Mail Online’s 2013 resolution: money for video
Look out, world. Mail Online is still investing in building out its U.S. and U.K. teams. The next focus for cash will be video production.
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Three-way tie-up promises to re-invent local news
The industry has been ravaged by cutbacks and an ad downturn. Now three UK local news publishers confirm they are coming together to improve digital news. But can they deliver on the promise?
Daily Mail‘s new Kindle app combines replica and interactive
Should publications go to tablets with cheap print replicas or costly interactive editions? The Daily Mail has both – and now is trying to inject more interactivity in to its page-turner.
Sales growth outpacing audience growth at world’s biggest online newspaper
MailOnline’s celebrity gossip and photo galleries may have drawn millions of readers at breakneck speed, but it is now monetising the audience even faster, earnings show.
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Two years after the tipping point, papers’ web readership is booming
We crunched data from the last 12 years to examine UK newspaper and website readership. Here is what the results say about the future of online news.
Mail Online is about to turn its first profit
Having quickly become the world’s most-read newspaper website, Mail Online now looks like turning profitable earlier than expected.
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For struggling local publishers, weekly is the new daily, iPad the new fishwrap
Many newspaper publishers are now hastening the reform of their local titles challenged by digital consumption migration, the drying up of classified ads and rising print costs, a confluence of strategies suggests.
DMGT snaps up Jobrapido to build digital recruitment business
The market for job classified ads may be gloomy at present, but Mail Online publisher DMGT is buying further in to it, by acquiring the Jobrapido recruitment site for up to €30 million
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Industry Moves: A&N Mobile, Future TechRadar, Johnston Press, Accel
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business…
Never Mind The Numbers: Mail Online And New York Times Are Chalk And Cheese
Mail Online may have overtaken The New York Times’ website for global audience, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) – but, in reality, the tw…
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Mail Online Income Quickening After U.S. Expansion
Mail Online’s annual revenue growth rate has accelerated to a high of 70 percent following its big push in to the U.S., its publisher DMGT r…
The New York Times vs. Mail Online: Who’s Got The Better Business Model?
The championship of the online newspaper world changed hands the other day.
The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) (as measured by comScore (NSDQ:…
Euromoney Subscriptions Growing Through Euro Economy Turmoil
Euro money (the currency) may be going through a rough patch, but Euromoney (the publisher) is in rude health.
Mail Online Introduces Indian Site
The Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) has expanded its international digital presence with the introduction of Daily Mail online India.
Mail Group Selling Teletext In Management Buy-Out
DMGT’s A&N Media is selling a majority stake of Teletext, the once-influential UK TV text service which was unable to profitably move in to…
Chart: Why Classifieds Mean More Than Mail Online To DMGT
Here’s why the most valuable part of A&N Media’s digital empire has little to do with news and its display ads, and everything to do with cl…
Mail Online Readers Say They Will Pay, But They Won't Be Forced To
“We’ve done qualitative research in the UK that did tend to indicate users of Mail Online would pay something for certain aspects of the con…
Mail Online Won't Be Profitable Until 2013, As U.S. Investment Drags
Associated Newspapers’ digital operations, comprising Mail Online, Metro’s website and ThisIsMoney, lost £900,000 ($1407127.19) in the year…
Guardian’s n0tice puts a new twist on hyperlocal
The Guardian is trialling a new community publishing platform that’s based on where you are — a sort of Wordpress meets Craigslist meets Everyblock. But can it make hyperlocal work? The company’s director of digital strategy tells us what it means.
Metro Hails Newsstand For Strong Downloads, High Engagement
UK free commuter newspaper Metro’s new iPad Newsstand edition has proved almost as popular within two weeks of launch as its predecessor had…
A&N Merging Its Property Sites With Zoopla To Beat Rightmove
Mail Online operator A&N Media is pulling a bold and unexpected move that has finally placed it ahead of market-leading Rightmove.
‘Be Your Own Boss’: Northcliffe Turns LocalPeople Sites In To ‘Franchises’
UK regional newspaper publisher Northcliffe Media was only paying its LocalPeople community publishers £4,800. ($7418.03) Now it wants thos…
‘Daily Mail’ Jumps The Gun On Knox Verdict With Embarrassing Results
The internet makes it possible to broadcast breaking news at a pace unlike anything we’ve ever experienced. Unfortunately, that includes the…
Industry Moves: Mail Online, MySpace’s New Marketer, Massive
Some latest executive comings and goings from digital companies that begin with “M”…
Pot Calling Kettle Black? Mail Rumbled Over Unauthorised Photo Use
An ironic footnote to the story from yesterday that involved the Daily Mail shutting down a proxy site for making unauthorized caches of its…
Daily Mail Proxy Site IstyOsty Goes Down After Cease And Desist Order
The Daily Mail is more than happy for people to share links to articles from its site — it’s an important part of it maintaining its positi…
UK Newspaper Sites See A Summer Slump
Beating NYTimes.com may have to wait. Mail Online lost 13 percent of its monthly audience in June, down to 67.1 million unique browsers.
