Many of the world’s largest news sites saw strong expansion in July, which was 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 reelection to the US presidency, and the start of the Paris Olympics (see news Internet traffic policy (detailed here).
The world’s fastest-developing English-language news websites were founded primarily in the United States; Newsweek, ABC News, and AP News developed more than 100 percent year-over-year. Our 50 most sensible were founded in United States, with the exception of NDTV. com, which was founded in India.
Seven of the world’s top ten most sensible English-language news sites have noted year-over-year growth, with CNN and Fox News increasing by more than 20%.
The world’s largest news site remains 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 segment information).
Month over month, ABC News in the United States is the fastest-growing news network in the world, at 79%, while United Kingdom-based Sky News is the third fastest-growing in the world, at 47% more.
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Among the world’s top ten news sites, the BBC was the fastest growing in May, according to the Press Gazette’s updated ranking.
Visits to the United Kingdom’s flagship broadcaster rose 9% in May compared to April to 1. 1 billion. Although Similarweb’s knowledge also includes traffic to BBC entertainment and other content, the site has a significant data offering.
It was followed by Fox News (292 million, up 8%), The New York Times (685. 5 million, up 4%) and Google News (383. 2 million, up 3%), according to the platform. Similarweb virtual intelligence.
None of the top ten most sensible sites recorded a lower audience in May than in April, even as the Daily Mail (364. 9 million) and India Times (287. 9 million) audiences were largely unchanged from last month.
Year after year, among the top ten most sensible news sites by number of visits, India Times is again the fastest-growing (up 67% from 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, AP saw the most powerful expansion with visits to the news service up 20% month-over-month to 115 million. United Kingdom news brands Sky News (77. 2 million views, up 14% month-on-month) and Express (92. 6 million, up 11%) are also on the fastest-growing list.
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 is once again in the most sensible ranking of visits. They are followed by MSN (686 million), the New York Times, CNN and Google News. The order of the five most sensible remains unchanged from last month. The Guardian, in sixth place, is the highest-ranked British 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 are up 87% year-on-year to 287. 6 million as the world’s most populous country nears elections. It was followed by Yahoo Finance ($243. 9 million, up 20 percent), The New York Times ($657 million, up 15 percent) and The Guardian ($366. 5 million, up 10 percent).
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 overall, five of the fastest-growing new sites year-over-year were from India, with money news site Livemint posting 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 in visits to 103. 4 million. 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 smart month with visits 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 recorded 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 noticed strong expansion recently and is also the fastest-growing site in Press Gazette’s recent ranking of the 50 most sensitive 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 the Press Gazette that his project is to expand Newsweek’s audience and “improve and increase journalism. “
Newsweek followed through three Indian news brands, on the eve of the national elections that will take place in the country between April and June: the monetary data specialist Livemint (82. 4 million visits, up 100% year-on-year), India Times (265. 4 million, up 60%). and the Hindustan Times (170 million, a 45% increase).
Similarly, month on month, India. com (65. 9 million visits, up 44%) tops the charts in terms of growth.
Two British news brands also appeared on the fastest growing sites month after month. Visits to Reach’s tabloid website Express. co. uk rose 17% from February to 76. 8 million, while visits to The Independent rose 12% to 109. 5 million.
Among the ten sites with the highest number of visits in March, India Times is the fastest growing year over year. It was followed by The New York Times (666 million views, an increase of 11%) and Yahoo Finance (245. 9 million, an increase of 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 most sensible ranking of visits (992. 4 million), but remains below one billion 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 remains unchanged from last month.
India Times was one of the 10 fastest-growing news sites globally in February, according to the Press Gazette’s updated rankings.
Visits to the Indian newspaper increased 48% year-on-year to 234. 5 million, likely due to increased interest in the country’s news, given 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 minor gain of 2% (327. 4 million views) and the rest of the top ten reported declines through February last year.
News aggregator Microsoft MSN (642. 2 million visits, down 14% year over year) and Fox News (262. 9 million, down 16%) were the first two sites with double-digit declines.
Month on month, the ten most sensible sites, India Times (up 3%), recorded less traffic in February than in January. Fox News (up 16%) and the Daily Mail’s online page (343. 6 million visits). down 10% month after month) recorded the biggest drops.
Yahoo Finance (down 1% month-over-month) and The New York Times (down 5%) also fell from January despite year-over-year growth.
Among the top 50, the fastest-growing year-over-year is Newsweek (79. 5 million visits, up 114%), which also saw strong expansion in its home market, the United States, this month. Newsweek followed India’s currency news logo, Livemint (71. 8 million, up 90%) and Al Jazeera (53. 4 million, up 55%), reiterating the order of the fastest-developing sites year-over-year in January.
Month over month, Newsweek (+7% compared to January) outperformed another Indian site, Indian Express (96. 8 million, +9% month over month). Next is GB News (55. 2 million, up 4%), which entered the world’s 50 most sensitive 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 data by applying modeling and machine learning to the statistically representative data sets the company collects. Knowledge sets are based on direct metrics (i. e. websites and apps choosing to share first-party 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, Press Gazette narrows the list to exclude some less news-focused sites.
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In January, CNN was the 10th fastest-growing news site in the world, month over month, according to Press Gazette’s updated rankings.
Visits to the U. S. cable broadcaster’s online page increased by 7% since December, to 537. 2 million, according to data from the virtual intelligence platform Similarweb. This reverses last month’s trend for CNN, which was the only site in the top ten most sensible in December that saw its views decline. , falling by 2% between November and December.
Of the ten most sensible videos worldwide, The Guardian is the fastest-growing (360. 9 million, up 7% month-on-month), while Microsoft’s aggregator MSN (699. 6 million, up 5%) comes in third. s saw monthly growth.
Year-over-year, the top ten most sensible sites saw audience drops, but The Guardian, New York Times (636. 3 million visits), and Yahoo Finance saw small drops in visits of less than 1% compared to January 2023. MSN recorded the largest decline in viewership. Traffic falls for the third consecutive month (-23% year-on-year), followed by Fox News (294. 8 million visits) and CNN which are down 16% year-on-year.
Newsweek continued to enjoy the fastest year-over-year growth among the top 50 (74. 1 million visits, an 83% increase), its traffic was lower than in December. Newsweek was followed by Indian currency news 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 compared to December (58. 4 million visits). They are followed by GB News (53 million, an increase of 21%), which enters the 50 most sensitive 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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