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Sophie Vokes-dudgeon

Sophie Vokes-dudgeon

Aug 6, 2026

7:22
So it'd be great to... hear about all of those so do you want to just set the scene for us first kind of what your audience mix was like a year or a year and a bit ago before you were hit too hard by the Google changes?
7:37
Yeah sure so I would say it's been a sort of a number of years of big growth for us at Hello so when I've actually been here nearly 10 years in September I can't believe it but when I started It was a tiny team of five people and very much a sort of, we're a magazine and we should have a website rather than this is a website that, you know, a digital offering that's going to make us money and become the future of the business.
8:01
But bit by bit, we grew that and got to a stage where really our audience was very sizable.
8:09
I say that we were punching above our weight in terms of the number of journalists that we have.
8:14
And I know that we We're always delighted to appear on the Press Gazette list of top 20 news brands, you know, alongside the Express and big newspapers with huge newsrooms.
8:24
We only write about royals and celebrity and lifestyle.
8:27
And we've got at the most, I think we had 30 writers.

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14:31
So to be clear, what sort of platforms are you including in that?

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