Mail Online Revenue Growing Slower Than Audience
Mail Online and Metro.co.uk are making 51 percent more revenue than last year. That’s the difference parent DMGT disclosed Tuesday morning.
Hacking Digest: Sun Editor Sacked; Miskiw Speaks; Lawyer Victims; Sunday
James Murdoch’s testimony on phone hacking is getting called into question by those who were closest to the situation at the time: that coul…
Aegis Media Takes Mobile Leap With $11 Million Investment In TigerSpike
Aegis Media, the media buying and marketing division of Aegis Group, is beefing up its mobile assets and activity: it is taking an undisclos…
Daily Mail Uses Online Coupons To Seek Print Loyalty
Associated Newspapers says “hundreds of thousands” of people have redeemed discount vouchers from Mail Online by collecting codes from Daily…
The Daily’s Launch Exec Picton Joins Mail Online
Former Sun Online editor Pete Picton, who we revealed in September was called up to help launch News Corp.’s The Daily in New York, has now…
In Brief: Antique Books, Tesco Digital, Culture Fund & More
A round-up of today’s news bits…
— iPad antique books: The British Library has released an iPad app including 1,000+ 19th Century books,…
Daily Mail’s Digital Revenue Up 50 Percent From Last Year
Digital revenue from Mail Online and Metro.co.uk rose to £8 million in the six months to April 3 – up 50 percent from a year earlier.
Euromoney’s Subs And Ads Are Up But Could Fall Back
Business publisher Euromoney says it will plough more money in to technology and digital products this year, after finding its digital busin…
Here’s Why America Is Vital To UK Newspapers
Efforts by titles like Guardian.co.uk and Mail Online to gain U.S. audiences are not just hubristic attempts at conquering, Beatles-style, A…
Chart: The Battle For Global News Supremacy
To the competition between NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) and HuffingtonPost.com, add two British challengers…
A&N Fancies Free Amongst Paid Mobile Line-Up
DMGT’s A&N Media is feeling its way through paid and free strategies in mobile media.
After adding a free, ad-supported option to its subsc…
Mail On iPad Next Week As A&N Seeks Balance In Digital Subs
A&N Media aims to grow digital to a quarter of its revenue by 2016, by adding a range of new subscription options and tilting away from adve…
Subscription And Ad Rates Slowing At Euromoney
“As expected, subscriptions, advertising and sponsorship revenues have all continued to grow at slower rates than those achieved in the firs…
Mail Online Kicking Google OnePass’ Tyres
Associated Newspapers is due to test out Google’s OnePass system for accessing and paying for content, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has confirmed.
Interview: Northcliffe’s New Boss Plans ‘Radical’ Shake-Up
As Steve Auckland settles into his new office on the third floor of Derry Street on Monday to start his first day heading up Northcliffe Med…
Industry Moves: Northcliffe MD; Trinity Mirror, eYeka, RadiumOne, Openreach
— Northcliffe: The regional publisher’s MD Michael Pelosi is retiring, his role taken by Metro MD Steve Auckland, who is succeeded by A&N M…
UK’s Mail Online Tinkering With Mobile Pricepoints
News pricing structures are clearly still being figured out on mobile, just as much as they are on websites.
Mail Online, the UK’s most-vis…
Updated: Online And Job Ads Bounce Nationally, Sink Locally For DMGT
Associated Newspapers’ online revenue for the three months to January 2 was 73 percent higher than in the same period a year earlier, DMGT s…
Print’s Not Dead: DMGT’s Building A New Press Plant
DMGT’s consumer division, which publishes the Daily Mail, joins the likes of Guardian News & Media in investing in a new print plant. Here’s…
‘Radio Times’ Becomes EPG In 3.8 Million Freeview Homes
BBC Worldwide’s Radio Times magazine is taking over the branding of Teletext Extra, a TV interface that’s used on Freeview sets in 3.8 milli…
Free Metro Can’t Stop Making Money
Metro is far and away Britain’s most successful national newspaper. Over the past year, its distribution has increased along with its geogra…
Running The Numbers: Mobile Newspaper Subscriptions
The Guardian’s new subscription iPhone app, which we reported on last week, has arrived in iTunes Store, joining its counterpart Mail Online…
Mail Online Vs NYTimes.com?: Running The Numbers
Having watched the rise of Britain’s Mail Online over the last year, tongues are wagging that, in 2011, it could overtake The New York Times…
The Free Standard Gets Bigger And Bigger
Has the London Evening Standard found a business model by going free? You betcha.
