Last week, the Met Office issued its first heat alert of 2023 as a plume of hot air from southern Europe made its way to the UK to push temperatures into the 30s. With millions of Brits sizzling in the sunshine we saw engagement with our Weather content and related topics rise.

Last week’s school half term put Travel on the agenda for families nationwide. With many Brits making a break for it, even the busy roads, train strikes and malfunctioning electronic passport gates couldn’t stop them enjoying a well-deserved break. Our latest Reading the Nation has more.

Last week, our Sport category enjoy a record seven days for engagement as weekly page views hit 67.7m for the first time. Looking ahead, we can expect even more engagement for Football, Tennis and Auto Racing in the coming weeks as the 2023 summer of sport begins.

Our latest campaign case study shares the results of our partnership with The LEGO Group on a Christmas campaign last year that drove an incredible +26% point brand lift.

In our debut Ozone format focus, our resident video expert – client services manager Ryan Savage – presses play on pre-roll to deep dive into our Premium Only Video instream capability.

Last week, a combination of seasonality and headline news made it a blockbuster seven days for multiple Entertainment categories across our premium publishers. Combined Entertainments page views for Video Gaming, Fine Art, Movies and Television were +22% higher vs. the four-week average.

From festivals in farmers’ fields and weekends full of wedding wow to spectacular sporting occasions and beautiful beachy holidays, summer brings with it a truly unrivalled fun factor for millions of Brits nationwide. Our latest insight feature has more.

Liverpool, a city synonymous with world-famous music, played host to the Eurovision Song Contest last week and pop’s biggest party truly delivered. Our Music & Audio category recorded the biggest increase in page views with 21.5m of them up +63% week on week.

Following a full year carbon emissions audit by independent environmental consultants Green Element, we have published the results or our business in 2022, plus our commitments and targets for emissions reduction moving forward.