CdM

What is CdM?

CdM is a Montenegrin news portal at cdm.me. On 24 September 2026 its home page carried the name Cafe del Montenegro and that date, and its menu ran from news and crime through sport, world, entertainment and lifestyle to an English section.^[1]

Its impressum names CDM d.o.o. as publisher and founder, at Ulcinjska 7b in Podgorica, with Boris Darmanović as editor-in-chief and director. It states that CDM d.o.o. is wholly owned by Media-Nea D.O.O., which is 99.99 per cent owned by First Financial Holdings, which is wholly owned by Petros Stathis.^[2] That is the portal's own statement, as retrieved on 24 September 2026.

The Media Ownership Monitor Montenegro, in its 2023 profile, states: “The company behind Portal CDM is CDM d.o.o. which is 100% owned by Media Nea d.o.o.” It adds that the portal is “majority owned by the Greek businessman Petros Stathis, through several of his affiliated companies.”^[3] The Monitor's profile of the daily Pobjeda lists Portal CDM among the outlets related to the same owners.^[4]

What does CdM cover?

CdM's sport section, at cdm.me/sport, is divided into football, basketball, handball, tennis, water polo and other sports.^[5]

Its headlines on 23 and 24 September 2026 mixed domestic and international sport. Domestic items included a fine imposed by the football federation: “FSCG kaznio Zetu sa 1500, a Dečić sa 1000 eura”. They also included the national team's next fixture: “Crna Gora u petak dočekuje Kipar na startu Lige nacija”. In basketball the section carried items on the ABA League, including “Mijailović: Neće biti odlaganja ABA lige”. In handball it reported “Vardar prejak za Budvansku rivijeru”.^[5] Other headlines covered international football, chiefly transfers and coaching changes at European clubs.^[5]

That mix is one day's reading. It is given as a description of the section on the build date, not as a measure of emphasis.

How large is CdM's audience?

Montenegro has no audited web audience measurement. A study dated October 2025, prepared with the OSCE Mission's support and published on the AMU's website, states: “Zasada u Crnoj Gori ne postoji usuglašen i industrijski općeprihvaćen jedinstveni sustav mjerenja gledanosti/slušanosti medija.”^[6] The Media Ownership Monitor's CDM profile states: “Audience shares are missing, since there is no credible centralized audience measuring mechanism in the country.”^[3]

Two figures are published, and neither is an audited currency. The Monitor states: “According to SimilarWeb in the period from February to April 2023 the website had 14,67 million visits.” SimilarWeb is a traffic estimator, and the figure covers three months of 2023 for the whole portal.^[3] Radio Televizija Budva reported on 28 December 2025 on an Ipsos survey for the AMU, from 25 October to 11 November on 1,041 respondents. Among readers of digital editions it found Vijesti and CDM followed by “između 60 i 80 odsto tog segmenta publike”.^[7] That is a survey of stated use and gives no separate figure for each portal.

The Monitor's profile also describes CDM as “the second most-read online media in Montenegro”; it gives no measured source for that ranking, and it is carried here as the Monitor's statement.^[3] Its online list gives CDM a trust figure of 11.4 per cent, citing a 2023 survey by the Digital Forensics Center.^[8]

Since when has CdM existed?

No founding or launch date for CdM was found on its own site: neither the home page nor the impressum gives one.^[1][2] The Media Ownership Monitor's profile gives none either; it states that “CDM is one of the oldest portals in Montenegro, which initially started as Cafe del Montenegro Forum and was designed to allow users to discuss various topics.” That is the Monitor's account, and it carries no date.^[3]

The ownership chain can be dated more closely. The Media Ownership Monitor records that its team contacted the outlet on 18 August 2023.^[3] The impressum retrieved on 24 September 2026 gives the same ultimate owner, Petros Stathis, through Media-Nea and First Financial Holdings.^[2]

Why does CdM matter in Montenegro's sport?

CdM matters as a general news portal with a standing sport section. The Ipsos survey reported on 28 December 2025 names it, with Vijesti, as followed by between 60 and 80 per cent of readers of digital editions.^[7] Its sport section carries the national federations' decisions and the domestic clubs' regional competitions alongside international football.^[5]

Its ownership links it to other titles. The Media Ownership Monitor's profile of Pobjeda names Portal CDM among the related outlets of the Media Nea group.^[4] Reporters Without Borders, in its 2026 Index, describes the market in general terms: “As the main advertiser, the state has, in recent decades, distributed most of its funds to the 'loyal' media.”^[9] That is RSF's characterisation of the market, and it does not name CdM.