Yesterday’s issue was 88 pages. Today’s is a record-break…
Northcliffe Will Try Online Info As Sticking Plaster Over Local Classifieds
Regional papers’ core classifieds income stream is in ongoing decline, and compounded by the state of national finances – so DMGT says its N…
Mail Online 2010 Income Nears £12 Million, Coming To America
DMGT’s consumer media profits bounced back by 46 percent over the last year – but, as with many companies lately, that’s mainly the benefit…
UK Freesheet Metro Launches New App Business
When Richard Titus was the CEO of newspaper publisher DMGT’s digital arm AND, he had big ambitions for apps: his aim was to launch 150 by Ma…
Mail Online Nearing iPad Edition, Micropayments
Martin Clarke, the Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) executive who runs Mail Online, revealed today that 10% of the website’s UK traffic is generated b…
MailOnline: What Is The Secret Of Its Success?
He probably doesn’t worry about falling house prices or the evils of multiculturalism, but does North Korea’s “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il sati…
Videoplaza Adds Titus To Its Board
Videoplaza, the Stockholm-based online video ad-serving technology company, is adding former Associated Northcliffe Digital CEO Richard Titu…
Earnings Update: DMGT, Future Confident; Game Waits For Christmas
Some companies issued brief interim trading updates to the market Tuesday morning, ahead of imminent full-period disclosures.
Here’s the su…
In Location Sharing, Facebook Trips Up, Metro Seeks Audience
So Facebook launched its Places location sharing in the UK Friday morning. My first experience proved disconcerting enough to perhaps be my…
Daily Mail Places Stealth Job Ad In Its Robots.txt
It’s more commonly used as a way to block search crawlers from certain parts of publishers’ sites.
But the most-visited newspaper website i…
DMGT’s Hyperlocal Publishers Earn £4,800pa
When we last wrote about Northcliffe Media’s “hyperlocal” online initiative LocalPeople in June, we didn’t know what the deal was for the 10…
A&N Media Offloading Obits Site To iAnnounce In Return For Stake
There’s an after-life for Lasting Tribute. The bereavement classifieds site had powered obits for Northcliffe’s ThisIsAnnouncements platform…
Associated, Northcliffe Digital Income Up On Ad Growth, Cost Cuts
Richard Titus’ last act as outgoing CEO of the disbanded Associated Northcliffe Digital…
— At Mail Online and Metro, Associated Media’s…
Another DMGT Rejig: AND Killed Off, CEO Titus Leaving
By Mark Sweney and Jemima Kiss: Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) & General Trust is to dissolve its standalone consumer digital arm, Associated Northc…
Meltwater’s Melting: Now Daily Mail Blocks The Service
The UK’s most popular online newspaper website has joined News Corp.’s The Times, The Sun and News Of The World sites in barring the online…
Mail Group Mulls Global LocalPeople, Doubling Network
Associated Northcliffe Digital in the UK says it’s planning to double the number of local community sites it operates over the next year, an…
Evening Standard Almost In Profit After Going Free
By Peter Preston: It’s 18 months since the mighty Rothermere empire shrugged sadly and sold its cherished Evening Standard to Alexander Lebe…
DMGT’s Regional Arm Poised To Return To Profit As It Plots 150 App Launches
By Mark Sweney: Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) & General Trust has said that it expects its regional newspaper business to return to revenue growth…
Ofcom Fines DMGT £225,000 For Closing Teletext
By Mark Sweney: Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) & General Trust has been fined £225,000 by media regulator Ofcom for closing the Teletext TV servic…
Industry Moves: Haymarket MD, Associated Newspapers, BBC Newsroom
— Haymarket: In the mag publisher’s ongoing exec rejig, the consumer media unit’s sales director David Prasher (pictured) becomes its MD, f…
DMGT Turns To iPhone Developers In App Effort
Since being named Associated Northcliffe Digital’s (AND) CEO 12 months ago, one of Richard Titus’ key strategies, at the DMGT publisher, has…
Mail Online: ‘Why We’re Staying Free’
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…
Mobile Content Bits: Opera On iPhone, AND Ad Sales, Ofcom’s BT Rules
— Opera on iPhone: Fresh from forcing Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to offer browser choices in Europe, Norway’s Opera is copying Spotify by darin…
Nicholas Wheeler Steps Down As MD Of ITN On
Nicholas Wheeler is stepping down from his position as the managing director of ITN On, the multi-platform division of news supplier ITN, re…
More App-Tastic News: Evening Standard And Localpeople Are The Latest
More news apps coming to a phone near you: The Evening Standard and hyperlocal portal LocalPeople, from the Standard’s former owners DMGT, a…
Mixed Picture For DMGT Online Sales, 2010 Looking Up
The recession’s impact on even online classifieds knocked 13 percent off Associated Northcliffe Digital’s October-to-December revenue, compa…
Updated: Daily Mail Snaps Up Two More Property Sites (Domain Names Only)
What housing recession? Looks like Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) publisher DMGT is gearing up for a renewed boom in online property listings…
Ju…
Property Pass-The-Parcel: AND Buying Half Of Search Site Globrix
Free-to-list property site Globrix is selling on the 50 percent of their company that News International didn’t want – to another newspaper…
Euromoney Sees Subscriptions Dipping Throughout The Year
*Time* was, investors’ mag Euromoney was a prime example of a B2B title withstanding the economic storm. But its October-to-December revenue…
Freesheet Created By Merger Of Dublin Rivals Launches
By Mark Sweney: The Metro Herald, the daily Dublin newspaper created through the merger of Herald AM and Metro Ireland, launches today as a…
DMGT Planning 15 iPhone Apps In 2010, But Why Do Newspapers Love iTunes?
