Dominic Ponsford
@dominicponsford.bsky.social
I'm the editor in chief of Press Gazette. On here to find and share tidbits about the business of news. There's no business like news business. Journalism, media, publishing.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Went straight to the comments on this one
Would not be the worst thing if Google stopped sending traffic to these sort of pages. This match is not on TV.
October 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Would not be the worst thing if Google stopped sending traffic to these sort of pages. This match is not on TV.
🤔 Standard headline had me reaching for my Plato, and I think he would disagree!
July 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🤔 Standard headline had me reaching for my Plato, and I think he would disagree!
Looking at the top ten biggest UK website publishers, just one is UK-owned. pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
July 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Looking at the top ten biggest UK website publishers, just one is UK-owned. pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
Peter Trace died in 1992
June 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Peter Trace died in 1992
Is it possible he was joking?
June 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Is it possible he was joking?
The new Samsung News app for Android is full of crappy chumbox-style links to MFA sites. Very limited range of publishers on there too. Not good.
June 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The new Samsung News app for Android is full of crappy chumbox-style links to MFA sites. Very limited range of publishers on there too. Not good.
Celebrity net worth articles are the last refuge of the SEO scoundrel!
May 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Celebrity net worth articles are the last refuge of the SEO scoundrel!
I have ditched Google Discover for Samsung News as my phone news aggregator. It's OK bit a bit broad (not enough sources). Any recommendations for good phone news aggregation apps?
May 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I have ditched Google Discover for Samsung News as my phone news aggregator. It's OK bit a bit broad (not enough sources). Any recommendations for good phone news aggregation apps?
According to Google AI overviews, Google and Meta's combined earnings from advertising alone in the UK were £26bn in 2024. This is based on my Press Gazette report.
No one has yet challenged this figure or come up with a better one. That is 60% of all UK adspend. pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/go...
No one has yet challenged this figure or come up with a better one. That is 60% of all UK adspend. pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/go...
May 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
According to Google AI overviews, Google and Meta's combined earnings from advertising alone in the UK were £26bn in 2024. This is based on my Press Gazette report.
No one has yet challenged this figure or come up with a better one. That is 60% of all UK adspend. pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/go...
No one has yet challenged this figure or come up with a better one. That is 60% of all UK adspend. pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/go...
Clickbait headline does not deliver and story includes cringe description of prize money as "sizeable". Just give us the figure and let reader draw their own conclusions on how big it is!
April 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Clickbait headline does not deliver and story includes cringe description of prize money as "sizeable". Just give us the figure and let reader draw their own conclusions on how big it is!
Peter Hitchens in today's Mail 🤨
March 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Peter Hitchens in today's Mail 🤨
This weather forecast from Birmingham Live maybe right for North Pole but not the UK as confused readers will find out if they click
December 23, 2024 at 8:48 AM
This weather forecast from Birmingham Live maybe right for North Pole but not the UK as confused readers will find out if they click
Birmingham Live weather coverage is absolute nonsense every day and always seems to involve a snow bomb!
December 22, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Birmingham Live weather coverage is absolute nonsense every day and always seems to involve a snow bomb!
Don't worry, they haven't. (I've clicked so you don't have to)
December 19, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Don't worry, they haven't. (I've clicked so you don't have to)
I've clicked on this so you don't have to. A weather story which never explains the headline and drifts into weird word soup half way through
December 17, 2024 at 6:56 PM
I've clicked on this so you don't have to. A weather story which never explains the headline and drifts into weird word soup half way through
I'm no scientist but these affiliate posts appear to rewrite the laws of physics. A small heater that heats small room cheaper than heating entire house would be more accurate headline
December 17, 2024 at 6:45 PM
I'm no scientist but these affiliate posts appear to rewrite the laws of physics. A small heater that heats small room cheaper than heating entire house would be more accurate headline
Bonkers story reads like it was written by AI and nowhere explains figure in the headline
December 17, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Bonkers story reads like it was written by AI and nowhere explains figure in the headline
Misleadingly headlined content stolen from another website. Martin Lewis did not say anything. Not really a warning. Publish and be damned, but not in the way Hugh Cudlipp meant it.
December 12, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Misleadingly headlined content stolen from another website. Martin Lewis did not say anything. Not really a warning. Publish and be damned, but not in the way Hugh Cudlipp meant it.
Daily Mail has done a waspy one-pager on Observer sale: mol.im/a/14141613
November 30, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Daily Mail has done a waspy one-pager on Observer sale: mol.im/a/14141613
Decent backgrounder in Telegraph on Observer kerfuffle. Article not quite as exciting as the headline!
November 30, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Decent backgrounder in Telegraph on Observer kerfuffle. Article not quite as exciting as the headline!
Dylan Jones has stepped down as editor of The London Standard. Great magazine editor but not sure he was the right fit for this role. There is so much going on in London...give me some London content guys please!!! (Current front page a case in point) pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
November 28, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Dylan Jones has stepped down as editor of The London Standard. Great magazine editor but not sure he was the right fit for this role. There is so much going on in London...give me some London content guys please!!! (Current front page a case in point) pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
I've done a piece on the Mirror-OK! merger in which I discovered that the Mirror has published 29 stories about I'm a Celebrity in the last 24 hours alone pressgazette.co.uk/news/mirror-...
November 27, 2024 at 10:56 AM
I've done a piece on the Mirror-OK! merger in which I discovered that the Mirror has published 29 stories about I'm a Celebrity in the last 24 hours alone pressgazette.co.uk/news/mirror-...
The Telegraph today reports on new figures which show The Observer makes a £3m profit. This won't be news to readers of Press Gazette which first reported on the Observer's stand-alone financial position two months ago pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
November 25, 2024 at 3:22 PM
The Telegraph today reports on new figures which show The Observer makes a £3m profit. This won't be news to readers of Press Gazette which first reported on the Observer's stand-alone financial position two months ago pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
I'm enjoying Bluesky but I get a lot less DMs on here than I did on X 🙃
November 24, 2024 at 8:17 PM
I'm enjoying Bluesky but I get a lot less DMs on here than I did on X 🙃