dmg media

dmg media is DMGT’s consumer publishing business, and it goes back further than most people probably realize, all the way to 1896, when Alfred and Harold Harmsworth started the Daily Mail in London. The parent company, Daily Mail and General Trust, got incorporated in 1922 and floated on the London Stock Exchange a decade later, in 1932. One thing that hasn’t changed through any of that: it’s still family-run. Jonathan Harmsworth, the 4th Viscount Rothermere, chairs the business today, carrying on a line of ownership that’s stayed in the family since the beginning.

The company picked up its current name in 2013, when Associated Newspapers got rebranded as dmg media, folding in Northcliffe Media, Harmsworth Printing, and Harmsworth Media along the way. Before that, though, two other big additions had already happened, The Mail on Sunday in 1982 and Metro in 1999, launched as a free paper that ended up becoming the most widely read weekday title in the country.

These days dmg media runs the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Metro, and i. Between them, the titles reach something like one in five UK adults every day and around 70% of the population at some point each month. The Daily Mail still pulls over 3 million daily readers and holds the top spot for Saturday papers in the UK. MailOnline, meanwhile, has grown into the biggest English-language news site in the world, and Metro remains the most-circulated weekday paper going.

dmg media sits under the wider DMGT umbrella alongside other divisions like dmg events and dmg information, and across all of it, the group operates in more than 40 countries with revenues sitting close to £2 billion.