Most of the world’s largest news sites saw strong expansion in July, in a banner month for news.
July was marked by an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s announcement that he would not run for re-election to the United States presidency, and the start of the Paris Olympics (see the detailed Olympic news internet traffic policy here).
The world’s most rapidly developing English-language news Internet sites were primarily founded in the United States; Newsweek, ABC News and AP News developed more than one hundred percent year after year. Our Top 50 were founded in the United States, with the exception of NDTV. com, which was founded in India.
Seven of the top ten English-language news sites in the world have seen year-over-year growth, with CNN and Fox News up more than 20%.
The world’s largest news site is still the BBC, with 1. 2 billion visits per month (although it should be noted that this includes the entire domain of the BBC’s online page, not just the segment information).
Month over month, ABC News in the United States has been the fastest growing news in the world, up 79%, while UK-based Sky News is the third fastest growing in the world, with an increase of 47%.
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Among the world’s top ten news sites, the BBC grew the fastest in May, according to Press Gazette’s updated ranking.
Visits to the United Kingdom’s top broadcaster rose 9% in May compared with April to 1. 1 billion. Although Similarweb’s knowledge also includes traffic to BBC entertainment and other content, the site has a significant news offering.
It was followed by Fox News (292 million, an 8% increase), The New York Times (685. 5 million, a 4% increase) and Google News (383. 2 million, a 3% increase), according to virtual intelligence platform Similarweb.
None of the top ten sites recorded a smaller audience in May than in April, even though the audiences of the Daily Mail (364. 9 million) and the India Times (287. 9 million) were virtually unchanged from last month.
Year after year, among the ten most sensible news sites by number of visits, India Times is once again the fastest growing (67% more than in May 2023). It was followed by the New York Times (up 19%), Yahoo Finance (248. 2 million, up 10%), The Guardian (368. 2 million, up 5%) and the BBC (up 4%). %).
Among the 50 most sensible overall, AP saw the most powerful growth with visits to the news service up 20% month-over-month to 115 million. British news brands Sky News (77. 2 million views, up 14% month-on-month) and Express (92. 6 million, up 11%) also feature in the list of the fastest-growing ones.
Year after year, Newsweek is the fastest-growing site of the top 50 sites in a list largely dominated by Indian news brands. Visits to newsweek. com increased by 170% compared to last May to reach 107. 4 million. Al Jazeera (63. 9 million, up 55%), AP News (up 48%) and People (205. 2 million, up 39%) were also on the list.
The BBC once again occupied the most sensible position on the list of visits. Then come MSN (686 million), the New York Times, CNN and Google News. The order of the five most sensible has not changed from last month. The Guardian, in sixth place, is the highest-ranked United Kingdom news logo after the BBC.
India Times was the fastest growing news site in the world in April, according to Press Gazette’s updated rankings.
Visits to the virtual giant’s online page increased 87% year-on-year to 287. 6 million as the world’s most populous country holds elections. It was followed by Yahoo Finance (243. 9 million, up 20%), the New York Times (657 million, up 15%) and The Guardian (366. 5 million, up 10%).
In contrast, the rest of the top ten news brands saw no year-over-year traffic growth. Fox News saw the biggest drop, with traffic falling to 269. 3 million, down 14% in April, while the BBC saw a slight 5% year-on-year decline to 1 billion views, according to data from the intelligence platform virtual Similarweb.
Month-to-month, among the ten most sensible news sites in terms of number of visits, the picture is more positive: six of them recorded more traffic in April than in March. Topping the list is the India Times (up 8% month-on-month), followed by The Guardian (up 5%), CNN (558. 2 million views, up 3%) and the BBC (up 2%). Traffic for the rest of the ten most sensitive countries remained stable, expanding or shrinking by less than 1% through March.
Among the 50 most sensible, five of the fastest-growing new sites year-over-year were from India, with money news site Livemint recording the largest increase in visits compared to April 2023 (a 139% increase to 83. 7 million). Newsweek maintained its strong expansion and was the second-fastest-growing site, after Livemint, with a 132% increase to 103. 4 million views. This also reflects the strong presence of the American news magazine in our ranking of the 50 most productive in the United States.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera also had a strong month with views up 67% year-on-year to 70. 8 million. The continued interest in the war in Gaza is likely the strong functionality of the Qatari brand in April.
Among the 50 most sensible, many of the names that performed well year-over-year also performed well in terms of monthly growth. Indian Express topped the list with a 36% increase to 156. 8 million since March, while Al Jazeera (up 28%) and CBS News (95. 4 million, up 24%) also had a smart April.
The BBC again endorsed the scale in the rankings. Its monthly expansion allowed it to surpass the threshold of one billion stopovers in April, where it had remained for the last two months. It is followed by MSN (678. 8 million), the New York Times, CNN and Google News (370. 9 million). The order of the five most sensible has not changed from last month. The Guardian fell just below the most sensible fifth to sixth place. It is the highest-ranking British news logo after the BBC.
Newsweek was the fastest-growing news site globally in March, according to updated ratings from Press Gazette.
The news magazine saw more than double the number of visits in March, a 128% year-on-year increase to 104. 1 million, according to data from virtual intelligence platform Similarweb.
Newsweek has seen strong expansion recently and is also the fastest-growing site in Press Gazette’s recent ranking of the 50 most responsive news sites in the United States. The news logo recently named a new editor in chief, Jennifer H. Cunningham, formerly of Business Insider, who told Press Gazette that her goal is to expand Newsweek’s audience and “improve and grow the journalism. “
Newsweek followed across three Indian news brands, in the run-up to the country’s national elections between April and June: monetary news specialist Livemint (82. 4 million views, up 100 percent year-on-year), India Times (265. 4 million, plus 60%). and the Hindustan Times (170 million, a 45% increase).
