Six of the top ten newsbrands in the UK noticed their viewers develop each month on month and 12 months on 12 months in January 2026, in response to the newest information from Ipsos iris.
The greatest year-on-year bounce was at the Mirror, up 10.9% to 21.8 million. It additionally noticed month-on-month progress of 6.6%.
The title controversially launched page view targets for individual reporters in January 2025.
Sky News (up 8.5% 12 months on 12 months to 19.3 million) and The Sun (up 8.4% 12 months on 12 months to 21.6 million) adopted this year-on-year progress, with each seeing month-on-month progress too (10.9% and 0.8% respectively).
Daily Mail noticed the greatest year-on-year decline of its month-to-month viewers, dropping 17.9% to 17.6 million. News aggregator Yahoo! (17.2 million viewers) and The Independent (18.6 million) have been the solely different manufacturers to see a year-on-year drop, down 4.1% and three.1% respectively.
Daily Star continued its streak of sturdy year-on-year progress, up 80.6% to an viewers of 8.2 million. The title has undergone a year of change under editor-in-chief Ben Rankin since he joined in March 2025.
The Daily Star’s progress was adopted by life-style journal Cosmopolitan (up 61.5% to 4.1 million) and My London (up 51.6% to three.5 million).
Some 28 newsbrands grew their viewers 12 months on 12 months, up from 26 in December. The greatest drop in viewers 12 months on 12 months was at Reach-owned Bristol Live (down 56.2% to 2.5 million), adopted by Healthline Media (down 52% to 4.1 million) and Screenrant (down 28.1% to three.3 million.
Some 36 newsbrands grew their viewers month on month; the greatest bounce was seen at LBC (up 43.7% to 4.1 million).
This was adopted by NCS (up 34.4% to three.3 million) and Business Insider (up 30.6% to 2.8 million).
Business Insider re-entered the top 50 news websites in the UK when ranked by viewers in January.
Time Out the greatest month-on-month improve in time spent, up 64.2% to 7.7 million minutes. This was adopted by IGN (up 54.5% to 29.9 million minutes) and My London (up 38.6% to six.3 million minutes).
Some 43 newsbrands noticed month-on-month progress in minutes spent in January, in comparison with 18 in December. In phrases of year-on-year progress, 28 noticed a rise in minutes spent in comparison with a 12 months earlier than.
Three newsbrands noticed triple-digit progress 12 months on 12 months in minutes spent: Daily Star, up 161% to 34.1 million, My London, up 125%, and Substack, up 112% to 54.7 million minutes.
Healthline Media noticed a year-on-year decline of half (50%) in minutes spent, all the way down to 7.4 million minutes. This was adopted by Screenrant (down 47% to five.5 million) and Kent Online (down 37% to eight.7 million).
The Ipsos iris information measures the whole unduplicated quantity of people that used a model’s websites and apps in a given month and consists of all visitors, not essentially simply news. Reach and minutes for manufacturers equivalent to the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, which have a powerful leisure providing in addition to news content material, will subsequently be larger.
Brands equivalent to Apple and Google, whereas well-known names in news, are excluded from our listing given the extensive attain of their non-news content material. Google News and Apple News should not reported by Ipsos as separate entities in brand-level information.
Ipsos iris changed Comscore as the industry-recognised customary in 2021. Ipsos iris information is partly derived from a panel of 10,000 individuals aged 15 and over that’s designed to be nationally consultant. The individuals have meters put in throughout 25,000 private gadgets to passively measure web site and app utilization. This is mixed with information from collaborating websites which can be tagged so all gadgets visiting the website could be recognized and logged.
December 2025
The Daily Star has continued its run of sturdy year-on-year viewers progress, greater than doubling its viewers 12 months on 12 months, in response to the newest information from Ipsos iris.
The tabloid newspaper grew its month-to-month viewers by 122.3% 12 months on 12 months to eight.6 million in December, inserting it as the the 18th greatest on-line newsbrand in the UK. This is 2 spots larger than November, when it ranked in twentieth place by viewers. The title additionally noticed the greatest year-on-year improve in minutes spent with its content material, up 184% to 33.1 million minutes in the month.
Substack additionally continued its progress streak, reaching the second greatest improve at 45.4% to three.7 million month-to-month customers. In Press Gazette’s evaluation of the 50 greatest English-language news websites in the world, Substack led year-on-year growth for six months running earlier this month.