One thing newspaper and online B2B publisher DMGT wants for Christmas is iPhone apps, and lots of them. Richard Titus, former BBC mobile con…
Teletext’s Content Publishing Days Are Over, Now It’s All About Commerce
In the end, the resources required to keep publishing its much-loved content pages has proved too much. DMGT’s A+N Media is shutting down al…
AND Cold On Paywall: ‘Readers Have No Willingness To Pay’
Mail Online and DMGT’s local newspaper websites seem unlikely to follow in Rupert Murdoch’s footsteps toward the paywall, at least for now.…
Lonely Planet Digital Exec Joins Hotels.com; AND’s Motors.co.uk Appoints CEO
— Hotels.com: Lonely Planet’s head of emerging business Troy Suda is to leave the business to join Expedia-owned booking site Hotels.com as…
Last Web Freesheet Standing: Metro.co.uk Relaunches
After thelondonpaper and London Lite bit the dust and the London Evening Standard went free, the companion website to the capital’s other…
Print Round-Up: Standard Job Cuts; Northcliffe Cuts; Indie Voucher Scheme
— Evening Standard: The free London paper is cutting 20 production jobs after axing its Midday edition and concentrating resources on its W…
Mail Online Sales Growing, But AND Dragged Down
Mail Online publisher Associated Northcliffe Digital profit dipped by £5 million and sales fell 20 percent to £70 million in the year to O…
Euromoney Earnings Hit By Recession; Puts Faith In Online Subscriptions, Data
It used to seem impervious to the effects of the recession, but now DMGT’s business mag, website and events company Euromoney is suffering i…
Publishing Round-Up: London Lite Closure Date; Lonely Planet Stats; Bild iPhone Blocking
— London Lite: Associated Newspapers’ London Lite will shut this Friday (the 13th), after a period of “consultation” in which there was onl…
DMGT’s London Lite Closing: Capital’s Free Newspaper War Ends
Associated Newspapers’ free evening title London Lite is to close, parent company DMGT confirmed on Tuesday, two months after News Internati…
News Aggregator Calls On Newspapers To End Legal Action
If you receive legal threats from an an entire industry, you could just ask them to stop. At least, that’s what one news aggregator has done…
Industry Moves: iCrossing, Incisive Media, DMGT
— iCrossing: The digital marketing agency is promoting Madeleine Wood to chief client officer, Dean Harvey to chief commercial officer and…
Motors.co.uk Drives Forward With Regional Newspaper Deal
By Chris Tryhorn: The car buying website motors.co.uk has struck deals with three regional newspaper groups to extend its reach to another 4…
Earnings: DMGT Sees Ad Freefall Slowing
Could green shoots of recovery be sprouting for newspaper publishers? In a trading update for the 11 months to August 31, ahead of its full-…
Print Round-Up: Euromoney Profits; More Trinity Regional Cuts; Guardian Price Comparison Site
— Euromoney: It’s experienced the same declines in advertising, sponsorship and event delegate revenue that every other B2B has — but DMGT…
Interview: AND's Bryan On The Hyperlocal Profit Search
News publishers have been piling in to “hyperlocal”, with few signs of success or returns. But Associated Northcliffe Digital strategy direc…
Confirmed: Freebie Metro Planning Up To 30 Lifestyle Layoffs
Update: As predicted, all regional Metro Life staff were handed compulsory redundancy notices at a series of meetings on Thursday afternoon,…
Teletext Rebuffs Overture For Holidays Site
Tis the season for unsolicited buy-out offers. After Capital Ideas’ Observer fishing trip, now Bradford-based travel marketing firm IceLolly…
News Int.: BBC Video Share Will Make News Sites Samey
Four online papers may have started embedding BBC News video, but Times Online and Sun Online parent News International rejected the offer.…
PA, ITN Oppose BBC’s Video Sharing; It ‘Pulls The Rug From Under Us’
Told you ITN and PA would be upset about the BBC sharing online video with newspapers. They have now each published statements citing their…
BBC Newspaper Video Share Gives Auntie Moral High Ground, For Now
The BBC has been trying to share its video with newspapers for the last two years – most recently, in its submission of Ofcom’s public servi…
Earnings: AND Fighting Classified Collapse
DMGT’s April-to-June UK digital sales from its consumer news business fell six percent from last year. Within that, it’s ying and yang – onl…
Earnings: Euromoney Subs Slowing, Recovery In 2010; DMGT Sells PPR
Finally, DMGT’s Euromoney investors mag, which had seemed uber-resilient to the economic downturn on which it reports – is succumbing to the…
Johnston Outsourcing Job Ads Boards To DMGT
DMGT is winning more and more business by helping its competitors. After striking deals to sell Hellomagazine.com and unsold Independent.co.…
Teletext Will Shut TV Services In January, Concentrate On Web
Associated Newspapers is bringing forward the shutdown of analogue Teletext services from 2012 to January next year, and will even shut seve…
Independent.co.uk Outsourcing Some Ad Sales To DMGT
Well, if you’re not making huge amounts from your own web ads, why not sell other people’s, too?
