Ekstra Bladet

The newspaper began publication 1904{{cite web|author1=Jose L. Alvarez |author2=Carmelo Mazza |author3=Jordi Mur |title=The management publishing industry in Europe |url=http://www.iese.edu/research/pdfs/OP-99-04-E.pdf |work=University of Navarra |access-date=27 April 2015 |format=Occasional Paper No:99/4 |date=October 1999 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100630042406/http://www.iese.edu/research/pdfs/OP-99-04-E.pdf |archive-date=30 June 2010 |df=dmy }}{{cite web|author=Anna B. Holm|title=Discontinuities in Business Model Innovation of the Danish Newspaper Industry|url=http://regconf.hse.ru/uploads/eeb884d6b8e24fb82b5185e2742b340ca35faa2c.pdf|work=Conferenga|access-date=12 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141215034358/http://regconf.hse.ru/uploads/eeb884d6b8e24fb82b5185e2742b340ca35faa2c.pdf|archive-date=15 December 2014|df=dmy-all}} as a supplement to the Politiken newspaper, and a year later, it became a separate newspaper. The headquarters of the paper is in Copenhagen.

In December 2010 {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}} editor-in-chief Poul Madsen threatened to complain to the European Court of Justice after its submission of an application to Apple's App Store was rejected.[http://www.cphpost.dk/business/119-business/50607-apple-clashes-with-tabloid-over-breasts.html Apple clashes with tabloid over breasts ] The Copenhagen Post. Retrieved 8 December 2010. Madsen claimed the application was deemed offensive, and in an editorial described Apple as being an "American nanny".[http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/article1464482.ece Kommentar: Vi har ikke brug for en amerikansk nanny] (in Danish) {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}}. Retrieved 8 December 2010.

Since 5 October 2012 Tipsbladet, an association football magazine, has been sold with the Friday edition of {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}}.{{cite news|title=Ekstra Bladet / Tipsbladet|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/inma-awards-uploads/39E5850F40DF4599A8F35096868A5768.pdf|access-date=29 May 2016|work=INMA|date=2013}}

The current editor-in-chief is Henrik Qvortrup who took over in July 2021.{{cite web|url=https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2021-05-19-henrik-qvortrup-bliver-chefredaktoer-paa-ekstra-bladet|title=Henrik Qvortrup bliver chefredaktør på Ekstra Bladet|language=da|publisher=TV2|date=19 May 2021|access-date=15 January 2022}} Poul Madsen was chief editor from September 2007 through March 2021.{{cite news|url=http://politiken.dk/indland/article375267.ece|title=Hans Engell forlader Ekstra Bladet|language=da|date=6 September 2007|access-date=6 September 2007|work=Politiken}} Hans Engell held the position from 2000 to 2007. Victor Andreasen served as the editor-in-chief of the paper for two times, between 1963 and 1967 and between 1971 and 1976.{{cite web|title=Factsheet Denmark|url=http://dipd.dk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/factsheet_Mass_Media.pdf|work=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark|access-date=9 May 2015|date=January 2007|archive-date=18 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018041659/http://dipd.dk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/factsheet_Mass_Media.pdf|url-status=dead}}

For over 100 years, {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}}s main competitor has been BT published by Berlingske Media.

{{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}}{{'s}} readership and circulation has declined in recent years, and continues to do so.{{cite news|author=Demetrios Matheou|title=The Future of (Tabloid) Newspapers|url=http://www.dfi-film.dk/the-future-of-tabloid-newspapers|access-date=2 January 2015|work=Danish Film Institute|date=10 November 2014}}[http://salg.eb.dk/ekstra-bladet/laesere-og-oplag/ Readers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221013825/http://salg.eb.dk/ekstra-bladet/laesere-og-oplag/ |date=21 February 2014 }} {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}}. Retrieved 22 September 2010. During the last six months of 1957 the paper had a circulation of 68,178 copies on weekdays.{{cite journal|author=Britt-Mari Persson Blegvad|title=Newspapers and Rock and Roll Riots in Copenhagen|journal=Acta Sociologica|date=1964|volume=7|issue=3|pages=151–178 |doi=10.1177/000169936400700302 |jstor=4193580}} The circulation of the paper was 210,000 copies in 1991, 198,000 copies in 1992 and 185,000 copies in 1993. It fell to 177,000 copies in 1994, to 168,000 in 1995 and to 166,000 copies in 1996. Although its circulation grew to 169,000 copies in 1997, it again decreased and was 159,000 copies in 1998 and 148,000 copies in 1999.

It was 134,000 copies in 2000 and 127,000 copies in 2001.{{cite web|title=Culture|url=http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/upload/3149/cult.pdf|work=Danmarks Statistik|access-date=9 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509120926/http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/upload/3149/cult.pdf|archive-date=9 May 2015}} The circulation of the paper fell to 119,000 copies in 2002.{{cite web|title=World Press Trends 2003|url=http://www.wan-press.org/IMG/pdf/2003wpt.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=15 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108215853/http://www.wan-press.org/IMG/pdf/2003wpt.pdf|archive-date=8 November 2017|url-status=dead}} It was the fourth best selling Danish newspaper in 2003 with a circulation of 110,000 copies.{{cite web|title=World Press Trends|url=http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=8 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004}} In 2004, the paper had a circulation of 110,000 copies.{{cite news|title=The Press in Denmark|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4059213.stm|access-date=17 December 2014|work=BBC|date=20 December 2005}} There is another report giving its 2004 circulation as 106,000 copies.{{cite web|title=Media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union|url=http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media_taskforce/doc/pluralism/media_pluralism_swp_en.pdf|work=Commission of the European Communities|access-date=27 March 2015|location=Brussels|date=16 January 2007}} In 2012, the paper had a circulation of 60,000 copies.

In January 2012, the paper's website had an Alexa Internet global rank of #2061 and a rank of #5 in Denmark.{{cite web|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ekstrabladet.dk|title=Statistics Summary for ekstrabladet.dk|access-date=7 Dec 2017|date=7 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107020919/https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ekstrabladet.dk|archive-date=7 January 2012|publisher=Alexa Internet}} {{asof|July 2018|post=,}} the site held ranks of #3359 globally and #9 in Denmark.{{cite web|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ekstrabladet.dk|title=ekstrabladet.dk Traffic Statistics|access-date=22 July 2018|date=23 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713021732/https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ekstrabladet.dk|archive-date=13 July 2018|publisher=Alexa Internet}}

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