Just over half of the newsbrands in our top 50 (26) noticed a year-on-year improve in viewers. Healthline Media noticed the greatest year-on-year drop, down by 48.8% to a month-to-month UK viewers of three.9 million. The US web site additionally noticed the greatest year-on-year fall in viewers in November.
This was adopted by newsbrands that every one dropped by greater than 30%: superstar journal Ok (down 39.9% to three.1 million), LBC (down 38.2% to 2.9 million) and Screenrant (down 31.5% to 3 million).
Of the top ten newsbrands in the UK, seven out of ten noticed year-on-year progress. The Guardian reported the greatest improve in viewers, up 18.1% to 21.8 million – making it the most popular industrial on-line newsbrand in the UK.
This was adopted by The Telegraph, up 13.6% to 17.4 million and The Sun, up 9.5% to 21.4 million.
The Daily Mail noticed the greatest lower in viewers 12 months on 12 months, down 14% to 18.1 million. It declined month on month by 2.4%.
Most (eight) of the top ten news manufacturers noticed month-on-month declines. Sky noticed the greatest fall in viewers month on month, down 9.3% to 17.4 million.
Only the Daily Express and the Mirror grew their viewers month on month (0.8% and 0.7% progress respectively). This is regardless of each titles being understood to have been hit by redundancies in the autumn.
Ok noticed the greatest year-on-year drop in time spent amongst Press Gazette’s top 50 listing, down 63% to a complete 5.5 million minutes. This was adopted by Healthline Media (down 50% to five.7 million minutes) and Timeout (down 48% to 4.7 million minutes). Time Out noticed the greatest drop in time spent 12 months on 12 months final month.
Compared to November, Channel 4 noticed the greatest decline in engagement, down 30.3% to 485.2 million minutes. This was adopted by Ok (down 28.2%) and Birmingham Live (down 26% to 18.5 million minutes).
More than half (26) of the top 50 newsbrands noticed year-on-year enhance in minutes spent with their content material in November. The greatest of those have been Daily Star, Substack (up 176% to 54 million) and MyLondon (up 89% to 4.5 million).
Forbes noticed the greatest improve month on month in December, up by greater than half (52.1% to 12 million minutes), adopted by GB News (up 50.9% to 62.4 million) and Hello!, up 20.4% to 48 million.
Forbes and GB News additionally noticed the greatest viewers progress in December, up 35.4% (to six.6 million) and 15.2% (6.3 million) respectively.
This was adopted by leisure and life-style manufacturers Good Food (up 12.4% to 13.2 million), Digital Spy (up 10.3% to 4.4 million) and Screenrant (up 8.9% to 3 million).
November 2025
US-based newsbrands led month-on-month viewers progress in the UK in November, in response to the newest information from Ipsos iris.
News community NCS, leisure web site Screenrant and business-focused writer Forbes all noticed the greatest month-on-month will increase in their month-to-month viewers.
NCS (up 26% to three.3 million individuals), Screenrant (up 25% to 2.8 million) and Forbes (up 17% to 4.9 million) have been three of solely 4 websites to see double-digit boosts month on month.
The fourth was UK-based product evaluate website Which?, up 10.9% to 4.7 million.
Screenrant (up 49.8% to 4.8 million minutes), Forbes (up 24.8% to 7.9 million minutes) and Which? (up 24.4% to 32.1 million minutes) additionally noticed the greatest month-on-month progress in time spent with their content material.
Some 21 of the greatest newsbrands in the UK noticed viewers progress month on month, whereas 28 newsbrands noticed a year-on-year improve – down from 33 in October.
The greatest month-on-month viewers decline was Bristol Live for the second month in a row, down 21% to 2.8 million individuals. This follows it falling 29% month on month to three.6 million in October.
Healthline Media adopted this lower with an 18% decline month on month to an viewers of 4.4 million.
The US-based well being writer additionally noticed the greatest year-on-year fall in viewers, down 40.9%, adopted by GB News (down 39.7% to five.4 million).
GB News remained stagnant month on month with 0% progress in guests in comparison with October, alongside ITV, Ok and Yahoo!.
The Daily Star, which has undergone a year of change under editor-in-chief Ben Rankin, continued to see the strongest year-on-year progress, with a 147.8% improve in viewers to eight million.
Seven out of the ten websites with the greatest year-on-year viewers progress have been equally owned by Reach, with Chronicle Live recording the second greatest improve at 57.5% to 4.6 million.
