Ozone has announced a new pilot partnership with Mail Metro Media, bringing even more of the UK’s best known and most engaging media brands to the premium publisher alliance.

Stephen Windegaard has been appointed to the new position of Programmatic Sales Lead. Reporting directly to Craig Tuck, Chief Revenue Officer, Stephen will be responsible for building and nurturing Ozone’s relationships with the programmatic operations and trading desks of UK agencies and advertisers.

Our Shopping content enjoyed its highest ever seven day engagement figure last week, with interest in Grocery Shopping for Pancake Day a big page views driver. Expect more seasonal shopping growth with Mother’s Day and Easter coming up in the next six weeks.

Last week, our Television content enjoyed its highest levels of engagement of the year. With reader interest high in the biggest telly events, our publisher content is a key way for readers to extend their viewing passions beyond the box.

In another major milestone for Ozone in our first five years, a new wave of funding has been announced by our shareholders – founding publishers News UK, Reach plc, Guardian Media Group and Telegraph Media Group – to allow us to build on our stellar growth last year.

Commenting on the recent publication of three leading industry reports, our commercial trading director Jacque Chadwick says the time is now for brands to invest in quality, audience-first digital channels.

Savvy savers are getting even savvier as a result of the cost of living crisis. Undoubtedly, part of their journey to better money management involves trusted, premium publisher content. Our latest insight feature explores how what we know about consumer reading habits can inform ISA season campaigns.

The only direction for Harry Styles was up last week as the former boy band star and solo artist picked up major prizes at the Grammy’s and the BRITS. With interest in this year’s BRITS already high due to the awards being gender neutral for the first time, engagement with our Music & Audio content grew.

In our latest Ozone Opinion from Reading the Nation, A Year in Review, our marketing lead Bryan Scott looks at the importance of appointment-to-view TV – must-watch moments on TV that become must-read moments on Ozone.