The Daily Mail is a national daily tabloid newspaper that has historical, social, cultural and political significance. The Daily Mail, launched in 1896 offers many opportunities for studying the relationship between ownership patterns, economic factors and political viewpoints.

The paper is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust.^[6] Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of one of the original co-founders.

A survey in 2014 found the average age of its readers was 58

Daily mail bought the i for 49.4 million in 2019

t had an average daily circulation of 1,134,184 copies in February 2020. Between April 2019 and March 2020 it had an average daily readership of approximately 2.180 million

Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming the news group “generally unreliable”