Many of the world’s largest news sites saw strong expansion in July, which was a banner month for news.
July was marked by the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s announcement of his refusal to run for president of the United States and the start of the Paris Olympic Games (see detailed traffic policy, Olympic news on the Internet here) .
The world’s fastest-developing English-language news Internet sites were founded primarily in the United States, with Newsweek, ABC News, and AP News growing more than 100 percent year-over-year. All of the fastest-developing sites among our 50 most sensible were founded in United States, for 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 biggest news story in the world is still the BBC, with 1. 2 billion monthly visits (although it’s worth noting that this includes the entire BBC website domain, not just the news section).
Month-over-month, ABC News in the United States is the fastest-developing news network in the world, with a 79% increase, while Sky News, founded in the United Kingdom, is the third fastest-growing news network in the world, with a 47% increase.
Read on for the politics of the past few months on the world’s 50 news websites:
Among the world’s top 10 news sites, the BBC grew the fastest in May, according to updated Press Gazette ratings.
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, 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 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% compared to 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 top 50 overall, AP saw the most powerful growth with news service visits increasing 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 on the list of the fastest growing.
Year after year, Newsweek is the fastest growing of the top 50 sites in a list largely dominated by Indian news brands. Visits to newsweek. com increased 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 took the most sensible position on the viewing list. 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 UK 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 their traffic increase year over year. Fox News saw the biggest drop, with traffic falling to 269. 3 million, down 14% in April, while the BBC saw a smaller drop of 5% year-on-year to one billion views, according to platform data. Similarweb virtual intelligence. .
From month to month, among the ten most sensible news sites in terms of number of visits, the picture is more positive: six of them registered more traffic in April than in March. 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%). ten remained stable, expanding or shrinking 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 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 top 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 emails, up 24%) also had a good April.
The BBC is once again at the top of the visit ranking. Its monthly expansion allowed it to surpass the threshold of one billion visits in April, below which it had remained in 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 came in just below the five most sensible in sixth place. It is the highest ranked British news. Logo after the BBC.
Newsweek was the fastest-growing news site in the world in March, according to updated Press Gazette rankings.
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 him 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, 100% more year-on-year), India Times (265. 4 million, 60% more). and the Hindustan Times (170 million, an increase of 45%).
Similarly, month on month, India. com (65. 9 million visits, an increase of 44%) topped the chart in terms of growth.
Two British news brands also appeared on the fastest-growing sites month-over-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.
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 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-on-month) and CNN (539. 9 million, up 9%). British news brands The Daily Mail (369. 3 million, up 8% on February) and The Guardian (349. 7 million, up 7%) also saw their visits 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 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 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 50 most sensible countries, the fastest year-over-year expansion can be traced back to Newsweek (79. 5 million visits, up 114%), which also saw strong expansion in its domestic market, the United States, this month. Newsweek followed through the Indian monetary 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.
Month-over-month, Newsweek (7% compared to January) outperformed another Indian site, Indian Express (96. 8 million, 9% month-on-month). It is followed by GB News (55. 2 million, an increase of 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 datasets that the company collects. Knowledge sets are based on direct metrics (i. e. , websites and apps choosing 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, 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.
Among the top ten videos in the world, The Guardian is the fastest growing (360. 9 million, up 7% month-on-month), while aggregator Microsoft MSN (699. 6 million, up 5%) is in third place. The sensitive maximum tens experienced month-on-month 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.
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%).
United Kingdom-based monthly news aggregator newsnow. co. uk led the expansion with a 40% increase in visits compared to December (58. 4 million visits). It is followed by GB News (53 million, an increase of 21%), which enters the 50th most sensitive for the first time in position 50, and Business Insider (107. 7 million, an increase of 21%).
The BBC continues to be at the top of the ranking of visits and is the only one to exceed the threshold of one billion visits as in recent months (1. 1 billion visits), followed by MSN, the New York Times, CNN and Google News (393 Array4 million). . The order of the five most sensible has not changed from last month.
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