This is part of a decline in circulation that has been ongoing since the December 2012 issue (341,259).
Something is clearly going wrong. What are the leaders of PCG doing with the money from PCG members and co-workers? Why is it that nothing they have done have increased the circulation figures?
Here is when The Philadelphia Trumpet's circulation fell below 300,000 since the November 2003 issue.
- November-December 2006 till April 2007. (Four issues.)
- March 2008 till December 2010. (Twenty-eight issues.)
- May-June 2015 till September 2015. (Four issues and ongoing.)
- April 2008 till February 2009. (Nine issues.)
- April 2009 till September 2010. (Fourteen issues.)
Here is the current list of PCG's Philadelphia Trumpet magazine's circulation figures updated with the recent figures.
1998
March 70,000
May 44,800
June 72,900
July 86,400
August 90,000
September 95,000
November 87,500
December 89,000
1999
January 98,250
February 102,750
March 105,300
May 116,500
June 135,000
July 178,000
At present it is not possible for me to know the circulation figures after this issue until the November 2003 issue. (August 1999-September-October 2003).
In the December 1999 issue Gerald Flurry boasts that the magazine had doubled its circulation in the last twelve months. This seems believable and to correlate with the figures presented here.
In the July-August 2000 issue of Royal Vision Gerald Flurry boasted that The Philadelphia Trumpet had a circulation over 300,000. He wrote that PCG's "Trumpet magazine has a circulation of more than 300,000" (p. 12).
We continue from the November 2003 issue.
2003
November 313,400
December 317,000
2004
January 341,305
February 341,735
March 344,530
May 347,750
June 345,290
July 340,740
August 338,665
September 335,000
November 340,340
December 325,835
2005
January 325,595
February 318,844
March-April 315,435
May 306,400
June 315,435
July 315,970
August 317,235
September 319,760
November 314,810
December 325,985
2006
January 323,900
February 322,200
March 326,702
April 345,000
May 325,000
June-July 332,000
August 326,000
September 330,000
October 314,000
November-December 288,000
[Falls below 300,000 issues. Still higher than current issue.]
2007
January 290,100
February 288,000
March 295,000
April 295,000
May 331,000
[Magazine goes above 300,000 issues again after five issues.]
June 351,000
July 417,000
August-September 428,500
October 444,100
November-December 458,700
2008
January 408,995
February 373,500
March 294,000
[Falls below 300,000 issues. Still higher than current issue.]
April 266,301
[Falls below current circulation of 284,400.]
May 283,450
June-July 252,948
August 275,180
September 269,180
October 274,076
November-December 278,480
2009
January 282,480
February 280,844
March 289,844
[Goes higher than current circulation after nine issues but falls below it with the next issue.]
April 255,455
[Again falls below current circulation of 284,400.]
May-June 257,944
July 255,280
August 252,067
September 255,067
October 257,978
November-December 259,767
2010
January 266,767
February 255,767
March 256,767
April 265,285
May-June 269,615
July 258,707
August 269,641
September 284,235
October-November 289,332
[Goes higher than current circulation after fourteen issues.]
December 295,382
2011
January 300,380
February 304,147
March 307,097
April 315,064
May-June 322,410
July 335,444
August 327,731
September 330,232
October 332,530
November-December 326,176
2012
January 330,067
February 333,067
March 333,067
April 334,044
May-June 338,939
July 342,452
August 340,298
September 340,813
October-November 340,813
December 341,259
[For whatever reason circulation declines from this issue onwards.]
2013
January 333,214
February 331,273
March 331,130
April 329,122
May-June 332,997
July 335,797
August 332,849
September-October 330,936
November 331, 830
December 328,019
2014
January 325,014
February 323,585
March 323,583
April 320,572
May-June 319,107
July 322,017
August 319,798
September 317,863
October 317,130
November-December 313,286
2015
January 314,408
February 312,399
March 311,350
April 310,367
May-June 297,255
[Falls below 300,000 issues and keeps falling.]
July 297,242
August 295,801
September 284,400
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