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20 minutos is a free Spanish newspaper published by Grupo 20 Minutos SL, a subsidiary of the Norwegian media group Schibsted . It appears from Monday to Friday and reaches 1.1 million readers. This makes it the fourth most widely read newspaper in Spain. 20 minutos is published in half- Berlin format (23.8 × 32.2 cm) and is the first newspaper under a Creative Commons license.

history

The predecessor newspapers of 20 minutos were the free newspapers Madrid y M @ s (since February 2000) and Barcelona y M @ s (since November 2000) published by the Spanish Multiprensa y Más . In 2001, after giving up 20 Minuten Cologne, Schibsted took a stake in Multiprensa and took it over entirely in mid-2002. The free newspapers in Madrid and Barcelona were renamed in 20 minutes .

From the end of 2002 20 minutos gradually issued further regional editions: Seville , Saragossa , Valencia , Andalucía , Murcia , Granada , Córdoba , Valladolid , Alicante , Málaga , Bilbao , Vigo and A Coruña . This went hand in hand with a strong increase in the number of readers. In 2005 20 minutos was the most widely read newspaper in Spain for the first time with 2.448 million readers and remained in this top position until 2011.

From 2008, the difficult economic situation in Spain, which resulted in a collapse in advertising revenues, began to affect the free newspapers as well. At the beginning of 2009 the first of the three main competitors of 20 minutos , the Metro , was hired. At the end of 2011, and in mid-2012 , ADN was the last remaining competitor, the Qué! , at the end (which, however, continues to operate their news portal). Nevertheless, 20 minutos had to go through a rigorous cost reduction program from 2012, with annual savings of 5 to 6 million EUR and a cost reduction of 23% from 2012 to 2013. The regional editions Murcia, Valladolid, Alicante, Bilbao, Vigo and A Coruña were discontinued and Seville , Granada, Córdoba and Málaga combined in the regional edition Andalucía. As a result, the certified circulation fell to 392,737 (2012: 605,241) copies by 2013 and the number of readers to 1.1 million.

In 2005 Schibsted sold 20% of 20 minutos to Spain's third largest media group Zeta, but bought the stake back in 2009.

Website

In addition to the printed newspaper, 20 minutos also operates the 20minutos.es website . In 2011 it was the third largest news portal in Spain with 13 million unique users / month. In December 2012, 20minutos.es launched separate portals for Mexico and the USA and is now the third largest Spanish-language news portal worldwide with 17 million unique users / month.

Other newspapers with the names 20 minutes / 20 Minuten

Schibsted has been a joint venture with SIPA Ouest-France, the publisher of the Sud-Ouest newspaper , since 2002 , and has also been publishing a free newspaper in France under the name 20 minutes . From the end of 1999 Schibsted also gave free newspapers in Cologne and Zurich under the name 20 Minuten . The Cologne edition was discontinued in mid-2001 - after a fierce defensive battle by the Cologne media - (→  Cologne newspaper war ). After this lost battle for displacement, Schibsted canceled the expansion plans for Germany and Austria. The Zurich edition had Schibsted in 2005 to the Swiss media company Tamedia resign after it had threatened, otherwise on the basis of from the Official Journal Zurich Tagblatt der Stadt emerged Zurich Express , a commuter newspaper under the name Express build. Tamedia then launched a French edition under the name 20 minutes under its own direction in 2006 and an Italian edition in 2011 together with “la Regione Ticino” under the name 20 minuti .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Resumen general año móvil April 2013 a March 2014. ( Memento from July 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Estudio General de Medios (EGM) of the Asociación para la Investigación de Medios de Comunicación (AIMC) (PDF; 1.83 MB ). P. 6.
  2. ↑ Condiciones de copia y distribución. In: website of 20 minutos.
  3. ↑ Marcus Haas: "The gift newspaper": Inventory and studies on a new type of press in Europe. LIT Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-8258-8632-5 , p. 275 f.
  4. ^ Tino Fernández: The newspaper industry in Spain Free newspapers - unsettling, but also revolutionary. In: newspaper technology. WAN-IFRA, October 2002 (PDF; 120.80 kB), p. 20 f.
  5. ↑ 20 minutes, el diario más leído. In: 20 minutes. July 12, 2006.
  6. ↑ a b c 20 minutos, Spain. ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Annual Report 2011 of the Schibsted Media Group.
  7. ↑ Linda Fischer: Metro International stops circulation in all of Spain. In: Madrid newspaper. February 2, 2009.
  8. ↑ a b 20 minutos, Spain. ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Annual Report 2012 of the Schibsted Media Group.
  9. ^ Media Houses International. ( Memento from July 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Annual Report 2013 of the Schibsted Media Group.
  10. ↑ Schibsted cuts costs in Spain. ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Newspaper Innovation. May 20, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newspaperinnovation.com
  11. ^ Search in: OJD / PGD der Información y control de publicaciones (Introl).
  12. ↑ Grupo Zeta acquires 20% of 20 Minutos España. ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Media release of the Schibsted Media Group of April 28, 2005.
  13. ↑ 20 minutos, Spain. ( Memento of July 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Annual Report 2009 of the Schibsted Media Group.
  14. ^ Arsenio Escolar: Cómo y por qué hacemos la portada de '20 minutos'. In: 20 minutes. February 3, 2010.
  15. ↑ 20 Minutos (Spain). ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Annual Report 2010 of the Schibsted Media Group.
  16. ↑ Pascal Beucker , Sebastian Sedlmayr, Frank Überall : knocked into the bin. In: taz Cologne . July 12, 2001 (on Pascal Beucker's website).
  17. ↑ The end before the start - no new commuter newspaper "Express" on Monday. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 22, 2003.