Top 30 news sites for July
Cory Bergman August 16th, 2008
Here’s the monthly Nielsen-Netratings list of the top news and information sites. For the second straight month, msnbc.com is in the top position followed by Yahoo News and CNN.com. ABCNews is 7th, Fox News is 9th, CBS News is 13th and WorldNow is 14th.
(Full disclosure: I work for msnbc.com)
8 Comments Add your own
1. Anonymous | August 16th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Heh — I wonder if IB will send out a press release about their performance…
“Over the last year, IB sites have lost 600,000 unique users.”
2. Anonymous | August 16th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Personally, I dislike lumping station group websites together like this: “Tribune Newspapers”, “MediaNews Group Newspapers”, “IB Websites”. These stats are interesting for national advertisers, but mostly useless for comparing “sites”. How does it make any sense to compare nytimes.com/washingtonpost.com/usatoday.com to Cox Newspapers/Fox Television Stations/Gannett Broadcasting?
3. Cory Bergman | August 16th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Remember the IB sites don’t include those IB affiliates that are wrapped into the CNN number. So they’re split into two chunks.
4. Anonymous | August 17th, 2008 at 4:11 am
What do you do at MSNBC? I haven’t been there since 2.50 gas.
5. tdc | August 17th, 2008 at 6:13 am
cory, please stop carrying those ibguys’ water!
if they want to try and explain how the second ‘chunk’ gets 18 M, why not let them come on here and comment?
i hold ib in regard, but some of their partners not so much.
how is it that ib touts 16M right on their homescreen and the numbers you just published of nielsens along with the 18M mentioned in ’someone’s’ earnings release add up to 24M ???
and, i too think wrapping 100+ properties into a number that compares to a single property is foolery… at least post the number of participating properties in (xxx) so we can compare apples.
6. Rod Overton | August 17th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I’d love to see a list of the highest local penetating websites…
Seeing that the Washington Post continues to garner a national audience or that Tribune is doing well overall, doesn’t give me any insight into what specific sites are doing well with a local audience (which is what seems to really matter)
If I don’t know that, I don’t quite know what works…
As it stands now, if I followed the “most viewed” list of sites, I’d just make my site like the NYTimes and — in theory — watch the audience roll in.
Just a suggestion… although I have no idea who compiles such a list… (cough, cough.. media audit… cough,… cough…)
7. Pallavi Manuja | August 18th, 2008 at 2:23 am
i am looking for a part time job in journalism
8. Anonymous | August 21st, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Journalism is doomed then, if you can’t even leave a URL for when they click on your name…I can’t believe we’ve come full circle and have defective spam now ;-ppp
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