Mail Online publisher DMGT is strengthenin…
Broadband Content Bits: ITN/Mail, Radiohead Manager, Merlin On Spotify, Sofia’s Diary
— ITN/Mail: Yet another online video contract for ITN’s prolific On multimedia division – it’s supplying showbiz, lifestyle, general and bu…
Local Papers Can Make Content Copying Threats, Too, Y’Know?
We’ve become accustomed to national papers moaning about Google excerpting their stories, and the newswires trying watermarking and new lice…
Hello Magazine Hires Associated Northcliffe Digital For Online Sales
Hellomagazine.com, the site of glossy, Spanish-owned celebrity weekly Hello has hired Associated Northcliffe Digital to sell its ad inventor…
Northcliffe’s Hyperlocal Play: A Local Network For Local People
Northcliffe Media has launched Local People, an ad-funded local community publishing platform that mixes area-specific business directories…
New Mail Online Boss Aims To Improve Local Ad Proposition
Richard Titus, the Californian co-founder of Schematic who recently ran mobile and interactive music at the BBC, has made some of his first…
News Bytes: Club Sites Beat Papers’ Sites; Pirate Bay VPN; Amuso Games
— Merseyside search stats: A Hitwise study of traffic and search terms in the Liverpool area in March found that of the top 1,000 search te…
Affiliate Ads: Publishers Eye Profit, But Are Readers Being Misled?
What do each of these news web pages have in common? Hover your mouse and you’ll see that many of the editorial hyperlinks, even some of the…
DMGT Reckons Mail Online Could Charge For Some Content
Watching its consumer publishing revenue evaporate, DMGT is the latest publisher forced to consider a paid content model, in this case for i…
Earnings: Mail Online Revenue Up 15 Percent As DMGT Slides
The detail is a mixed bag for Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) & General Trust as it swung to a £239 million pre-tax loss, for the half-year ending i…
Earnings: Euromoney Banks On Subs, But Turns Loss On Currency Woe
As advertising-funded publications collapse around it, income for DMGT-owned B2B publisher Euromoney’s subscription print and online titles…
Print Round-Up: thelondonpaper Losses; Guardian Cuts; Northcliffe Hyperlocal; Standard.co.uk
— thelondonpaper: News International’s free evening title thelondonpaper cut its losses during its second year of publishing from £12.96 m…
UK Media Millionaires Lost £3 Billion In Recession
It can hardly ever be a bad time to be a millionaire, but the UK’s big league media owners have collectively seen their fortunes drop by £3…
Print Round-Up: Smiths News Profits Fall; DMGT’s Debt Downgrade; Northcliffe Papers Drop Editions
— DMGT Downgraded: Credit rating agency Standard and Poors downgraded Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) and General Trust’s long-term and short-term r…
DMGT Taps BBC’s Titus As Online CEO, Kangaroo’s Kortekaas Is Replacement
Richard Titus, the BBC’s future media and technology (FM&T) controller for audio, music and mobile, is leaving the corporation after two yea…
Print Bits: Metro.co.uk Bonuses, Nottingham Local, Johnston, Commons Inquiry, Feb ABCe
— Metro.co.uk: The freesheet’s website says it gives bonuses to senior editorial team members who meet unique-users and page-views growth t…
DMGT Doubling Job Cuts To Over 1,000, Keeping Schtum On Web Sales
It’s going to get worse before it gets better. Income from DMGT’s news business fell 12 percent between October and February. But, for the c…
Print Round-Up: Sport Media Group; Mail Online; Haymarket; Bauer; Newsquest; Tindle
— Sport Media Group: First it breached one of its banking covenants, then it put itself up for sale, and now Sport Media Group is looking t…
Print Roundup: Emap Digital Director; Euromoney Pay; Archant Restructure
— Emap Inform: Conor Dignam, digital director of B2B publisher Emap Inform, has become editor of the company’s Screen International film in…
Print Roundup: Job Cuts At Archant, Northcliffe Media
— Archant: Any neighbouring regional newspapers sharing a common owner that haven’t merged newsrooms must surely be on the way to doing so.…
Print Round-Up: Trinity Mirror; Metro; Economist Group; Archant; Dagenham Paper; Sport Media Group
— Trinity Mirror: More tough-talking from Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CEO Sly Bailey: in a very rare TV interview, she told Jeff Randall on S…
Newsquest Asks Staff For Unpaid Leave; Northcliffe Imposes Pay Cut
The crisis for the UK’s regional newspapers is in its deep winter, and spring feels like a long way off right now. Like its US parent compan…
Looking For A Love/Hate Relationship? Try The Daily Mail's New Dating Site!