Time Out noticed the greatest year-on-year drop in time spent amongst Press Gazette’s top 50 listing, down 58% to 4.3 million minutes with its content material in November.
This was adopted by superstar journal Ok (down 49% to 7.7 million minutes) and Screenrant (down 47% to 4.8 million minutes).
Compared to October, IGN noticed the greatest decline in engagement with a 26.8% month-on-month fall in minutes (to 17.3 million), adopted by Channel 4 (down 22.2% to 696.5 million) and Healthline Media (down 21.1% to 7.5 million).
More than half (27) of the top 50 newsbrands noticed year-on-year enhance in minutes spent with their content material in November. The greatest of those have been Daily Star (up 180% to 30.5 million minutes), Substack (up 143% to 49.2 million minutes) and Daily Express (up 94% to 129.8 million minutes).
All of the ten greatest newsbrands in the UK noticed year-on-year viewers progress in November, the identical as in October.
The Daily Express noticed the greatest year-on-year viewers progress as soon as once more, up 25.4% to 16.9 million. This was adopted by The Telegraph (up 20.3% to 17.8 million).
The Mirror noticed the greatest improve in viewers month on month, up 4.2% to twenty.3 million. This is regardless of the title being understood to have been among the hardest-hit titles by redundancies at Reach in the autumn.
Six of the top ten manufacturers noticed month-on-month decline, a rise from 4 in October.
The Daily Mail was the hardest hit, down 4.6% to 18.5 million, adopted by The Guardian (21.9 million) and Daily Express, each down 2.3%.
The Independent (down 1.2% to twenty.7 million), BBC (down 1.1% to 40.9 million) and Yahoo! (down 0.4% to 17.3 million) additionally noticed small decline month on month.
October 2025
The Daily Star continued its run of sturdy year-on-year viewers progress in October, in response to the newest information from Ipsos iris.
The Daily Star grew its month-to-month viewers by 136% 12 months on 12 months to 7.5 million in October.
It was the twenty third greatest newsbrand in the UK by viewers, in comparison with forty eighth a 12 months earlier.
The second-biggest year-on-year viewers progress was at Cosmopolitan, up 59% to 4.3 million.
On a month-on-month foundation, two superstar magazines noticed the greatest progress: Ok (up 24% to three million) and Hello! (up 20% to five.6 million).
Thirty of the 50 greatest newsbrands in the UK noticed viewers progress in comparison with September, whereas 33 recorded year-on-year progress.
The greatest month-on-month viewers decline was at Bristol Live (down 29% to three.6 million) adopted by NCS (down 27% to 2.6 million).
Forbes reported the largest year-on-year viewers drop, down 47% to 4.2 million – though it noticed small month-on-month progress of three%.
Forbes additionally noticed the greatest year-on-year drop in minutes spent with its content material, down 56% to six.3 million.
Forbes CEO Sherry Phillips informed Press Gazette in November the brand is focusing on its core communities, including via events, as Google AI Overviews hit traffic.
Despite the viewers and minutes drop, Forbes did see progress in its web page views in October. It was up 14% in comparison with September to 9.4 million web page views in the UK.
Time Out noticed the second-biggest year-on-year drop in minutes spent amongst Press Gazette’s top 50 listing, and the greatest drop in comparison with September. A complete of 5.3 million minutes have been spent with its content material in October, down 34% month on month and 53% 12 months on 12 months.
Some 36 of the top 50 listing noticed month-on-month progress in minutes spent with their content material, led by Channel 4 (up 43% to 895.5 million together with non-news streaming content material) and leisure model IGN (up 36% to 23.6 million minutes).
Meanwhile 30 noticed year-on-year minutes progress, dominated by the Daily Star (up 160% to 32.7 million minutes) and Substack (up 159% to 44.7 million).
Among the top ten for viewers, the Daily Express noticed the greatest progress each month on month (up 8.6%) and 12 months on 12 months (up 34.2%) to 17.3 million individuals.
Every top-ten model noticed viewers progress in comparison with October 2024, with the smallest progress at Sky News (up 0.9% to 18.7 million).
Month on month, 4 of the top-ten newsbrands have been down: The Independent (by 0.1%, to 21 million), The Guardian (by 2.3% to 22.5 million, though it remained the top industrial newsbrand), The Telegraph (down 4% to 17.3 million) and Yahoo! (down 4.6%, additionally to 17.3 million).
