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Online News in March: A Story of Tragedy and Tabloids

By Monique Perry, Head of Media Industry Group, Nielsen
Media | 16-04-2014
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We always see a kick in unique audience figures when comparing February to March due to the extra days in the month. Looking specifically at the news category, however, Nielsen Online Ratings results for March 2014 showed that big international stories like the MH370 tragedy also contributed to new, incremental audiences online for the month of March.

The top five ranking news sites by unique audience remained unchanged in March; while the Guardian and BBC re-entered the top 10, and MailOnline recorded notable growth, moving up four spots to sixth position.

The Guardian recorded significant growth during March specifically from female audiences (+38%) which is unique when compared to most news sites whose audience gains were from males. 

Consumers spend more time ‘snacking’ on news content via mobile devices

The top ten news sites increased their session engagement by an average 28 percent from February to March and exhibited increasing prevalence of mobile device engagement.

Looking at the top ten news sites, there were stronger increases in session engagement on mobile (up 41% on average), tablet sessions up (up 31% on average) and desktop sessions (up 21% on average).

Given the ever-breaking updates on major news stories this month, there were certainly increases in ‘snacking’ behaviour on news websites via mobile devices. Adding to this, online news publishers have identified what is working well and are delivering fast, up-to-date and quality content that is mobile device friendly.

Increasing options to access breaking news on-the-go and at any time via mobile devices and through numerous, quality content will see incremental audiences and engagement to online news sites continue to grow.

Top news websites by unique Australian audience – March 2014

Name Unique Audience (000) Page Views Per Person Sessions Per Person Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss)
news.com.au 3,717 63 13.86 01:43:39
smh.com.au 3,609 39 11.27 01:12:05
ninemsn News Websites 3,602 28 11.78 00:47:14
Yahoo!7 News Websites 3,113 16 7.23 00:27:21
ABC News Websites 2,667 30 10.47 00:43:48
MailOnline 2,077 16 5.57 00:41:55
The Age 2,020 44 12.09 01:23:35
Herald Sun 1,860 31 9.86 00:59:30
The Guardian 1,696 15 5.28 00:27:02
BBC 1,681 32 7.85 01:00:15

Source: Nielsen Online Ratings, Hybrid data, March 2014


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Tagged:  ONLINE  |  STATE OF THE MEDIA  |  AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT
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