[2] In 2015, the distribution of El Ibérico started to grow outside of London to cities such as Leeds, Manchester, Brighton, Dublin and Edinburgh.
[2] In July 2016, El Ibérico was the first news outlet to talk about the Byron Hamburgers' scandal that involved trapping illegal immigrants into a fake job application to feed a government raid on illegal immigration.
[3] Whilst focussing on London's Hispanic community, the newspaper prints stories about both the UK and Spain.
[4] Like most other free newspaper publications in London, it is mainly distributed outside tube stations,[5] mainly around the "ethnic enclaves" of the city.
[6] The newspaper also gets circulation in Spanish restaurants, Spanish-speaking embassies, and regular commercial outlets willing to distribute it.