FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 17 JUNE 2016

dotdigital Group plc

('dotdigital' or the 'Company')

Liontrust Increases Shareholding to over 12%

dotdigital Group Plc (AIM:DOTD), the leading provider of intuitive Software as a Service and managed services to digital marketing professionals, announces that it has received a TR1 from Liontrust Asset Management ('Liontrust'), a longstanding shareholder, that it has further increased its shareholding in the Company to 35,564,334 Ordinary Shares. This takes Liontrust's current position to just over 12%.

Full disclosure of the TR1 is shown below:

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer
of existing shares to which voting rights are
attached:

DOTDIGITAL GROUP PLC

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

X

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the
notification obligation:

LIONTRUST INVESTMENT PARTNERS LLP

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):

N/A

5. Date of the transaction and date on
which the threshold is crossed or
reached:

16/06/2016

6. Date on which issuer notified:

17/06/2016

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or
reached:

12 %

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of
shares

if possible using
the ISIN CODE

Situation previous
to the triggering
transaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Number
of
Shares

Number
of
Voting
Rights

Number
of shares

Number of voting
rights

% of voting rights

Direct

Direct

Indirect

Direct

Indirect

GB00B3W40C23

35,263,764.00

35,263,764.00

35,564,344.00

35,564,344.00

N/A

12.09 %

N/A

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial
instrument

Expiration
date

Exercise/
Conversion Period

Number of voting
rights that may be
acquired if the
instrument is
exercised/ converted.

% of voting
rights

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial
instrument

Exercise price

Expiration date

Exercise/
Conversion period

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Nominal

Delta

N/A

N/A

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

35,564,344.00

12.09 %

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

N/A

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

N/A

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease
to hold:

N/A

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold
voting rights:

N/A

13. Additional information:

14. Contact name:

Jarek Rys

15. Contact telephone number:

020 7412 1732

For further enquiries please contact:

dotdigital Group PlcMilan Patel, CEO & CFO

Tel: 020 8662 2777

Financial PR and Investor Relations
Lisa Baderoon
Lisa.Baderoon@dotmailer.com

Tel: 07721 413 496

N+1 Singer (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)
Shaun Dobson, Head of Corporate Finance
Liz Yong, Corporate Finance

Tel: 020 7496 3000

finnCap (Joint Broker)
Stuart Andrews, Corporate Finance

Tel: 020 7220 0500

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