None

Financial penalty

Monetary penalty, no fine

14 December 2022

Date on the register

PECR 2003

Law relied on

PECR regulation 22

Marketing

Sector

28 actions on the register

In one line

The ICO issued Monetise Media Limited with a monetary penalty on 14 December 2022 under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. No financial penalty attaches to it.

01The record

Organisation named: Monetise Media Limited
Action: Monetary penalty
Date published: 14 December 2022
Register year: 2022
Law relied on: PECR 2003
Provisions cited: PECR regulation 22
Penalty: Not stated in the published entry
Sector on the register: Marketing
ICO register reference: 17225
Register status: Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
Notice documents: 1 PDF published by the ICO
Sector share of register: 28 of 216 actions (13%)
Actions published that year: 32
Actions under this law: 87
Position on the register: 32nd of 216, oldest first
Published the same day: This entry alone
Calls or messages recorded: 3,506,157

02What happened, and where it sits

Monetise Media Limited received an ICO monetary penalty on 14 December 2022. The Commissioner acted under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, citing PECR regulation 22. A fine. The ICO issues a monetary penalty notice setting out the contravention and the sum payable. PECR is a separate instrument from the UK GDPR, so this is an ICO penalty under the marketing rules and not a GDPR fine.

The register entry for this penalty does not state the sum, and no single unambiguous figure could be read from the published notice, so no amount is shown here. The linked notice is the authority for the amount.

The notice puts numbers on the contravention: 3,506,157 marketing calls or messages. Those figures are the ICO's, taken from the published notice for this action.

Monetise Media Limited is filed under Marketing, which accounts for 28 of the 216 actions on the register (13%). In 2022 the ICO published 32 enforcement actions in total, 1 of them monetary penalties. 87 actions on the register name PECR 2003.

Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 32nd of 216 actions on the register and the 1st of 28 in Marketing. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 626 KB in total: "Monetise-Media-Limited-mpn". It is the authority for everything on this page.

03The ICO's own account

Between 28 July 2020 and 28 July 2021, Monetise Media Limited (MML) sent 3,506,157 direct marketing emails and text messages without valid consent, contrary to the regulation 22 of PECR.

MML appealed the fine to the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber), which ruled that MML contravened regulation 22 and that the breach was so serious that warranted a fine. However, for the reasons set out on paragraphs 36-59 of the Tribunal's decision , the Tribunal reduced the fine from £125,000 to £85,000. MML has paid the fine.

Quoted from the ICO's published register entry (ico.org.uk), Open Government Licence v3.0.

The law behind this action

PECR 2003

PECR governs electronic marketing, cookies and communications-service security. It is a separate instrument from the UK GDPR: an action taken under PECR is not a GDPR fine, and the register pages here never describe it as one.

All 87 register actions under PECR 2003

What a monetary penalty does

A fine. The ICO issues a monetary penalty notice setting out the contravention and the sum payable.

Published notice

PDFMonetise-Media-Limited-mpn(626 KB)

04Nearest entries on the register

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Join the Triboo Limited	14 Apr 2023	Enforcement notice	PECR 2003	-	Marketing
Outsource Strategies Ltd	20 Oct 2023	Enforcement notice	PECR 2003	-	Marketing
Complete Marketing Services Ltd	9 Nov 2023	Enforcement notice	PECR 2003	-	Marketing

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Provenance and independence

Source: ICO enforcement register (ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/), as published on 4 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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The ICO's register held 222 entries on that date. 6 of them are prosecutions of named individuals, with ages and home towns in the ICO's own summary. This tracker indexes organisations, so those 6 are excluded and every count on these pages is out of 216. They remain on the ICO's own register.

An entry says what the Commissioner did on the date shown. It is not a statement about the organisation today, and the ICO can amend or remove a register entry at any time. Amounts and provisions are as published by the ICO; where the published notice does not state a figure or name a provision, these pages say so rather than filling the gap. This entry was read from the register page at https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/2022/12/monetise-media-limited-mpn/.