The Daily Mail had an average monthly reach of over 36.2 million individuals from April 2019 to March 2020. The daily newspapers’ reach was higher among women than men, with nearly 20 million women reached by the newspaper on an average month during the time period.
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily tabloid formatted newspaper founded in 1896. Other editions of the daily paper include its sister paper The Mail on Sunday, as well as the Scottish and Irish Editions. The Daily Mail’s main target audience is lower-middle-class British women. It was the first newspaper in the UK to write articles targeted at women. As of April 2019, the Daily Mail had a circulation of almost 1.2 million newspapers, the second highest in the United Kingdom.
Newspaper consumption in the UK
There has been a decrease in newspaper consumption expenditure in the United Kingdom over recent years. UK households purchased roughly 3.3 million British pounds worth of newspapers in 2018, compared to 4.5 million pounds in 2013. Based on a survey in 2018, 29 percent of adults in Great Britain that regularly access news thought that the quality of the news nowadays is slightly worse than it was five years ago.
Monthly reach of Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday newspapers in the United Kingdom from April 2019 to March 2020, by demographic group
(in 1,000s)
Characteristic
Daily Mail (dailymail.co.uk)
Daily Mail/The Mail on Sunday (dailymail.co.uk)
Adults 15+
36,238
35,103
Men
16,462
15,943
Women
19,760
19,144
Adults 35+
25,599
24,590
Households with children
12,089
11,957
Created with Highcharts 7.2.2Individuals reached in thousands36,23836,23816,46216,46219,76019,76025,59925,59912,08912,08935,10335,10315,94315,94319,14419,14424,59024,59011,95711,957Daily Mail (dailymail.co.uk)Daily Mail/The Mail on Sunday (dailymail.co.uk)Adults 15+MenWomenAdults 35+Households with children
010,00020,00030,00040,000
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Publishers Audience Measurement Company. (March 10, 2021). Monthly reach of Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday newspapers in the United Kingdom from April 2019 to March 2020, by demographic group (in 1,000s) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 01, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/380710/daily-mail-the-mail-on-sunday-monthly-reach-by-demographic-uk/
Publishers Audience Measurement Company. "Monthly reach of Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday newspapers in the United Kingdom from April 2019 to March 2020, by demographic group (in 1,000s)." Chart. March 10, 2021. Statista. Accessed March 01, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/380710/daily-mail-the-mail-on-sunday-monthly-reach-by-demographic-uk/
Publishers Audience Measurement Company. (2021). Monthly reach of Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday newspapers in the United Kingdom from April 2019 to March 2020, by demographic group (in 1,000s). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: March 01, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/380710/daily-mail-the-mail-on-sunday-monthly-reach-by-demographic-uk/
Publishers Audience Measurement Company. "Monthly Reach of Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday Newspapers in The United Kingdom from April 2019 to March 2020, by Demographic Group (in 1,000s)." Statista, Statista Inc., 10 Mar 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/380710/daily-mail-the-mail-on-sunday-monthly-reach-by-demographic-uk/
Publishers Audience Measurement Company, Monthly reach of Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday newspapers in the United Kingdom from April 2019 to March 2020, by demographic group (in 1,000s) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/380710/daily-mail-the-mail-on-sunday-monthly-reach-by-demographic-uk/ (last visited March 01, 2025)
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