We are delighted to end January with a swathe of internal promotions – including four senior appointments in our Operations and Commercial teams – as the business aligns itself for further growth in 2023.

The final week of the first month of the year was a glitzy affair as the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards were revealed. As we’ve seen previously, there was engagement growth for our Movies content, up +18% week on week.

Our strategic agency sales lead Natalie Dawson examines the value of trusted premium publisher content during the cost of living crisis in our latest Ozone Opinion from Reading the Nation, A Year in Review.

The cold snap may have driven car readers to content about keeping their motors running during the big freeze, but much of last week’s +25% page views growth for our Automotive category is due to expected interest in new cars in the build up to March’s new registration plate launch.

Our latest case study for a video campaign we partnered on with a leading UK financial institution drove impressive brand lift thanks to strong 77.9% viewability and 46.7% VTR.

With housing such a topic of interest in the first few weeks of any year as potential buyers, sellers and renters assess their options, it’s no surprise that there’s been continued growth in engagement with our Property content. Up +15% last week, 6.4m page views is the third consecutive week of growth for the category.

Our strategy lead Frances Lazenby explores how Ozone’s unique first-party data highlights the moments that matter most to consumers and discusses the evolution of the new planning paradigms in our latest Ozone Opinion from Reading the Nation, A Year in Review.

Reading the Nation, A Year in Review is your essential planning guide for the year ahead. Highlighting the impact of seasonality and tentpole occasions on reader habits, the review also features four Ozone Opinions to help guide planning around bigger topics and events.

Last week, while Books & Literature page views more than doubled as the official release of Prince Harry’s autobiography ‘Spare’ – due out this week – was scuppered by leaks, there was early January growth for our Personal Finance content.