paidContent:UK - Covering UK\'s Digital Media Economy

DMGT

 
UK Round-Up: Metro.co.uk Store, Times Premium Content, ITV Relegation? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 05 Sep 2008 01:26 AM PST

-- Metro store: National freesheet Metro is to launch an online shopping portal this month as part of a deal with e-tailer Affiliate Window, the same outfit that runs Sun…

Read more »

Newspaper Bits: Daily Mail SMS, Trinity’s Welsh Site - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 27 Aug 2008 07:52 AM PST

-- 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 network worldwide. The…

Read more »

Industry Moves: Mail’s Miron Leaving For Global Radio - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 19 Aug 2008 12:33 AM PST

Mail On Sunday and Mail Online managing director Stephen Miron is leaving to join Global Radio as CEO of radio. Miron spearheaded the release of Prince’s latest album as a…

Read more »

Teletext Holidays Moving Too Quickly In Mobile? - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 07 Aug 2008 06:56 AM PST

Teletext Holidays, probably the main reason anyone still uses the ageing TV text brand, is going full-steam into developing its mobile offering, and plans to offer holidays for sale wirelessly.…

Read more »

Northcliffe Joins BBC Local Video Opposition - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 05 Aug 2008 06:17 AM PST

Here we go again. DMGT’s Northcliffe regional news publisher has finally joined Trinity Mirror, Johnston Press, GMG Regional Media, The Newspaper Society and even Radio Centre in opposing the £23…

Read more »

Newspaper Round-Up: Metro Does E-Edition, Telegraph.co.uk Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 04 Aug 2008 03:50 AM PST

-- E-Metro: Freesheet Metro is the latest newspaper to roll out a “digital edition”. E-Metro, produced by digital publisher Yudu, tries to replicate the page-turning paradigm of a print newspaper…

Read more »


Earnings: DMGT Ad Sales Rocked In Worsening Economy - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Jul 2008 12:13 AM PST

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 actually up five percent year-on-year…

Read more »

Mail Seeks New Readers With NYC Edition In US Ad Grab - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Jul 2008 04:54 AM PST

Associated Newspapers plans to publish a New York edition of its quintessentially English Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) and Mail On Sunday tabloids, PrintWeek reports. It is enlisting Newsworld to distribute…

Read more »

Associated Northcliffe Digital Restructures, Ditches MD Hart - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Jul 2008 07:52 AM PST

Associated Northcliffe Digital’s MD Andy Hart has left DMGT’s online unit abruptly after six years, ahead of another upcoming restructure. An Associated Newspapers statement (via Hold The Front Page) read:…

Read more »

Industry Moves: DMGT Lures B2B CEO Kavan From Thomson Reuters - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 Jul 2008 12:33 AM PST

Daily Mail General Trust (LSE: DMGT) has lured Thomson Reuters’ (NASDAQ: TRIN) investment and advisory president Suresh Kavan to become the new CEO of its DMG Information (DMGI) B2B info…

Read more »

Print Bits: Mail Tops ABCe, Telegraph Widgets - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 19 Jun 2008 10:48 AM PST

-- Telegraph.co.uk: The Telegraph website is trying to take its content off-site by launching a suite of “widgets”. Telegraph.co.uk/widgets packages sections of the news site in to boxes readers can…

Read more »

Minogue’s Ex Sues UK Newspapers In France: Web Took Breach Over Borders - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 29 May 2008 09:12 AM PST

Kylie Minogue’s ex just keeps on setting legal precedents. A French court has ordered two UK newspapers to pay fines for breaking privacy law in France - because they publish…

Read more »

Earnings: Motors.co.uk Knocks AND Profit, Mail Online Made £4 Million In H1 - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 22 May 2008 12:20 AM PST

Setting up its new Motors.co.uk classifieds portal knocked a whopping £3.6 million off Associated Northcliffe Digital’s operating profit in the half-year to March 30, which settled at just £2.2 million.…

