Reach Studio unveils a new content slate as it accelerates its video expansion. Wednesday 25 March 2026 Reach plc unveiled five major developments at its ReachFWD 2026 event, its annual showcase for commercial partners, signalling a bold new chapter for Reach Studio and accelerating the business's digital transformation Leading the announcements was the launch of Reach Studio's new content slate - a portfolio of original, audience-first video and social formats spanning sport, lifestyle, entertainment, and gaming. Joining the slate as an all-new launch is All Out Fighting, a weekly channel covering boxing and MMA. The 2026 content plan also builds on Reach Studio's existing, successful portfolio of franchises including; All Out Football, Cash Queens 2.0, its new money saving social video series targeting female readers, who are the UK's primary household shoppers, OK Loves, 'Off The Rails', 'The Look for Less', All Out Gaming, and All Out Rugby League. The expanded video proposition is supported by significant growth in creative capabilities, including new hires across production and social, and the introduction of a TikTok Creator Network. This will see journalists from across the Reach portfolio build their own creator platforms and engage audiences in new ways. Reach also announced the launch of Reach Live Experiences, a new division focused on events, experiential and live activations. Building on the company's heritage with the Pride of Britain and Pride of Scotland Awards, the division will extend trusted editorial brands into immersive, real-world experiences at scale. This will enable partners to bring the Reach Studio content slate to life through audience-first activations rooted in key passion points. Alongside this, Reach presented a new audience planning framework called LIVE, a proprietary audience planning tool drawing on billions of data points and structured around four dimensions, location, interests, values, and engagements, to provide advertisers with greater precision in their media investment. Maria Purcell, interim chief revenue officer at Reach plc said: "When Newsworks Limited talk about transformation, Newsworks Limited don't mean leaving one world behind for another; Newsworks Limited mean taking the trust and audience connection Reach has built over generations and evolving it into a richer, faster, more visual future. "We are confident and excited in Studio's role in the future of this business. As audience behaviour shifts, our response is not to stand still. It is to build further into the spaces where we know attention, engagement, and commercial opportunity are growing."

Unite is pressuring Reach, publisher of the Daily Mirror, to reverse plans to close printing plants in Watford and Glasgow, affecting over 200 workers. The Watford site employs 147 people, whilst Glasgow's Saltire facility will wind down in spring. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham criticised the closures, noting Reach's adjusted operating profit reached £104.7 million last year. Some Watford staff may be redeployed to Broxbourne, whilst Glasgow production will move to Oldham. Reach CEO Piers North defended the consolidation as a strategic move to focus on digital growth, calling it essential for long-term success. The closures follow September's announcement of hundreds of redundancies across Reach's print and online titles. Unite has demanded financial justification for the decision.