September 2025
The Daily Star reported the greatest year-on-year progress in viewers and minutes spent with its content material in September amongst the 50 greatest news websites in the UK, in response to the newest information from Ipsos iris.
Minutes spent with the Daily Star elevated by 160% 12 months on 12 months to 29.4 million, whereas its viewers was up by 150.4% to 7.7 million.
Compared to August, which was the finest month the newsbrand has had, the Daily Star’s viewers was down 6% and minutes spent have been down 16%.
Editor-in-chief Ben Rankin informed Press Gazette final month October may match August for viewers however that he doesn’t anticipate “the numbers just to go up and up and up and up every month”.
He mentioned the progress could be credited to “all the little things” the team are doing amid a major revamp and focus on digital transformation this year.
Behind the Daily Star, the second and third finest newsbrands for year-on-year progress in minutes spent additionally remained the identical from August, with Substack (up 151% to 41.9 million minutes) and Bristol Live (up 131% to 12.2 million) rating behind it.
Twenty-one manufacturers noticed a year-on-year decline in minutes spent in September, in comparison with 39 in August.
However greater than half (30) noticed a month-on-month dip, regardless of August historically being a slower news month than September.
Several manufacturers re-entered the top 50 news websites in the UK when ranked by viewers in September.
NCS was again on the listing, having dropped off in March, and recorded the greatest month-to-month improve in viewers, up 60% to three.6 million, plus a 6.9% improve 12 months on 12 months.
The US broadcaster was additionally second for month-on-month progress in whole minutes spent (up 46% to fifteen.7 million minutes) behind Channel 4 (up 55% to 627.2 million).
Other manufacturers to re-enter the top 50 by viewers attain included LBC (month-to-month improve of 16% to three.2 million individuals) and Nottinghamshire Live (7% improve to 2.6 million).
Screenrant, Kent Online and the Oxford Mail weren’t included in the top 50 by viewers attain in September, regardless of that includes in August.
Each of the top ten manufacturers noticed year-on-year viewers progress in September: The Telegraph climbed 23% to 18 million, adopted by Daily Express (22.7% to 16 million) and The Guardian (17.4% to 23 million).
Half of the top ten noticed a month-on-month lower in viewers in September, an enchancment from August when all of them did so.
The Daily Express noticed the highest month-on-month lower of 5%, a slight enchancment on August’s 6.6% discount.
GB News noticed the greatest year-on-year fall in viewers progress (down 45.3% to 4.9 million), adopted by Forbes (down 44.6% to 4 million) and Healthline Media (down 35.2% to 5 million).
Reach titles dominated the top ten for year-on-year viewers progress: Daily Star, Cosmopolitan (up 85.1% to 4.1 million guests), Bristol Live (82% to five.1 million), Examiner Live (75.9% to five.6 million), Chronicle Live (70.6% to 4.7 million), My London (58.5% to three.3 million), Liverpool Echo (48.2% to 7.8 million) and Wales Online (38.5% to 7.9 million).
August 2025
Minutes spent with the Daily Star noticed the strongest enhance amongst the UK’s 50 greatest news websites in August, in response to the newest information from Ipsos iris.
Some 34.9 million minutes have been spent with the Reach-owned website in August, rating the newsbrand twenty sixth on this metric out of the 50 top websites in the UK.
This was up 177.6% 12 months on 12 months, the greatest progress in minutes recorded, and 27% month on month, narrowly the second-biggest progress in minutes in comparison with July behind Newsquest’s Oxford Mail (up 27.5% to three.7 million).
Users averaged 4 minutes every with the Daily Star, which announced a revamp and redesign in June promising to deliver “news with a wink” and “focus on more exclusive content for our readers”.
Meanwhile, Substack continued its year-on-year progress, with a 133.1% enhance 12 months on 12 months to 38.6 million minutes. This is following a lift of 286% in July.
Among the top ten newsbrands by whole minutes, New York Times noticed each the greatest year-on-year enhance (37.7%) and month-on-month improve (4.9%) to 485.5 million minutes.
Of the top 50 newsbrands primarily based on viewers attain, 39 noticed a decline in minutes spent in comparison with July, with 29 down 12 months on 12 months.
All top ten newsbrands noticed viewers declines in August by a month-on-month foundation, with Sky News seeing the greatest drop at 17.1% to 17.7 million. In July, it ranked top for month-month progress (9%). Sky News additionally had the greatest year-on-year fall amongst the top ten by 13.5%.
