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Dominic Carter

Season 2, Ep. 16

Ciar Byrne talks to Dominic Carter, group chief commercial officer at News UK, about the “story telling business” we’re all in and how the future is based on driving innovation and encouraging collaboration.

Dominic describes how this year has been the toughest ever as advertising virtually disappeared for two months, but that his message to advertisers is, “being absent from the market will hold back your growth when the pandemic is over”.

By focusing on audience reach, the newspaper sector has a positive growth story to tell. Driving better engagement with, and understanding of, consumers, establishing full funnel attribution metrics and making advertising easier to buy, will all enable newspapers to compete effectively for a greater share of the advertiser wallet. 

The newspaper sector has changed hugely in the thirty years he’s worked in it, Dominic tells Ciar, but it remains an incredibly exciting place to work.

(This interview was recorded on 17th November.)

We would like to thank our podcasts sponsor – Acorn Web Offset, the Yorkshire-based specialist A5 and A4 magazine printer. With high speed web offset and sheet-fed printing together with in-house saddle stitching, perfect binding and mailing services, Acorn can cope with the most demanding of production turnarounds. Acorn prides itself on its efficiency and low cost print production.

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Claire Hodgson

Season 5, Ep. 5
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