By Jemima Kiss: Single? Lonely? Bitter? Having trouble finding a life partner who hates immigrants, bleeding heart liberals, the BBC, Gordon…
Newspaper Sites' Traffic Up Again, Now Show Us The Money
The monthly ABCe figures don’t give much away about the absolute worth or success of newspaper websites — they only show relative growth…
Broadband Content Bits: Johnston Press-Brightcove; German IPTV; Sky.com; Ebay; Metacafe; Mail Online
— Johnston Press: The latest newspaper group to improve its video content is Johnston Press which is rolling out ad-supported video across…
Daily Mail Keen On Kindle, In Both US And UK
Does the Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) know something we don’t? Mail Online MD James Bromley tells NMA he’s talking with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to lau…
Print Round-Up: Centaur Media; Mecom; Archant Life; Northcliffe Media
— Centaur Media: One month after shutting its Public Private Finance B2B title, Centaur Media is closing Precision Marketing, putting three…
Teletext Outsourcing More Editorial, Still Limping Toward Its ‘Digital Future’
Teletext is in the mixer again. Having scored consecutive annual losses of £4 million and £3 million, now the once-mighty TV info service…
Earnings: Now Even Online Sales Falling At Daily Mail Publisher; More Cuts
Have the wheels finally come off newspapers’ big online dream? In the last three months of 2008, DMGT says online sales in its Mail Online…
Industry Moves: Drayton To Lead InSkin; Future Publishing; Leicester Mercury
Former Telegraph new media director Hugo Drayton, who quit as Phorm UK CEO in December in a fall-out over strategy, is now taking over as CE…
News Players Seeking Sell-Offs, Investment To Beat Downturn: Reports
If you’re looking to buy a newspaper or invest in a TV newsgatherer, you won’t find a better time to do it than now. With revenue declining…
New Era For Lebedev’s Evening Standard, But What About Online?
The loss-making Evening Standard is looking forward to a £25 million, three-year investment under new owner, former KGB colonel Alexander L…
Industry Moves: Standard Editor, WAYN Layoff, Times Dev Ed
— Evening Standard: Changing of the guard at the Evening Standard: editor Veronica Wadley will step down as editor after seven years in th…
Northcliffe Media Restructuring Continues: Jobs Cut, Website Scrapped In Bristol
As the UK officially falls into recession, it’s not a question of how many jobs will go in the regional newspaper industry, it’s more a case…
Industry Moves: Spotify-Yahoo; Publicis Groupe; Associated Newspapers
— Spotify: In-beta Swedish music streaming service Spotify has appointed former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) director of business development Gustav…
London Evening Standard Sold To Former KGB Spy For ‘Nominal Fee’
As the Daily Mail’s own Richard Littlejohn might put it, you couldn’t make it up. In a statement to the City today, DMGT confirms it has ag…
DMGT’s Bubble Grows, Tough 2009 Expected In Ad Markets
Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) & General Trust’s annual report has a predictably gloomy 2009 outlook – but one little-known advertising initiative i…
Reports: Ex-KGB Tycoon Buying Standard; Indie Could Be Next
The most extraordinary deal in UK newspapers for years is very much alive: Russian billionaire and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev is set…
Industry Moves: Mail On Sunday; Telegraph Media Group; Reed Midem; Five/Channel 4
— Mail on Sunday: Associated Newspapers has hired former Bauer Media executive Marcus Rich as MD of the Mail on Sunday and deputy MD of Mai…
Twitter Shuts Down Daily Mail Parody Under DMGT Legal Pressure
By Jemima Kiss: Further proof, if we needed it, that the Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) has no sense of humour. Some wag created the inevitable spoo…
Print Roundup: Guardian.co.uk Targets Europe; Newsquest Colchester Cuts; Evening Standard Bid
— Guardian.co.uk: Guardian.co.uk has appointed foreign advertising specialist AdGent 007 to sell advertising on the site for European reade…
Online Or Bust: Why 2009 May Be The Nail In Newspapers’ Coffins
Optimistic newspaper proprietors like Sly Bailey and Tim Bowdler blame the business’ current malaise (we’ve covered over 1,000 newspaper job…
DMGT Adds Serbian Job Site To Growing Eastern Europe Portfolio
While it cuts jobs and restructures in both its national and regional newspapers, Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) & General Trust is still busy makin…
Print Round-Up: Indie-DMGT Move-In; Johnston Job Cuts; ThisIsLondon Fashion
— Indie-DMGT: The Independent might have to wait just a little longer to get its hands on the keys to DMGT’s London HQ, where the paper wil…
Analyst Forecasts 10,000 Regional Paper Jobs Will Go, Third Of Titles Will Disappear
