Revenue is down at a Bath-based publisher but the company's switch to digital continues to pay off.
Future has revealed a one per cent drop in revenue to £49.4 million for the first half of the year.
However, the company's interim results also revealed that revenue from its digital titles had gone up by 33 per cent to £12.4 million. Digital revenue now represents 25 per cent of the group's total revenues and digital now accounts for 57 per cent of all advertising sales.
Despite a shift in focus by the company to digital Future sold 24 million magazines last year compared to five million digital editions.
Future said it now had 300,000 subscribers to its digital editions a figure up 75 per cent since March 2012.
Visitors to Future's websites have also increased by 46 per cent to 51.4 million a month in the last year and page views have increased by 38 per cent to almost 300 million a month.
Chief executive, Mark Wood, said: "We experienced some difficult trading conditions in the first half, above all in the games market, which has been in a trough ahead of new console releases from Microsoft and Sony. However, the first half figures mask tremendous progress towards a predominantly digital business, reflected in a 33 per cent growth in digital revenues.
"Despite continued challenging conditions, and the impact of the games cycle, we are seeing increased
momentum on commercial revenues, contributions from new initiatives and bottom line improvements from
cost efficiencies. These all point to a strong performance in the second half of the year."
In April Future announced the sale of its UK Rock titles including Classic Rock and Metal Hammer for £10.2 million.
Since the end of October 2011 the publisher has also axed Trucking, XBox World, Nintendo power and PlayStation.
