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Northcliffe: The limits of cost-cutting

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Tuesday 22 March 2011

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It’s groundhog day at Northcliffe Media. Steve Auckland, the new managing director, laid out his priorities today in an interview with The Guardian: Reducing the number of days on which some loss-making titles publish. The possibility of newspaper closures. Increased autonomy (“I’m trying to do away with the corporate stuff and getting the editors and [...]

Posted in Advertising, Financial, Journalism, Local, Newspapers | Also tagged Daily Mail & General Trust, Steve Auckland | Comments closed

Exclusive: DMGT to launch Groupon rival

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Friday 11 March 2011

Associated & Northcliffe Media, the consumer arm of Daily Mail & General Trust, is preparing to launch a competitor to US-based discount voucher site Groupon. According to a source familiar with the project, DMGT is currently working on final builds of its “daily deals” platform. DMGT is expected to acquire what’s described as “a very [...]

Posted in Advertising, Digital, Local, Mobile, Social | Also tagged Associated Newspapers, Daily Mail & General Trust, Facebook, Groupon, Kevin Beatty, Roland Bryan | Comments closed

DMGT 2010: A weak and narrow recovery takes shape

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Thursday 25 November 2010

What’s not to like about DMGT’s final results for the year to October? A few things. Although the overall numbers suggest a welcome improvement, classified ad markets remain broken, online and in print. After the steep declines of 2008-2009, this recovery still feels very weak. In addition, digital strategy isn’t delivering much joy. Revenues at [...]

Posted in Advertising, Economy, Financial, Local, Newspapers | Also tagged classified, Daily Mail, Daily Mail & General Trust, local newspapers, Mail Online, Martin Clarke, Martin Morgan | Comments closed

Ad revenue gloom continues at DMGT

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Tuesday 29 September 2009

This morning brings a carefully-worded trading update from Daily Mail & General Trust. Quoted companies use trading updates to “guide” the market toward reasonable expectations for full-year results. DMGT’s financial year finishes in early October. The company will report full-year results on 26th November. I said the statement was carefully-worded. Actually, the lack of any sign [...]

Posted in Advertising, Financial, Newspapers | Also tagged Advertising, Associated Newspapers, Daily Mail & General Trust, recession | Comments closed

The decline & fall of local newspapers, Part 1

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Tuesday 23 June 2009

It’s probably time to plead that I wasn’t one of those hacks who failed to absorb Digital Britain in its full 230-page splendour. Yes, I read it. Whether this makes me immune to Lord Carter’s charge of having regurgitated “bullshit”, I don’t know. It didn’t feel as if I was doing this. Hopefully, I would have [...]

Posted in Digital, Local, Newspapers | Also tagged Advertising, data, John Fry, Johnston Press, local newspapers, Lord Carter, machine-readable, Newsquest, Ofcom, OFT. Digital Britain, SirTim Berners-Lee, Trinity Mirror | Comments closed

Deflation will put an end to the supermarkets’ advertising jamboree

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Monday 22 June 2009

One of this recession’s more remarkable phenomena has been the resilience of retail advertising. A few weeks ago, Martin Morgan, chief executive of Daily Mail & General Trust, called retail an “area of strength”. In times like these, this kind of thing is all relative, of course. The graph reproduced here, which accompanied Morgan’s presentation, [...]

Posted in Advertising, Economy, Newspapers | Also tagged Advertising, Associated Newspapers, Daily Mail & General Trust, Martin Morgan, recession, retail, supermarkets, Trinity Mirror | Comments closed

Local press consolidation: How Lord Carter and the OFT opened the door for the Big Four

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Thursday 18 June 2009

Two months ago, Sly Bailey of Trinity Mirror told a Digital Britain conference: “All we are asking for is a 21st century merger regime to support 21st century media.” This week, The Office of Fair Trading published a 105pp annex to Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report. In an accompanying statement, John Fingleton, chief executive of the [...]

Posted in Financial, Newspapers | Also tagged Advertising, competition law, Digital Britain, Johnston Press, Local Media Alliance, Lord Carter, Newsquest, Office Of Fair Trading, Sly Bailey, Trinity Mirror | Comments closed

Northcliffe & Associated: Desperately seeking an upturn

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Friday 22 May 2009

Bang: this is where things get really tricky. DMGT’s results for the six months to 29th March demonstrate how badly the news business needs a post-Christmas upturn, as forecast by the Chancellor. Northcliffe Media avoided lurching into the red by the narrowest of margins. DMGT’s regional newspaper arm announced UK-based operating profits of £3.2m on [...]

Posted in Financial, Newspapers | Also tagged Associated Newspapers, Daily Mail & General Trust | Comments closed

In property classifieds, the winner isn’t a publisher

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Monday 11 May 2009

At Johnston Press last year, regional property advertising declined by 32%. The decline at Trinity Mirror was 27%. During the course of the year, the two companies saw somewhere in the region of £40m-worth of property-related advertising disappear into thin air. Putting a number on the deficit in property-related advertising at Northcliffe and Newsquest is [...]

Posted in Advertising, Local, Newspapers | Also tagged Daily Mail & General Trust, property classifieds, Rightmove, Trinity Mirror | Comments closed

Collapsing ad markets mean that only redundancies will keep the bankers happy

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Thursday 26 March 2009

I see that the media buying agencies are starting to catch up with the real world. Well, sort of. Carat has just issued a forecast suggesting that UK ad markets will decline in value by 7.1% YOY during 2009. Only four months ago, they were predicting a decline of 2.2%. With ad revenues at ITV down [...]

Posted in Advertising, Economy, Financial, Local, Newspapers | Also tagged ad revenues, Johnston Press, recession, Trinity Mirror | Comments closed

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