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Welcome to Leeds Today
Business news for the Leeds city region
About the Platform
Leeds Today is a daily business news platform dedicated to the people, partnerships, and progress driving the Leeds economy.
We exist to help the Leeds business community understand what’s happening in the city, why it matters, and who it affects. We report on investments, acquisitions, developments, appointments, and the projects and policies shaping one of the UK’s most exciting business economies.
Leeds Today is a trusted filter for news that matters to Leeds businesses, written by people who understand the city.
Growing faster than we expected
Leeds Today launched with no existing database, no audience, and no network. Every reader we have found us because of the quality and relevance of what we publish.
In 14 weeks that approach has delivered:
We rank on page one of Google for Leeds Business News alongside the Yorkshire Evening Post, TheBusinessDesk, Growth Yorkshire and Leeds BID after just fifteen weeks, with zero paid promotion.
We are also appearing in Google search results for high-value commercial terms including venture capital Leeds, private equity Leeds, leeds investment, business networking events Leeds, and networking events Leeds. These are the search terms used by investors, founders seeking capital, and senior business professionals, exactly the audience Leeds Today is built for.
Our organic search engagement rate is 60%, meaning people finding Leeds Today through Google are genuinely reading what they find. Average engagement time for UK readers is 52 seconds. Our audience is growing every week with our organic search traffic accelerating month on month.
Who reads Leeds Today
Leeds Today is read by the people who run, invest in, and build Leeds.
Our audience includes:
- – Business owners and founders across every sector
- – Senior corporate professionals and decision-makers
- – Property developers, investors, and built environment professionals
- – Professional services leaders across legal, financial, and advisory sectors
- – Public sector and policy stakeholders
- – Entrepreneurs, scale-ups, and growth businesses
Our UK engagement rate is 49%. These are not accidental visitors. They are informed professionals seeking Leeds business news.
The search terms bringing people to Leeds Today tell their own story. Our readers are actively searching for venture capital in Leeds, private equity opportunities, investment news, and business networking events, signals of a commercially active, high-intent audience.
Stories we cover
If it’s shaping the Leeds economy, we’re covering it.
Leeds Today reports across eight core areas:
- Business & Economy — company growth, investments, acquisitions, expansions
- Property & Development — planning approvals, regeneration, commercial and residential development
- Funding & Deals — grants, funding rounds, public investment, private capital
- Innovation & Tech — digital, AI, health tech, fintech, and research-led growth
- Policy & Infrastructure — devolution, transport, skills, and economic strategy
- Retail & Hospitality — Leeds city centre, venues, and the visitor economy
- Events & Networking — the Leeds business calendar
- Insights — expert analysis and commentary from Leeds business voices
We publish three articles every weekday. Every piece is editorially reviewed for accuracy, relevance, and clarity before publication.
Work with Leeds Today
Leeds Today offers businesses a direct route to an informed, engaged, and growing audience of Leeds professionals.
Submit your news
If your business has a story worth telling — a funding round, expansion, appointment, launch, or development — submit it for editorial consideration. We cover the full breadth of Leeds business activity and we’re always looking for strong local stories.
Submit news: news@leeds.today
Founding Partners
A small number of category-exclusive founding partnerships are available for businesses that want to be associated with Leeds Today from the ground up.
Founding partners receive prominent placement across the platform, inclusion in the Wednesday briefing, access to Leeds Today events, and a dedicated news feed for their business. This is an opportunity to be part of Leeds Today’s story from the beginning.
For founding partnership enquiries contact news@leeds.today
Contribute
Leeds Today publishes insight pieces from Leeds business experts. If you have genuine expertise and a perspective the Leeds business community would benefit from, we want to hear from you.
Contact news@leeds.today
Alistaire MacGregor
Editor - Founder
About the Editor
Leeds Today is founded and edited by Alistaire MacGregor, a brand strategist and media professional with extensive experience building consumer brands in the outdoor industry.
As co-owner of an outdoor brand portfolio, Alistaire was responsible for the consumer-facing identity and marketing of multiple brands across international territories. He built networks of journalists, influencers, athletes, and partner brands to drive growth, developing a deep understanding of how to tell stories that connect with audiences and deliver commercial results.
Having grown up around Leeds, Alistaire returned to the city five years ago and has watched it evolve at pace. The scale of investment, development, and innovation happening across the city convinced him that Leeds deserved its own dedicated business news platform — one that could cut through the noise and give the local business community clear, useful, and trustworthy reporting.
He launched Leeds Today in March 2026 with that goal in mind. Every article published on the platform is editorially reviewed to ensure accuracy, relevance, and clarity before publication.
Connect with Alistaire on LinkedIn.
Contact Us.
For press releases, story tips, partnership enquiries, sponsorship, or general feedback:
Email: news@leeds.today
- Submit a news story — leeds.today/submit-news
- Partnership enquiries — news@leeds.today
- LinkedIn — linkedin.com/company/leeds-today
Leeds Today — championing the Leeds business community.
Championing the people, partnerships, and progress driving Leeds business.