Inside The Daily Mail’s creator-led content playbook

Daily Mail publisher DMG Media has hired more than two dozen creators onto its payroll since it launched its creator-led social channels in October 2025. 

Between them, these creators produce 10 to 20 original long and short-form videos daily, across topics ranging from football fandom to the issues young people face in the U.K., which are posted on the publisher’s social channels.

So far, creator-led content has generated on average between 250,000 and 300,000 views, which is above the average of their traditional social channels (Daily Mail and Mail Sport), according to the publisher without providing specifics. And they’ve attracted branded partnerships and sponsorship opportunities, though DMG declined to provide financial details or name exact brand names.

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In graphic detail: The numbers making the case for what holdcos could be

Few execs in advertising have a taller in-tray than the CEOs of the big agency groups. AI, talent, platforms, regulators, investors, billionaires – the pressures are real and multiplying. But trace most of them back far enough and they have the same root cause: somewhere along the way, these businesses stopped being about making CMOs look good. 

The data suggests they have a chance to change that. Read on.

An impending crisis 

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