Low daylight raking across the stone, brass and glass atrium of a Meridale financial building.

A small audience, in the right chairs.

Montlior has never had the largest readership in Coravia. It has, for sixty years, had the one that decides.

Headline readership figures

2.1m

Weekly readership

Print, web, app and editions, de-duplicated

64%

Senior or board roles

Director level and above

840k

Newsletter subscribers

Across eleven editorial titles

412k

Median household income

Coravian marks, against a national median of 96k

71%

Degree or higher

38% hold a postgraduate qualification

34 min

With the Saturday edition

Median time, self-reported

All figures are twelve-month averages to December 2025. See the methodology note.

Composition

Who is actually reading.

The readership is unusually concentrated. Nine sectors account for more than nine in ten readers, and two in three hold a role with a budget attached to it.

Sector

Share of weekly readership. Bars are drawn to the largest sector, not to 100%.

  • Finance & professional services28%

  • Government & public administration17%

  • Industry, energy & infrastructure14%

  • Technology11%

  • Law9%

  • Health & life sciences8%

  • Education & culture7%

  • Other6%

Seniority

  • Board & C-suite 24%
  • Senior management 40%
  • Professional & specialist 26%
  • Other 10%

Weekly readership, five years

Millions of de-duplicated weekly readers across all platforms.

  • 2021
    1.62
  • 2022
    1.74
  • 2023
    1.86
  • 2024
    1.98
  • 2025
    2.10

Geography

Share of weekly readership, drawn to the largest region.

  • Meridale & the capital region34%

  • Rest of Coravia31%

  • Valcourt & the western ports16%

  • The Meridian Accord13%

  • Rest of world6%

Where they read

  • Web1.35m

  • Newsletters0.84m

  • App & digital editions0.71m

  • Print0.64m

  • Podcasts0.24m

Platforms overlap; the sum exceeds the de-duplicated weekly total of 2.1 million.

Two people in overcoats on a stone balustrade at dusk, looking out over the Meridale skyline and its lit advertising panels.

Attention, not reach

The figure we would rather you judged us on.

Reach is the easiest number in this industry to inflate and the least useful to buy. We publish ours, but we would rather you looked at the second column: how long a reader stays, how often they come back, and how many of them are the person in their organisation who signs.

  • 6.4 visits per reader per week, median
  • 9 minutes 40 seconds median read-through on a Studio feature
  • 58% median newsletter open rate, twelve-month average
  • 91% of print readers describe themselves as regular
  • Under 4% of weekly readers arrive from social platforms

That last figure is the one our commercial director is proudest of. It means the audience came looking, and it means it will still be here next quarter.

On the readership

Samir Odell, Economics Editor of Montlior News, photographed against a plain grey studio background.

When I write about the Bank of Coravia I assume the person reading it was in the room. That assumption is the whole product — and it is why we will not sell anything that makes the page harder to believe.

Samir Odell Economics Editor, Montlior News

Methodology

How these numbers are made.

We publish our method because a figure you cannot interrogate is a figure you should not buy against.

Readership is drawn from the Montlior Readership Survey, an annual study of 9,400 adults in Coravia and the Meridian Accord, weighted to the national workforce by age, region, sector and seniority, and fielded by an independent research house between September and November each year.

Digital reach is measured server-side and de-duplicated across web, app and newsletters using a first-party identifier. It is not modelled, and it excludes traffic we cannot attribute to a returning reader. Newsletter figures are unique opens on delivered mail, not sends.

Where a number cannot be measured we say so and give the source of the estimate. Where a partner asks for a figure we do not hold, we say that too rather than supplying a modelled one.

Publication standard

Audience measures are published only when the sample clears the stated confidence threshold. Small bases are suppressed, weighted estimates are identified, and comparisons use the same twelve-month reporting window.

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Partnerships

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Bring us a segment, a region or a job title and we will tell you what we can and cannot reach — before you commit a budget to finding out.