This meant Sky News fell from fifth place in the total top 50 in July to seventh.
The Guardian noticed the second greatest month-on-month viewers decline amongst the top ten of 8.1% to 21.6 million, adopted by the Daily Express (6.6% fall to 16.8 million) and The Sun (6.5% to 21.1 million).
The Oxford Mail (viewers of three.4 million) was a brand new entrant into the total top 50 rating with progress of 52.3% month on month and 216% 12 months on 12 months. Newsquest CEO Henry Faure Walker told Press Gazette the title has “a very strong news team there, particularly adept and skilled at digital journalism” after reaching 11.4 million web page views – up by greater than 100% 12 months on 12 months.
Screenrant re-entered the top-50 rating by viewers, whereas LBC, Irish Mirror and Ok! dropped out in August. Irish Mirror was a brand new entrant in July.
Meanwhile Kent Online, a brand new entrant in July, noticed an viewers of three.1 million and no change month on month, however a 28.1% improve 12 months on 12 months.
Substack climbed to 46th place having secured 48th spot when it re-entered the rating final month. It was regular month on month with an viewers of three.1 million, however was up 52.8% in comparison with August 2024.
Fourteen newsbrands noticed month-on-month progress in August, with Oxford Mail (up 52.3%), The Scotsman (37.6%) and Time Out (13.2%) main the approach, whereas 30 out of 50 noticed 12 months on 12 months progress.
Despite recording the highest engagement in August, Daily Star ranked seventh in month-on-month viewers progress in August with a 4.4% improve – although this was down 19.3% in comparison with July.
The Oxford Mail’s year-on-year progress was adopted by the Daily Star (up 91.1% to eight.2 million) and Reach title Bristol Live (up 90.5% to five.7 million).
The Oxford Mail (3.7 million minutes) additionally noticed the highest month-on-month progress of whole minutes spent in August at 27.5% to three.7 million. The Daily Star ranked second, up 27% to 34.9 million minutes.
July 2025
Minutes spent with Substack writers and publications in the UK have grown by virtually 300% in the previous 12 months, in response to the newest information from Ipsos iris.
Some 45.8 million minutes have been spent with Substack content material in the UK in July, up 286% in comparison with July 2024 (however down 5% in comparison with June).
This put Substack twenty fourth out of the 50 greatest news websites in the UK when ranked by their whole minutes in July.
People spent a mean of quarter-hour every with Substack – placing it in twelfth place by this metric and simply behind The Sun on 16 minutes per particular person.
When ranked by whole viewers, Substack was in forty eighth place having re-entered the top 50 desk in July. It had an viewers of three.1 million in July, up 3% month on month and 43% 12 months on 12 months.
This put it roughly equal with fellow new entrants Kent Online (3.1 million, up 8% month on month and 27% 12 months on 12 months) and the Irish Mirror (3 million, up 26% and 25% respectively).
Overall 30 out of the top 50 news websites noticed progress in minutes spent with them in July, with 22 up 12 months on 12 months.
Looking at whole viewers, 29 noticed month-on-month progress and 29 (however not all the identical websites) grew 12 months on 12 months.
Among the top ten websites by viewers, the Daily Express (tenth place) noticed the greatest progress of 16% in comparison with July 2024 – though it was 3% down in comparison with June.
The largest month-on-month progress amongst the top ten websites was at Sky News, up 9% to 21.4 million (however down 6% in comparison with July 2024).
This meant Sky News overtook each the Mirror and Daily Mail to take a seat in fifth place. The Mirror (20.9 million) was up 1% month on month however down 5% 12 months on 12 months whereas the Daily Mail was down 1% and 10% respectively.
Despite its viewers enhance, Sky News noticed a 13% month on month and 28% 12 months on 12 months drop in whole minutes spent with its content material to 546.3 million minutes.
This meant it was overtaken by Channel 4, which moved into seventh place by this metric on 620.6 million following progress of twenty-two% and 27% respectively. The remainder of the top ten ranked by minutes spent stayed the identical.
Among the complete top 50, the Irish Mirror noticed the greatest month-on-month viewers progress adopted by the Daily Star (up 24% to 7.9 million) and Cosmopolitan (up 22% to three.9 million).
