Robert Andrews
Feb 8, 2012 8:55 AM
Mail Online may have overtaken The New York Times’ website for global audience, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) - but, in reality, the two are still an ocean apart.
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Robert Andrews
Feb 8, 2012 3:08 AM
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 reported in Wednesday’s interim disclosure for its October-to-January earnings.
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Peter Preston
TheObserver (Guardian)
Jan 29, 2012 10:00 AM
The championship of the online newspaper world changed hands the other day. The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) (as measured by comScore (NSDQ: SCOR), currently the most fashionable collector of digital evidence extant) had 44.8m unique visitors in December, while our own dear Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) had 45.3m. Manhattan’s…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 26, 2012 4:38 AM
Euro money (the currency) may be going through a rough patch, but Euromoney (the publisher) is in rude health.
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Roy Greenslade
MediaGuardian
Jan 19, 2012 4:48 AM
The Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) has expanded its international digital presence with the introduction of Daily Mail online India.
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Robert Andrews
Dec 14, 2011 4:12 AM
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 interactive content, to its management.
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Robert Andrews
Nov 30, 2011 5:15 AM
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 classifieds…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 23, 2011 8:30 AM
“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 content,” DMGT CEO Martin Morgan told City analysts.
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Robert Andrews
Nov 23, 2011 5:50 AM
Associated Newspapers’ digital operations, comprising Mail Online, Metro’s website and ThisIsMoney, lost £900,000 ($1407127.19) in the year to October, after the publisher invested in building a U.S. team.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 25, 2011 7:38 AM
UK free commuter newspaper Metro‘s new iPad Newsstand edition has proved almost as popular within two weeks of launch as its predecessor had been over a whole year.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 14, 2011 7:31 AM
Mail Online operator A&N Media is pulling a bold and unexpected move that has finally placed it ahead of market-leading Rightmove.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 5, 2011 12:29 PM
UK regional newspaper publisher Northcliffe Media was only paying its LocalPeople community publishers £4,800. ($7418.03) Now it wants those publishers to pay it.
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Staci D. Kramer
Oct 3, 2011 4:40 PM
The internet makes it possible to broadcast breaking news at a pace unlike anything we’ve ever experienced. Unfortunately, that includes the ability to rapidly transmit reports that never should have been written, much less published. Today’s case in point: the Daily Mail‘s hasty—and largely apocryphal—report that American Amanda Knox had…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 17, 2011 3:03 AM
An ironic footnote to the story from yesterday that involved the Daily Mail shutting down a proxy site for making unauthorized caches of its articles: a blogger says the online site for the newspaper has used her photographs, even after correspondence showed that the Mail editors failed to meet her…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 16, 2011 6:07 PM
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 position as a hugely popular news destination—but proxy sites that don’t link back to the Mail itself? That’s a whole different story. Lawyers for Associated Newspapers,…
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Robert Andrews
Jul 26, 2011 4:18 AM
Mail Online and Metro.co.uk are making 51 percent more revenue than last year. That’s the difference parent DMGT disclosed Tuesday morning.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 21, 2011 7:34 PM
James Murdoch’s testimony on phone hacking is getting called into question by those who were closest to the situation at the time: that could have a huge impact on his position at the company if proven to be true. But it wasn’t the only big development today in the News…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 18, 2011 6:22 AM
Aegis Media, the media buying and marketing division of Aegis Group, is beefing up its mobile assets and activity: it is taking an undisclosed minority stake, worth $11 million, in TigerSpike, a developer of apps for blue-chip publishers like News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). The Economist, Telegraph Media Group and Mail…
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Robert Andrews
Jun 20, 2011 9:44 AM
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 joined A&N Media’s Mail Online as deputy publisher.
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Robert Andrews
May 19, 2011 4:30 AM
Business publisher Euromoney says it will plough more money in to technology and digital products this year, after finding its digital business growing by 15 to 20 percent over the last year.
Half-year subscription revenue jumped 13 percent to £82 ($132.47) million.
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