Media Companies Using Squarespace in the UK: 366 Active Firms (2026)

Updated June 2026

Media publishers produce digital content, with UK adopters running template-based website and commerce tools for publishing and audience growth.

Editorial, audience-development and commercial teams are the main buying centres here, rather than central IT. For media and publishing businesses, adopting a template-based site builder usually points to a lean digital operation that wants control over landing pages, editorial hubs, newsletters, shopfronts or paid-access experiments without commissioning a fully bespoke build. Engagements tend to be modest in scope: subscription fees, theme work, analytics setup, payment configuration and occasional agency support. The pattern fits publishers with a direct audience, some recurring turnover and enough commercial activity to care about merchandising, events, advertising inventory or reader conversion.

Across the UK, 366 companies running the platform are actively trading in media and publishing. Reported headcount totals 1,089, giving the adoption picture a visible small-employer skew rather than a purely hobbyist one. Within detected CMS use across the sector, the platform sits second at 10.2% on a denominator of 3,600, behind the first-ranked CMS category at 67.3% and ahead of the third-ranked category at 8.5%. London accounts for 47.8% of the cohort, followed by the South East at 13.1%, South West at 8.7%, East of England at 5.7% and North West at 4.9%.

For publishers using a self-serve site builder, the operational questions sit less in software licensing and more in audience-data handling. Cookie consent, newsletter sign-ups, paid access, reader accounts and ad tags all create points where marketing, editorial and finance teams need clear ownership. Commerce and event features add the usual checks around refunds, fulfilment, tax treatment and payment-provider contracts. Procurement can therefore look deceptively simple: the monthly platform subscription may be small, while the compliance work sits in policies, consent records, accessibility review and the way third-party scripts are added to public pages.

Adoption appears likely to remain concentrated among publishers that value speed of publishing and low administrative overhead more than deeply customised workflow. The platform tends to suit direct-audience operations while the site is still close to the editorial and commercial team, rather than a dedicated product function. As paid access, advertising operations and audience databases become more entangled, some scaled publishers may migrate towards bespoke CMS and commerce stacks. Smaller operators may instead stay put, using agency help to stretch the same stack further.

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Companies House no.

Incorporation year

Turnover (£)

Employees

Headcount growth (YoY)

Financial-health score

Sales-readiness score

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Adoption by company size

Adoption of Squarespace rises with company size across the trading UK media companies in this cohort. 0.3% of the 91,499 companies with under 10 employees run Squarespace (311 detected). 4.4% of the 1,410 companies with 10–50 employees run Squarespace (62 detected). 2.5% of the 121 companies with over 50 employees run Squarespace (3 detected). That is a 2.2% gap between the over 50 employees and under 10 employees bands.

366

Active firms

2026

10.2%

Of detected CMS share

UK media

Median headcount

Filed accounts

750

Verified contacts

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