Digital Spy to offer more multimedia

Entertainment news website Digital Spy is to get its first major overhaul in four years, following investment from owner Hachette Filipacchi. New look Digital Spy will use images more prominently, increased video content, revamped homepages for each section and better navigation to make for "a cleaner, less cluttered and more structured environment". The refreshed website, which goes live today, is focused on providing more of a multimedia experience and developing individual sections into "destination places in their own right". Publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK, the owner of titles including Red, Elle and Inside Soap, acquired the website in April 2008 . Hachette's investment in Digital Spy follows an increase in monthly unique users from 4m to 7.2m in the past two years and a significant boost in revenues. Digital Spy reported a 150% year-on-year boost in turnover in April. The number of reporters has also doubled, from 20 to 40, in the past two years. Digital Spy was incorporated in 2001 and two of its original six team members, Neil Wilkes and James Welsh, remain at Digital Spy. • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email [email protected] or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. • If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". • This article was amended on 12 May 2010. The original said that Digital Spy was founded by Neil Wilkes and James Welsh in 1999. This has been corrected.