On a year-on-year foundation, Reach regionals Devon Live (up 152% to five.2 million) and Examiner Live (up 105% to six.6 million) noticed the greatest enhance, adopted by Good Housekeeping (up 98% to five.4 million). Substack was in seventh place.
June 2025
The Guardian is once more the greatest industrial newsbrand in the UK by viewers dimension after a month behind The Sun, in response to the newest information from Ipsos iris.
The Guardian was down 0.2% month on month in June to an viewers of twenty-two.6 million whereas The Sun was down 1.4% to 22.4 million. Compared to June 2024 they have been up 12.5% and down 4.7% respectively.
The Daily Express was the greatest winner in the top ten by viewers, rising by 2.2% month on month however 31% in comparison with June final 12 months, reaching 18.5 million.
Reach sister title the Mirror was up 2.8% month on month however down 8% 12 months on 12 months to twenty.7 million.
Mail Online (now being referred to as the Daily Mail in the UK) was the greatest faller in the top ten by viewers dimension, down 7% month on month to twenty.3 million and shifting down from fourth to sixth place (now behind the BBC, Guardian, Sun, Independent and Mirror).
However Mail Online stayed regular on engagement for the month, with whole minutes spent staying regular month on month at 1.3 billion in June (though this was down 7.6% 12 months on 12 months) and web page views down 1% month on month to 498.9 million.
Among the top ten for viewers, greater than half grew their minutes spent in comparison with May however eight out of ten have been down 12 months on 12 months by this metric with the greatest drop at the Mirror (down 9.1% to 228.2 million minutes).
The exceptions have been Yahoo! (minutes up 8.7% 12 months on 12 months to 1.8 billion) and The Independent (up 19.3% to 188 million).
Among the complete top 50, the greatest month-on-month progress in minutes spent was ITV (which, like the BBC, consists of its leisure providing) – up 26.1% to 934.2 million minutes spent in June, though it was down 34.3% 12 months on 12 months.
Two different broadcasters have been additionally in the top ten for minutes progress: GB News was up 15.1% month on month to 54.4 million minutes whereas Sky News was up 10.8% to 627.7 million. GB News was additionally amongst the greatest growers 12 months on 12 months, up 89.5%.
The greatest month-on-month viewers progress in June was at Reach regional Devon Live, which was up by a 3rd to achieve 5.3 million individuals.
It was adopted by the Daily Star (up 18.1% to six.4 million) and Time Out (up 14.9% to 4.7 million).
The greatest month-on-month viewers declines have been at Nottinghamshire Live (down 20.3% to three.6 million) and Radio Times (down 18.7% to six.1 million).
On a year-on-year foundation 9 of the top ten viewers growers have been Reach regionals, led by Surrey Live up 348.8% to 4.5 million. The solely non-Reach title was Good Housekeeping, up 75.4% to five million.
The greatest year-on-year viewers drop was Healthline Media, down 31.4% to six.5 million, adopted by Forbes which was down 19.3% to five.3 million.
May 2025
Two-thirds of the 50 greatest news websites in the UK noticed viewers progress in May, in response to the newest Ipsos iris information.
However simply half noticed month-to-month progress in engagement by way of both whole minutes spent or web page views.
The tussle at the top of the rating for viewers attain amongst the 4 greatest industrial newsbrands continued with The Sun rising from fourth to second place behind solely the BBC (attain of 40.8 million).
The Sun was up 4.3% month on month to 22.73 million however down 5% 12 months on 12 months.
Meanwhile the viewers of The Guardian (22.68 million) and Mail Online (21.77 million) have been up by a smaller 3.4% and a pair of.6% respectively in comparison with April, and The Independent (21.23 million) was down 2.7%.
Among the top ten, Sky News noticed the greatest month-on-month progress of 15% to an viewers of 19.5 million, which means it rose from tenth to seventh place.
In whole, eight of the top ten for viewers attain noticed month-on-month progress whereas half noticed year-on-year progress, led by the Daily Express (up 22.6% to 18.11 million) and The Telegraph (up 20.4% to 18.18 million).
MSN and Yahoo information have been integrated since April, which can have led to some variations.
Among the complete top 50, 33 noticed month-on-month progress and 32 have been up 12 months on 12 months.
Nottinghamshire Live noticed the greatest month-on-month bounce (up 62% to 4.6 million) whereas fellow Reach title Surrey Live was up 310.5% 12 months on 12 months to five million.