Read more »

Weekend Deja Vu: Virtual Newsreaders Making A Comeback? Probably Not - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 16 May 2008 11:00 PM PST

Oh dear. Remember Ananova, Press Association’s virtual newsreader that was killed off after the site’s acquisition by Orange? Northcliffe remembers, too, and - though the flaky experiment was headline-grabbing eight…

Read more »

Print Bits: Mail’s Busy Redesign; Times’ Losses - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 06:16 AM PST

-- 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 the new-look Guardian.co.uk‘s front. Beta.dailymail.co.uk…

Read more »

Daily Mail Launches Free Mobile Text Service - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 18 Feb 2008 08:08 AM PST

The UK’s Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) launched an unlimited text messaging service today, aimed at driving consumers to its mobile web portal, reports Marketing Week. The MailTXT service, a joint…

Read more »

Earnings: Northcliffe Digital Rev Up 90 Percent At End Of 2007 - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 06 Feb 2008 01:09 AM PST

DMGT’s regional news division saw a 90 percent increase in digital revenue during the final quarter of 2007. The Northcliffe unit, which runs 43 local news websites, reported total revenue…

Read more »

Daily Mail Closing SimplySwitch Comparison Site - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 01 Feb 2008 04:52 AM PST

Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) publisher DMGT is closing down its SimplySwitch price comparison site just 14 months after it acquired it for up to £22 million. Associated New Media MD…

Read more »

Metro Paper Taps Reader Videos, Music For Revenue - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 11 Dec 2007 04:29 AM PST

Associated Newspapers’ Metro freesheet is trialling a user video sharing site from which contributors can earn an advertising revenue share. MEview lets readers get a whole £1 for every 1,000…

Read more »

Print Bits: Daily Sport Hiatus, Dublin Free Content, Latest ABCe - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 22 Nov 2007 06:54 AM PST

- Daily Sport: The tabloid newspaper’s new owner has “mothballed” the title’s website and is planning a redesign with less focus on naked flesh and more on mobile consumption, NMA…

Read more »

Earnings: DMGT Digital Profit Drops £2 Million On Investment, Regional Online Revs Up 77 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 21 Nov 2007 01:52 AM PST

Operating profit at Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) publisher DMGT’s Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) division fell by £2 million to £11 million in preliminary results for the year to September 30,…

Read more »

Associated Newspapers Selling Off Its Stake In Hotels4U - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 29 Oct 2007 05:07 AM PST

Here’s an unusual thing - a newspaper selling a listings website. Or part of one, at least. DMGT’s Associated Newspapers, which itself has snapped up several classifieds site to bolster…

Read more »

In Print: Sun Claims 22.2 Million Readers; Northcliffe Relaunches Begin Next Week - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 16 Oct 2007 04:56 AM PST

- 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 editions in September…

Read more »

DMGT: ‘Digital Has A Key Role To Play’ In Local Publishing Operation - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Thu 11 Oct 2007 04:57 AM PST

During this week’s investor briefing by Northcliffe Media, the Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) and General Trust (DMGT) division, Michael Pelosi, the MD of the regional newspaper division, said that “digital…

Read more »

Associated Online Restructure Separates News And Commercial Operations - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 09 Oct 2007 07:29 AM PST

Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) has announced a major restructuring of its digital operations that puts some of its biggest news websites back under the control of their print publications. --…

Read more »

 

Mobile Options

» Mobile App
» Mobile/WAP Site

Send a News Tip

About

paidContent:UK covers the business of digital media for the U.K. and European markets.

Robert Andrews
U.K. Editor

Staci D. Kramer
Co-Editor

Dianne See Morrison
Contributing Writer

Ingrid Lunden
U.K. Contributor

Rafat Ali
Publisher

Online Ad Deals Report

Social Media Report

New Media/Interactive Job Listings

Post Job
More Jobs

Generous Supporters