Ayrshire Daily News

Be the talkof Ayrshire.

One platform. 146,000 locals. Every single day.

146K
monthly locals
#1
in Ayrshire
24/7
always live
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Reach at a glance

A local audience at national-scale volume.

Live figures pulled from our own Facebook and website analytics. Updated 30 June 2026 — no guesswork, no vanity metrics.

This year
0.0M
Facebook content views

The number of times our content was played or displayed — videos, posts, stories and ads.

75,995,840 lifetime · 76.0M this year
Followers
0
+10.3K in H1 2026
02
0
Content interactions

Likes, reactions, saves, comments, shares and replies across posts, stories, reels and ads.

03
0.0M
Page visits

How often our Page or profile was searched for and then visited.

04
1063d 19h
Watch time

Total time our reels were played, including replays.

SourceFacebook & ayrshiredailynews.co.uk audience metrics.
As of 30 · 06 · 2026
In good company

Trusted by businesses across Ayrshire & beyond

Park HotelRyanair logoSC DesignsSimpsinnsSole Works PodiatryChilos logoBlack Sheep Coffee logoEpic Competitions logoJamie Shearer Roofing logoGB SoundzEHP Theatre logoAyr Central logoPark HotelRyanair logoSC DesignsSimpsinnsSole Works PodiatryChilos logoBlack Sheep Coffee logoEpic Competitions logoJamie Shearer Roofing logoGB SoundzEHP Theatre logoAyr Central logo
Who we are

Trusted local news,
since 5 January 2014.

Ayrshire Daily News was founded on 5 January 2014 and has been the most trusted place for local news ever since.

We're the fastest growing, largest independent news platform on the west coast of Scotland.

We aim for quality content, not quantity. The figures speak for themselves.

Est. 2014
0
Years serving Ayrshire
#1
Independent on the west coast
100%
Locally owned & run
Audience breakdown

Know exactly who you'll be talking to.

Our core audience is women aged 35–54 — local, engaged, and ready to act on what they see.

Overall gender split
AUDIENCE0.0%Women
Women 0.0%
Men 0.0%
Age × gender
WomenMen
18–24
2.8%
1.8%
25–34
10.5%
7%
35–44
14.9%
8.1%
45–54
13.3%
6.7%
55–64
12.2%
6%
65+
11.1%
5.6%
Pull-out insight

"Our core audience is women aged 35–54 — local, engaged, and ready to act on what they see."

What we can do for you

Four products.
One captive audience.

Every format is built around how Ayrshire actually consumes news — the site they visit, the morning post they open, the stories they finish, the competitions they share.

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Website Advertising
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Website Advertising

Own the page every local is already on.

Premium banner and in-article placements across ayrshiredailynews.co.uk — homepage, category pages, articles and the weather page. Seen by every visitor, every session.

76M+
yearly views
5
placement zones
100%
share of voice option
  • Homepage leaderboard & sidebar
  • In-article MPU across every story
  • Category & weather page banners
  • Monthly performance report
Get a quote for Website Advertising
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Ayrshire Daily News
17h ·

It's Tuesday, Ayrshire! Here's what's ahead.

A showery, mild day with light rain on and off and a bit of a breeze. Wind eases later, cloud sticks around into tonight.

High: 17°C / Low: 13°C

Day: light rain, 60% chance. Winds 14 mph.

Evening: light rain, feeling 13°C.

Sunset: 22:03

Brought to you daily in association with Discount Carpets & Beds, Ayr.

Weather Forecast Sponsorship
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Weather Forecast Sponsorship

Wake Ayrshire up with your brand.

Sponsor our daily Facebook morning forecast — the post locals check with their coffee. Your branded graphic runs every single morning, the day's forecast sits in the post copy, and an auto-comment drops your Facebook page or website link straight into the thread.

50K
weekly reach
7
posts a week
AM
peak attention
  • Custom-designed graphic with your logo lockup
  • Full day's forecast written into the post copy
  • Auto-comment with a link to your Facebook or website
  • Exclusive category sponsorship — no competitors
  • Weekly reach & engagement snapshot
Get a quote for Weather Forecast Sponsorship
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Ayrshire Daily News
12 February ·
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Advertorial

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Business Advertorials

A proper news story about your business — everywhere at once.