Just in case anyone is in any doubt of the magnitude of the crisis facing regional newspapers, Clare Enders has really spelled it out. Speak…
Print Round-Up: News International; Northcliffe; City AM; CN Group, Newsquest
— News International: Six months after effectively shutting down its magazines division, News International has sold the remnants, essentia…
JP Morgan Calls For M&A Rule Change To Save Local Press; Forecasts Ad Revenue Drop
US bank JP Morgan is calling for City rules on company ownership to allow for more consolidation of the UK newspaper market. Like most broke…
DMGT Buys Floorplan Service Metropix To Put Alongside Property Search
Metropix, a 3D floor planning service, is being acquired by one of Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) & General Trust’s B2B divisions, Landmark Informat…
Indie Moves In With DMGT, Will Reportedly Merge IT Efforts
So DMGT is not making a bid for Independent News & Media (INM) as some reports suggested, but The Independent, that most liberal of papers,…
DMGT Call: Morgan Details 300 Job Cuts, Selective Hiring Freeze; ‘Yet To Monetise Mail Online’
Putting his stamp on the company almost immediately, new DMGT CEO Martin Morgan told analysts he would wring “significant revenue, cost and…
Earnings: DMGT Eyes £100 Million Savings, Digital Income Still Proportionally Small
With the dead-tree ad decline in full swing, Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) publisher DMGT took pains to stress 62 percent of its profit in the year…
Layoffs Today: Haymarket 50; Emap Inform 40; MediaWales 7; Evening Standard 3
If you gave the B2B mag sector a health check today, it would have very weak pulse. In the last two days two of the sector’s big players ha…
Earnings: Euromoney Profits In The Gloom; Record Results Despite Gathering Storm
What downturn? Financial publisher Euromoney profited in the economic turmoil, reporting record, 21 percent better pre-tax profit of £67.3…
Burn After Reading: More Newspaper Job Cuts Coming From DMGT?
Another day, another wave of newspaper staff expecting redundancy. Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) operator DMGT is about to cut 300 in London, Guard…
Mail’s Dacre: Time For Websites To Make a Profit, Local News In ‘Downward Spiral’
Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) editor Paul Dacre seems under no illusions about the task facing his newspaper business as it transitions to digital.…
Daily Mail Hits New York Jan. 1; On-Demand Editions For Big Apple
If it can make it there, it can make it anywhere… New Yorkers will soon be able to get a daily slice of Middle England – Daily Mail (LSE:…
Independent In The Maelstrom: Selling Aussie Stake, DMGT Deal Looks Unlikely
A typically speculative Sunday newspaper story, this time from The Observer, reckons Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) owner DMGT is considering buying…
DMGT, News Int Merge Sales Teams, Bromley To Lead Mail Online
Newspapers’ eventual decision to “integrate” teams comes along at the same time as the economic crunch, allowing publishers to make redundan…
DMGT Buys Job Ads Platform Broadbean, Gives Mail Digital To Zitter
DMGT’s Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) has bought Broadbean, a Canary Wharf-based web job ads outfit that offers ad posting to multiple…
Industry Moves: Morgan Steps Up To DMGT Helm
A planned coronation – Martin Morgan, CEO of DMGT’s B2B unit, today steps up to lead the whole of the Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) publisher, taki…
Evening Standard Gets Yet Another Rethink; ThisIsLondon Sidelined
Back in the mists of time, when newspaper executives thought it best to launch online by creating new brands (think Electronic Telegraph,…
Earnings: Online Ads Slowing At DMGT, Too; Nice While It Lasted
Well, it was nice while it lasted – the phenomenal online advertising growth of the last couple of years, that is. In the same week PwC and…
DMGT Merging National And Regional At Top, Beatty New CEO
Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) & General Trust is bringing together its national Associated Newspapers and regional Northcliffe Media divisions unde…
UK Round-Up: Metro.co.uk Store, Times Premium Content, ITV Relegation?
— Metro store: National freesheet Metro is to launch an online shopping portal this month as part of a deal with e-tailer Affiliate Window,…
Newspaper Bits: Daily Mail SMS, Trinity’s Welsh Site
— Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) SMS: The Daily Mail is giving new users of its MailTXT service 50 SMS messages that can be sent to any mobile netw…
Industry Moves: Mail’s Miron Leaving For Global Radio
Mail On Sunday and Mail Online managing director Stephen Miron is leaving to join Global Radio as CEO of radio. Miron spearheaded the releas…
Teletext Holidays Moving Too Quickly In Mobile?
