The Daily Adelaide story

1. Oct 2025Daily Network concept and domain acquisition
2. Dec 2025Daily Canberra launched — first city live
3. Q1 2026First 100 paying subscribers across the network
4. Apr 202619-city network architecture complete
5. Jun 2026Daily briefing 6am AEST rolled out network-wide
6. Today47,000+ network readers and growing

Local news in Australia has hollowed out. Metropolitan dailies retreated to capital-city syndication, community mastheads were folded into national groups, and the result in cities like Adelaide is a persistent gap: residents who want a daily, trustworthy, hyper-local read can't easily find one that respects their time.

Daily Adelaide rebuilds that habit. One short morning briefing, a clean editorial homepage, and depth on the stories that actually shape a city's day — civic, cultural, sport, weather, and what's open.

• • 480+ articles published per city
• • 47,000+ readers across the 19-city network
• • Daily 6am AEST briefing sent to every subscriber
• • 38–45% average newsletter open rate
• • 60+ platform waves shipped in 9 months

A complete local-news platform, not a CMS. The stack covers the full loop:

• • Editorial engine — AI-assisted writing, fact-check, long-form, live blog, gallery, podcast and video formats.
• • Subscriber infrastructure — double opt-in, referral tracking, lead magnets, loyalty, segmentation, transactional email.
• • Revenue stack — display and native advertising, business directory, jobs board, sponsored sections, paid memberships.
• • Network layer — shared backend, city-scoped data, instant launch of a new city under its own brand and domain.

Daily Adelaide is one node in a 19-city Australian network built to be acquired as a whole or licensed per city. The same platform that runs Adelaide can light up Hobart, Darwin, Geelong, Newcastle or 80 more regional markets within a day. For a national publisher, broadcaster, classifieds business, or telco, this is a turnkey local-audience layer with already-built editorial, subscriber and ad infrastructure.

Acquisition and partnership enquiries: shane@spexperts.com.au.