

“We’ve invested a lot of our time, effort, and capital in expanding across the world. “We’ve been very popular in the UK for many of those years,” he added. However, dmg has 10 years of experience behind it, he said. Not everybody agrees that that’s the case,” Beatty said. “Scale is absolutely important to us, because we believe, at this point in time, that digital advertising will make this business a hugely profitable business as well as actually building capital equity for our company. We believe the return on investment is much clearer than that.”Ĭoming back to print, he also noted that dmg reaches 64 percent of the adult population in the UK each month with its newspapers and is also beginning to see advertisers return to print for the first time in the past four or five years. “Furthermore, with that content and that level of insight, we can understand the interests of those customers at that point in time, and how that interest changes over time.” Cross-media advertising takes offīeatty added that the fastest growing part of dmg’s business, aside from digital-only advertising, is cross-media advertising, “where we combine the proposition of our newspaper audiences with our digital audiences to create real storytelling opportunities which some people would describe as native advertising.

“We care about the 15 million individuals who engage with our products across a variety of different devices and across a day, average around 54 minutes, absolutely engaged with that content,” he said. In total, dmg reaches some 234 million unique users per month, but Beatty says the number that matters the most to him and to dmg is the number of dedicated users, the people they reach every day, and that’s about 15 million, with 6 million of those being in the UK. He said on MailOnline, an algorithm continuously moves many of the most-viewed stories higher up on the homepage. We absolutely believe that storytelling based or founded on quality, popular journalism, is the essence of our business. “We are proud of our role as storytellers. And I emphasize seriously popular journalism,” he added. “Our role is to actually tell the stories, founded on seriously popular journalism. “We are very clear in what our role is,” he said. With its 800 journalists, dmg places a strong emphasis on storytelling. In a world where there’s no shortage of content, it is quality that matters most, Beatty said. “That’s a brand extension which for us would never have been possible without the fact that our seriously popular journalism actually took off in the US,” he said.
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He described DailyMailTV as a joint venture that uses the company’s journalism taken from New York, London, Sydney, and other parts of the world to create an hour-long TV show with the Daily Mail branding. – Kevin Beatty, CEO of dmg, publisher of the Daily Mail and MailOnline. “It’s absolutely amazing to somebody like me, who started in the UK at the very early stages of the digital revolution, to see DailyMailTV now being carried by cable companies that reach 92 percent of the homes in the US.” It would certainly seem that experimentation has paid off, and dmg has proved itself keenly adept at working across platforms, most recently launching DailyMailTV – not in its home market, the UK, but in the USA. And it was only in about 2005 or 2006 that we decided to take our flagship newspaper brand and put it on the web.” As seen on DailyMailTV “We didn’t take our newspaper brands and put them on the web back in 1995, ’96,” Beatty said. Some might think that with such a dominant position, dmg must have jumped into digital very early and had natural instincts for the medium. It is the largest in English, with only a couple of Chinese media brands in front of it, Beatty said. MailOnline is one of the most successful news websites in the world, and the third largest. Largest English-language news site in the world Today, “At Northcliffe House, which is the headquarters of our company, we talk about how a successful news media brand company prospers in a digital world,” Beatty told a standing-room-only crowd during the opening session of IFRA Expo and DCX in Berlin.
