Daily Mail owner suffers fresh fall in advertising

DMGT, the owner of the Daily Mail, has suffered another severe fall in advertising since November after the most recent lockdowns battered its free sheet newspapers and events business. Underlying group revenue fell 15 per cent in the first quarter of its financial year, as the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic hit the company's events business and newspaper titles. Print advertising at the group fell 38 per cent in the quarter, principally because of a big fall in readership for the Metro newspaper, a free sheet hit particularly hard by movement restrictions. Overall advertising fell 16 per cent on a like-for-like basis, with digital revenues rising 8 per cent because of a stronger performance from MailOnline. Underlying events business to business revenues fell by 30 per cent, with events down 92 per cent and like-for-like sales at DMGT's insurance risk arm falling by 17 per cent.

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