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Metro (also known as metro.co.uk) is an online newspaper published from the UK by DMG Media, part of Associated Newspapers Ltd.

Metro first appeared in 2002 as the online counterpart of Metro newspaper, the free paper distributed on public transport services in cities across the UK - and, according to monthly NRS figures in 2017, the UK's most-read newspaper. In April 2017 the newspaper had over 1.6 million daily readers.

In 2015, the Metro website became independent of the newspaper: although they belong to the same parent company and are based in the same offices, they are now produced by separate editorial teams. In June 2017 Metro placed 9th in the rankings of UK news websites by daily average unique browsers.

Content
Metro serves a diverse range of world and UK news, sport, showbiz and celebrity stories and videos generally aimed at young urban readers. It has strong coverage of UK football, and of specialised areas like food, sex and mental health issues.

Metro reaches much of its audience through social sharing. In June 2017 it had more than 1.7 million likes on Facebook, and 266,000 followers on Twitter.

Technology
In December 2012 Metro became one of the UK's first responsive newspaper sites, and one of the UK's highest-circulation WordPress sites.

The move to a responsive layout on WordPress saw explosive growth in Metro's readership. In September 2012 the site was attracting 7.4 million monthly unique visitors; by June 2013 this had grown to 9.6 million; by March 2014 Metro was attracting 27 million visitors. In April of that year Metro was the fastest growing UK national newspaper website, with traffic up 150 per cent year on year.

Editors

 * 2010: Martin Ashplant
 * 2014: Deborah Arthurs