Our editorial team writes a full-length feature about your business in the newsroom's own voice, publishes it on ayrshiredailynews.co.uk, and rolls it out as an Advertorial post on our Facebook page. Locals read it in the feed, click through to the full article, and it stays indexed on Google forever.

2-in-1
social + website
4–6 min
avg. read time
SEO
evergreen backlink
  • Full interview & story written by our editorial team
  • Published as a news article on ayrshiredailynews.co.uk
  • Advertorial post on our Facebook page (photo collage + intro)
  • Do-follow backlink to your website for SEO
  • Stays live and searchable — earned attention, not a burnt ad
Get a quote for Business Advertorials
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Ayrshire Daily News
23 June at 17:47 ·
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Competitions & Giveaways
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Competitions & Giveaways

Ayrshire in your comments, tagging their pals.

We build the graphic, write the post, run it on our Facebook page, then hand you a mountain of tagged, engaged locals — like the £100 TK Maxx gift card giveaway we ran for Ayr Central: 1K reactions, nearly 1,000 comments, another 1K shares.

1K+
shares per post
900+
tagged comments
48h
campaign window
  • Custom-designed competition graphic featuring your brand
  • Post copy written for maximum tagging & sharing
  • Runs on our Ayrshire Daily News Facebook page
  • Winner drawn, announced and prize coordinated
  • Full engagement breakdown after the draw
Get a quote for Competitions & Giveaways
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ADN The Podcast.
One sponsor. Every episode.

Every two weeks, we sit down with Ayrshire's local heroes, business owners and public figures — the people shaping the place we all call home. And we're looking for one brand to headline the whole thing.

ADN podcast studio recording with hosts and guest
In the studio
Real conversations. Real Ayrshire.
What the sponsor gets
  • Top-billed sponsor
    Named at the start, middle and end of every episode — your brand woven into the show.
  • Every social post
    Featured across all podcast marketing — Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube.
  • Fortnightly reach
    A new episode every two weeks with Ayrshire's most talked-about faces.
  • One sponsor only
    Exclusive slot. No competing brands. Just you, in the ears of Ayrshire.
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One founding sponsor slot.
Sponsor the podcast
Every channel has its moment

Radio fades.
Print folds.
We refresh.

We know the buzz. Your ad on the radio. Your name in the paper. It's a lovely feeling — for you. Your customer, though? They're already scrolling Ayrshire Daily News.

  • 01
    Daily reach
    How many locals you're actually in front of.
    RadioA slice of drive-time
    PrintWhoever picks it up
    MagsA monthly readership
    ADN146,000 Ayrshire locals
  • 02
    Freshness
    How quickly your message can move.
    RadioUpdated by the hour
    PrintRefreshed weekly
    MagsRefreshed monthly
    ADNLive, every few minutes
  • 03
    Ad shelf life
    How long your spend keeps working.
    RadioThirty seconds on air
    PrintOne week on the shelf
    MagsOne month on the coffee table
    ADNLive until you say stop
  • 04
    Proof it worked
    What you can show the boss on Monday.
    RadioListener estimates
    PrintCirculation figures
    MagsDistribution figures
    ADNReal numbers, live dashboard
  • 05
    Audience data
    How well you can target the right people.
    RadioBroad demographics
    PrintBroad demographics
    MagsInterest-based
    ADNAge, area & behaviour
  • 06
    Time to publish
    From "go" to live.
    RadioNext ad break
    PrintNext print run
    MagsNext issue
    ADNSame hour
Reach
146,000
locals every month, in one place.
Freshness
Live
your message goes up the same hour.
Proof
Real
numbers, dashboards, screenshots.

Radio, print and magazines still have their moment. For everything else, there's Ayrshire's front page.

Why it works

Over 76 million views.
One local audience
that's actually paying attention.

146K+
Loyal local followers
476K
Yearly content interactions
100% Ayrshire
Independent & locally run
Let's talk

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