News Center >

Top Seven News Entities Ranking Remain Consistent For August 2017

5 minute read | September 2017

ย  ย  ย – news.com.au retains top place in Nielsen digital news rankings
– Top seven entities ranking remained consistent
– 13.5 million Australians engaging with Current Events & Global News

Sydney, Australia – 25 September 2017:ย Latest data released today by Nielsen revealed News.com.au retained the top position in Nielsenโ€™s digital rankings with a unique audience of 5.6 million, despite a decrease of 5% compared to the previous month. With no month-on-month change to the ranking for the top seven news entities, News.com.au was followed by ABC News Websites (5.2 million, +11%), nine.com.au (4.3 million, -4%), ย smh.com.au (4.0 million, -4%), Daily Mail (2.9 million, -7%), The Guardian (2.8 million, 0%) and Yahoo7 News Websites (2.8 million, +4%).

The Daily Telegraph (2.3 million, +1%) jumped from ninth to eighth place, followed by Herald Sun ย (2.3 million, +2%) who jumped from tenth to ninth and BBC (2.3 million, -3%) who dropped from eighth to tenth, when compared with the previous month.

[infogram id=”d408ee20-3dec-4d87-a5b9-d336fb2e6ac3″ prefix=”RsJ” format=”interactive”]

ABOUT NIELSEN
Nielsen N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy. Nielsenโ€™s Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services across all devices where content โ€” video, audio and text โ€” is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industryโ€™s only global view of retail performance measurement. By integrating information from its Watch and Buy segments and other data sources, Nielsen provides its clients with both world-class measurement as well as analytics that help improve performance. ย Nielsen, an S&P 500 company, has operations in over 100 countries that cover more than 90 percent of the worldโ€™s population. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com

For further information please contact:
Eleanor Saxton
Nielsen
T: + 61 421 692 808
E: eleanor.saxton@nielsen.com