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Local World las launched www.quirker.co.uk<\/a> – a new website aimed at a young social audience celebrating the best of real life eccentric content.<\/p>\n

The site takes the weirdest and most wonderful stories already produced across Local World’s network of more than 70 websites in the UK and repurposes them for a new, national, audience.<\/p>\n

It is the first national content website launched by Local World and is part of a broader strategy to innovate for a digital, social audience, the publisher said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quirky stories already published locally are selected by a small national team, based in Local World’s Kensington HQ, and re-edited to target a social audience – then published directly to the site, with links back to the originating article.<\/p>\n

Steve Anglesey, Local World digital content director, said: “Quirker is a terrific home for the most eccentric, funny, Man-Bites-Dog, weird and real life stories we produce as a group every day. This platform gives us an opportunity to really capitalise on the virality of this content, reworked in style and format for a young, mobile audience.”<\/p>\n

Matt Kelly, Local World group digital director, said: “Quirker is just one strand of our strategy to grow in relevance to a digital audience. There is no more enticing, or commercially exciting, opportunity in digital today than reimagining the power of local content. Watch this space.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Local World las launched www.quirker.co.uk – a new website aimed at a young social audience celebrating the best of real life eccentric content.
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