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Time Out to launch new UK websites
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 15 October 2014
Time Out is to launch new websites to serve six other British cities, in addition to London. A Manchester site launches today, while Edinburgh will follow later this month, Leeds and Glasgow in November, while Bristol and Birmingham will have to wait until early next year for their cultural listings.
Each site will have an editor (for Manchester and Leeds it has been announced that this will be freelance marketing man Rob Martin), who will source local content via an also newly launched Time Out blogger network. Local listings will be created in house at each website, while some nationally relevant content will be drawn from the existing London site.
Time Out attempted to launch a local print edition of its magazine in Manchester in 2006, following the demise, as a standalone title, of a local equivalent called City Life. That version of Time Out Manchester, however, was not a success (publishing just one issue). Since then, of course, the flagship Time Out edition in London revamped its print version as a free title, in a bid to face off new competition, both in print and online.
Like City Life in Manchester, some other regional though unaffiliated equivalents to Time Out – including Leeds Guide and Venue magazine in Bristol – have shut down in the last few years as both magazines and especially the regional press have tackled the challenges thrown up by the web. Which has possibly created new opportunities for Time Out to operate in those areas online.
Though in Scotland’s Central Belt you still have both The List and younger freesheet The Skinny, both of which operate online, so there, at least, Time Out is entering a more crowded marketplace.