Teletext Holidays, probably the main reason anyone still uses the ageing TV text brand, is going full-steam into developing its mobile offe…
Northcliffe Joins BBC Local Video Opposition
Here we go again. DMGT’s Northcliffe regional news publisher has finally joined Trinity Mirror, Johnston Press, GMG Regional Media, The News…
Newspaper Round-Up: Metro Does E-Edition, Telegraph.co.uk Mobile
— E-Metro: Freesheet Metro is the latest newspaper to roll out a “digital edition”. E-Metro, produced by digital publisher Yudu, tries to r…
Earnings: DMGT Ad Sales Rocked In Worsening Economy
All in all, not a terrible result, considering. Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) and General Trust group revenue in the three months to June 30 was ac…
Mail Seeks New Readers With NYC Edition In US Ad Grab
Associated Newspapers plans to publish a New York edition of its quintessentially English Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) and Mail On Sunday tabloids…
Associated Northcliffe Digital Restructures, Ditches MD Hart
Associated Northcliffe Digital’s MD Andy Hart has left DMGT’s online unit abruptly after six years, ahead of another upcoming restructure. A…
Industry Moves: DMGT Lures B2B CEO Kavan From Thomson Reuters
Daily Mail General Trust (LSE: DMGT) has lured Thomson Reuters’ (NASDAQ: TRIN) investment and advisory president Suresh Kavan to become the…
Print Bits: Mail Tops ABCe, Telegraph Widgets
— Telegraph.co.uk: The Telegraph website is trying to take its content off-site by launching a suite of “widgets”. Telegraph.co.uk/widgets…
Minogue’s Ex Sues UK Newspapers In France: Web Took Breach Over Borders
Kylie Minogue’s ex just keeps on setting legal precedents. A French court has ordered two UK newspapers to pay fines for breaking privacy la…
Earnings: Motors.co.uk Knocks AND Profit, Mail Online Made £4 Million In H1
Setting up its new Motors.co.uk classifieds portal knocked a whopping £3.6 million off Associated Northcliffe Digital’s operating profit in…
Weekend Deja Vu: Virtual Newsreaders Making A Comeback? Probably Not
Oh dear. Remember Ananova, Press Association’s virtual newsreader that was killed off after the site’s acquisition by Orange? Northcliffe re…
Online & TV Ad Firm Spot Runner Gets $51M Round From Daily Mail,Televisa, Others; More M&A Coming
Spot Runner, which helps marketers buy TV ad spots on local cable and broadcast using its online service, has raised a big $51 million fourt…
Print Bits: Mail’s Busy Redesign; Times’ Losses
— Mail: Mail Online is beta testing a re-design for its Daily and Sunday print titles. The new site’s chunky homepage is busier than even t…
Daily Mail Launches Free Mobile Text Service
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Earnings: Northcliffe Digital Rev Up 90 Percent At End Of 2007
DMGT’s regional news division saw a 90 percent increase in digital revenue during the final quarter of 2007. The Northcliffe unit, which run…
Daily Mail Closing SimplySwitch Comparison Site
Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) publisher DMGT is closing down its SimplySwitch price comparison site just 14 months after it acquired it for up to
Metro Paper Taps Reader Videos, Music For Revenue
Associated Newspapers’ Metro freesheet is trialling a user video sharing site from which contributors can earn an advertising revenue share.…
Print Bits: Daily Sport Hiatus, Dublin Free Content, Latest ABCe
– Daily Sport: The tabloid newspaper’s new owner has “mothballed” the title’s website and is planning a redesign with less focus on naked fl…
Earnings: DMGT Digital Profit Drops £2 Million On Investment, Regional Online Revs Up 77 Percent
Operating profit at Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) publisher DMGT’s Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) division fell by £2 million to £11 millio…
Associated Newspapers Selling Off Its Stake In Hotels4U
Here’s an unusual thing – a newspaper selling a listings website. Or part of one, at least. DMGT’s Associated Newspapers, which itself has s…
In Print: Sun Claims 22.2 Million Readers; Northcliffe Relaunches Begin Next Week
– The Sun: The Sun is putting a bunch of stats together to claim that 22.2 million people read the title across its print, online and mobile…
DMGT: ‘Digital Has A Key Role To Play’ In Local Publishing Operation
During this week’s investor briefing by Northcliffe Media, the Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) and General Trust (DMGT) division, Michael Pelosi, th…
Associated Online Restructure Separates News And Commercial Operations
Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) has announced a major restructuring of its digital operations that puts some of its biggest news websit…
Daily Mail Does An About-Turn; Decides To Advertise To Overseas Readers
Finally, after years of ignoring the revenue potential in its huge overseas audience, Mail Online has decided the best thing would be to mon…
Evening Standard Gets A New Site – Back To Serious News
When will Associated settle on a strategy for the Evening Standard website? Originally launched as a full-fledged news site under the ThisIs…
Evening Standard Starts Cashless Payment With iTunes Tracks Incentive
London’s Evening Standard newspaper is launching a new swipecard designed to let readers buy the paper without cash. Customers will add cred…
Associated To Invest In National, Regional Site Revamps
DailyMail.co.uk operator Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) is investing in a redesign for its fleet of national and regional websites. Th…
DailyMail.co.uk Reckons No Money In Impressive Overseas Reader Growth
Suddenly, DailyMail.co.uk isn’t getting too excited about its impressive overseas showing in its debut monthly ABCe returns. Amongst July un…
