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An updated look at the top 50 biggest media companies in the UK reveals that traditional news publishers continue to face stiff competition in the news and information space. Press Gazette ranks media companies by revenue and focuses on those operating in the news and information space.
You can view Press Gazette’s 2022 biggest media companies in the UK ranking here.
The threat from big tech
While Press Gazette does not include US giants Google and Facebook on our list of UK media companies, they both would easily make the top ten if we did. Google’s UK advertising revenue alone would likely put it in first position on our list and Facebook’s £2.5bn UK ad revenue would put it in fifth position, per News Media Association figures.
Search advertising, dominated by Google, was worth £13.1bn in the UK in 2022 according to AA/Warc – 14 times more than the £937m earned by news and magazine brands from online advertising in the same period. Google and Meta’s collective global earnings are bigger than the combined revenue of all the companies on our list.
Data and information companies are challengers to B2B publishers
At the top of our table for the second year in a row is information and analytics giant RELX, formerly known as Reed Elsevier, while Informa is ranked five, climbing one place since our 2022 ranking and displacing Murdoch’s News UK into sixth position. Informa’s acquisition of US trade publisher Industry Dive helped to boost its position as a specialist information provider and contributed to its revenue of £2.3 billion, up from £1.58 billion in 2021.
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Delinian, formerly known as Euromoney Institutional Investor, ranked 14, and Euromonitor, ranked 30, are two other British information companies that rank highly.
Legacy names hold their own
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