On Friday, the ABC reported sales figures for January of 405,113 for The Times and 967,975 for The Sunday Times. Combined with 119,255 digital subscribers, there is now a total paid audience of 524,368 for The Times. The Sunday Times has 113,818 digital subscribers and a total paid audience of 1,081,793.

The number of digital subscribers to The Times and The Sunday Times has continued to grow month-on- month.

The Times and The Sunday Times are available for download on all platforms and devices including Android, Amazon Kindle and iOS5.

In January, an average of 59,882 copies of The Times were downloaded daily on the iPad, a 35% increase since Sept 2011.

The average number of The Sunday Times iPad edition downloaded in January was 63,959. This is an 80% increase since Sept 2011.

Notes to editors:

The Times and The Sunday Times began to charge for their digital journalism in July 2010.

The Sunday Times iPad app was named as one of ten winners of the 2011 XMA Cross Media Awards, which recognise excellence in multi-platform delivery of content.

The Times and The Sunday Times were winners of the AOP Digital Launch of the Year 2011. At the Online Media Awards, thesundaytimes.co.uk was winner of six awards including the Grand Prix Awards for Website of the Year and the best Designed Site.

The Sunday Times iPad app was voted the world’s best Newspaper & Magazine App of the Year by iMonitor and was awarded Newspaper App of the Year at the 2011 Newspaper awards.

The Times iPad and web infographics won the Digital Design Week Awards.