop.
The chart below shows the 15 magazines with the largest circulation and how that circulation has changed over the past two years.
June June June % Change June 2011
Magazine Name 2013 2012 2011 to June 2013
AARP The Magazine 21,931,184 22,528,478 22,395,670 -2.1%
AARP Bulletin 21,701,445 22,283,411 22,236,761 -2.4%
Game Informer Magazine 7,829,179 8,169,524 5,954,884 31.5%
Better Homes and Gardens 7,624,505 7,617,038 7,648,900 -0.3%
Reader’s Digest 5,241,484 5,577,717 5,653,440 -7.3%
Good Housekeeping 4,396,795 4,346,757 4,336,711 1.4%
Family Circle 4,014,881 4,100,977 3,816,958 5.2%
National Geographic 4,001,937 4,232,205 4,445,603 -10.0%
People 3,542,185 3,563,035 3,556,753 -0.4%
Woman’s Day 3,394,754 3,449,692 3,863,710 -12.1%
Time 3,301,056 3,276,822 3,376,226 -2.2%
Ladies’ Home Journal 3,229,809 3,205,302 3,267,239 -1.1%
Taste of Home 3,207,340 3,231,697 3,235,718 -0.9%
Sports Illustrated 3,065,507 3,204,945 3,207,861 -4.4%
Cosmopolitan 3,017,987 3,017,834 3,032,211 -0.5%
- Source: AuditedMedia.com
Includes both print and digital subscriptions as well as single-copy sales