Similarly, month-over-month, India. com (65. 9 million visits, a 44% increase) topped the table in terms of growth.
Two UK news brands were also on the fastest growing sites, month after month. Visits to Reach tabloid Express. co. uk rose 17% from February to 76. 8 million, while visits to The Independent rose 12% to 109. 5 million. .
Of the ten most sensible sites in terms of number of visits in March, the one that is developing the fastest year after year is the India Times. It is followed by the New York Times (666 million visits, up 11%) and Yahoo Finance (245. 9 million, up 5%).
The rest of the ten most sensitive sites fell year over year, with Fox News seeing the biggest decline (269. 4 million visitors, down 18%), followed by aggregator MSN (676 million, down 11%).
However, the top ten most sensible sites saw monthly growth. The largest increase in visits was recorded through the India Times, followed by the New York Times (up 10% month-over-month) and CNN (539. 9 million, up 9%). British news brands The Daily Mail (369. 3 million, up 8% from February) and The Guardian (349. 7 million, up 7%) also saw their views grow by more than 5%.
The BBC is once again in the highest ranking of visits (992. 4 million) and remains below one billion views for the second consecutive month. It is followed by MSN, the New York Times, CNN and Google News (375. 6 million). The order of the five most sensible has not changed from last month.
The India Times was the tenth fastest-growing news site globally in February, according to the Press Gazette’s updated rankings.
Visits to the Indian newspaper rose 48% year-on-year to 234. 5 million, likely due to increased interest in the country’s news ahead of India’s upcoming general elections in April.
They are followed by Yahoo Finance (241. 4 million visits, an increase of 18% year-over-year) and the New York Times (606. 7 million visits, an increase of 10%), which are the second and third fastest growing among the ten most sensible places. through visits, according to the knowledge of the virtual intelligence platform Similarweb.
The Guardian made a smaller gain of 2% (327. 4 million views) and the rest of the ten most sensible reported declines until February last year.
News aggregator Microsoft MSN (642. 2 million views, down 14% year-over-year) and Fox News (262. 9 million, down 16%) were the top two sites with double-digit declines.
Month-over-month, the top ten India Times sites (up 3%) saw less traffic in February than in January. Fox News (down 16%) and the Daily Mail’s online page (343. 6 million visits, down 10% month-over-month) saw the biggest drops.
Yahoo Finance (down 1% month over month) and The New York Times (down 5%) also fell since January despite year-over-year growth.
Among the top 50 countries, the fastest year-on-year expansion can be traced back to Newsweek (79. 5 million views, an increase of 114%), which also saw strong expansion in its home market, the United States, this month. Newsweek continued through the Indian currency. news logo Livemint (71. 8 million, up 90%) and Al Jazeera (53. 4 million, up 55%), reiterating the order of the fastest-growing sites year-over-year in January.
On a month-on-month basis, Newsweek (7% compared to January) outperforms another Indian site, Indian Express (96. 8 million, up 9% month-on-month). It is followed by GB News (55. 2 million, a 4% increase), which entered the group of the world’s 50 most sensible for the first time last month.
The BBC is once again in the most sensible ranking of visits (963. 4 million), although it has fallen below the one billion views it has exceeded in recent months. It is followed by MSN (642. 2 million), the New York Times. (606. 7 million), CNN (497. 7 million) and Google News (360. 9 million). The order of the five most sensible has not changed from last month.
Similarweb generates its traffic knowledge by applying device modeling and learning to the statistically representative knowledge sets that the company collects. The datasets are based on direct measurements (i. e. , websites and apps that choose to share their own analytics with Similarweb); contributory networks that aggregate device knowledge; associations and extraction of public knowledge from Internet sites and applications. The sites on the list are based on Similarweb’s ranking of news and media publishers; The Press Gazette refines the list to exclude some less news-focused sites.
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In January, CNN was one of the 10 fastest-growing news sites in the world, month after month, according to the Press Gazette’s updated rankings.
Visits to the U. S. cable broadcaster’s site rose 7% to 537. 2 million compared to December, according to data from virtual intelligence platform Similarweb. This reverses last month’s trend for CNN, which was the only site among the top ten most sensible in December to see its views decline, falling 2% between November and December.
Among the top ten videos in the world, The Guardian is the fastest growing (360. 9 million, a month-on-month increase of 7%), while the aggregator Microsoft MSN (699. 6 million, an increase of 5%) occupies the third place. The maximum sensitive tens experienced inter-monthly growth.
Year-over-year, the top ten most sensible sites saw their audience decline, however, The Guardian, The New York Times (636. 3 million visits), and Yahoo Finance all saw small visitor drops of less than 1% compared to January 2023. . MSN recorded the largest drop in viewership. Traffic fell for the third consecutive month (-23% year-on-year), followed by Fox News (294. 8 million views) and CNN, which fell 16% year-on-year.
Among the Top 50 as a whole, Newsweek continued to see the fastest year-over-year expansion (74. 1 million views, an increase of 83%), its traffic was lower than in December. Newsweek was followed by Indian money news logo Livemint (77 million, up 76%) and Al Jazeera (57. 8 million, up 56%).
UK-based monthly news aggregator newsnow. co. uk led the expansion with a 40% increase in visits since December (58. 4 million visits). It is followed by GB News (53 million, an increase of 21%), which enters the top 50. for the first time in position 50, and Business Insider (107. 7 million, an increase of 21%).
The BBC remains the most sensible in terms of visits and is the only one to exceed the threshold of one billion visits as in recent months (1,100 million visits), followed by MSN, the New York Times, CNN and Google News (393. 4 million). The order of the five most sensible has not changed from last month.
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