DMGT execs have been wooing shareholders at an investors day on Monday. We’re not there, but DMGT has published all its slides online – they show a publisher determined to eschew Times Online’s paid route by aggressively courting advertisers and eyeballs to remain largely free. Here are the key bullet points…
Bullishness:-
- Half of Mail Online traffic is direct hits.
- “Digital-only display ad revenues for MailOnline are currently up 131% year on year for financial ytd.”
- Mail Online publisher Martin Clarke says he’s “gunning for the portals” and “attacking portals like MSN and Yahoo”.
- Why the site is celeb-heavy: “Choice of content is heavily influenced by real-time minute-to-minute monitoring of reader activity
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