Launched on 16 August 2006,[1] Dato was Berlingske's offering in the "newspaper war" initiated by Dagsbrún's Nyhedsavisen.
dato was, however, the first of the recent free dailies delivered to people's homes to begin publishing.
It was distributed in Metropolitan Copenhagen and the suburbs of Århus.
[2] Dato closed on 19 April 2007[1][3] and merged with another Danish free daily newspaper, Urban, also owned by Det Berlingske Officin.
Det Berlingske Officin paid over 250 million DKK to publish the newspaper.