The writer of the Categorical & Star and the Shropshire Star has seen its web site visitors get a lift, particularly since lockdown started. The figures present that Expressandstar.com now has 2.eight million month-to-month distinctive customers, with 13 million month-to-month web page views. Whereas Shropshirestar.com has 1.three million month-to-month distinctive customers and 6 million month-to-month web page views.

Martin Wright, MNA’s editor-in-chief, mentioned that is excellent news for advertisers which might be eager to extend their on-line presence. “Now, greater than ever, folks wish to entry the newest information and browse tales about what is occurring of their space,” he mentioned. “We now have made it even simpler for our subscribers to entry this important information, and we’re going to proceed growing the app to make sure they’ve the perfect expertise potential.

“Companies know that by working with us, their adverts are going to achieve an enormous viewers throughout the Midlands. The suggestions we get from corporations, in regards to the affect their promoting has with us, is great. We proceed to be a trusted information supply that folks flip to repeatedly to get their information. The funding we’ve made in our on-line providing is proving well-liked with our readers and with companies trying enhance their presence at this troublesome time.”

This summer time the corporate launched a brand new and improved newspaper e-reader app after listening to reader suggestions. They labored with new app supplier PugPig and now, for simply £5.99 a month, subscribers can entry a digital version of the Categorical & Star or Shropshire Star newspaper wherever they’re. The app permits subscribers to learn the newest information, sport and leisure on their smartphone, pill and in addition entry a desktop reader.

For the Categorical & Star app go to: get-reader.expressandstar.com and for the Shropshire Star app go to: get-reader.shropshirestar.com