Four Reach websites noticed their viewers at the least double in the previous 12 months. The greatest of those websites was Examiner Live in Huddersfield, up 200.4% to achieve 9.2 million individuals in May. Nine of the ten greatest websites for year-on-year viewers progress have been owned by Reach, with Good Housekeeping (up 55.1% to 4.9 million) as the exception.
In phrases of engagement, 26 of the top 50 noticed their web page views improve month on month, led by Nottinghamshire Live up 69.5% to 19.1 million. But Surrey Live noticed the greatest drop, down 34.1% to 18.7 million.
Just over half (27) noticed month on month progress in whole minutes spent, led by Bristol Live up 126.5% to 18.2 million minutes in May.
The top ten news websites for whole minutes spent stayed principally the identical besides Channel 4 fell from fifth to seventh, down 10% month on month to 688.3 minutes.
Year on 12 months, Surrey Live’s minutes have been up 251.5% to five.4 million whereas Forbes was down 43.3% to 7.2 million and Digital Spy was down 42.8% to 10.7 million.
April 2025
The top 4 industrial newsbrands in the UK have been neck-and-neck for viewers in April, in response to the newest Ipsos iris figures.
The Guardian (21.9 million, up 4% month on month and seven% 12 months on 12 months) jumped up a spot to be the greatest behind the BBC (40.2 million, together with non-news content material at the identical area).
The Independent rose two locations (21.8 million, up 13% MoM and 11% YoY) whereas The Sun stayed in fourth spot total (21.8 million, up 6% MoM however down 7% YoY).
Mail Online fell from second place behind the BBC to fifth (21.2 million, flat month on month and down 6% 12 months on 12 months).
All 4 industrial newsbrands had an viewers of inside lower than a million of one another.
The April 2025 viewers attain and engagement figures from Ipsos iris embrace for the first time syndicated visitors by way of variations printed on MSN and Yahoo! for the originator newsbrands. Not all publishers work with MSN and Yahoo! (for instance The Sun).
Elsewhere amongst the top ten, the Daily Express noticed the largest year-on-year progress of 39% to 17.4 million serving to it to overhaul Sky News (17 million, down 1% MoM and 6% YoY).
After coming into Press Gazette’s top-50 viewers rating for the first time in March, Substack has dropped again out (it might be in 51st place). Although Substack continued to develop (up 4% month on month and 75% 12 months on 12 months) a number of different titles noticed larger progress and leapfrogged it to hitch the listing.
They embrace Reach’s website for the UK capital, MyLondon, which re-entered the rating in 38th place with an viewers of 4.4 million (up 75% month on month and 61% 12 months on 12 months).
This was the greatest month-on-month progress, adopted by fellow Reach title Belfast Live (up 42% to three.7 million) and LBC (up 40% to five.4 million).
On a year-on-year foundation, Surrey Live – one in all the Reach regionals to be benefitting from discovering its subject area of interest inside Google Discover – was up 405% to 4.8 million adopted by three different Reach titles that greater than doubled their month-to-month attain. Leicestershire Live was up 185% to 4.1 million, Leeds Live was up 156% to 4.3 million and Belfast Live was up 117%.
Two newsbrands noticed their viewers down by greater than a fifth in comparison with March 2024: Digital Spy, down 27% to 4.5 million, and Healthline Media, down 24% to six.8 million.
On a month-on-month foundation, three manufacturers have been all down by 12%: Healthline Media, the Daily Record (viewers of seven.5 million) and Devon Live (6.7 million).
In phrases of engagement, MyLondon and Surrey Live additionally noticed the greatest month-on-month progress in whole minutes spent, up 128% (to six.5 million minutes) and 63% (to six.2 million) respectively.
Eight of the top-ten newsbrands by whole minutes spent with their content material noticed a drop in comparison with March. The two exceptions have been Channel 4 (which like the BBC consists of non-news content material), which was up 14% month on month to 764.8 million minutes, and The New York Times, up 10% to 468.9 million.
March 2025
Substack entered Press Gazette’s rating of the 50 greatest news websites in the UK in March.
The publication and web site community noticed its UK viewers develop by a fifth between February and March and by 69% 12 months on 12 months to achieve 3 million individuals in response to Ipsos iris information.
This means Substack now reaches 6% of the UK inhabitants, greater than US news web site NCS which dropped off the top-50 listing in March. Substack has entered the rating in forty ninth place, above The Scotsman in fiftieth.
To create this listing, Press Gazette used Ipsos’ rating of the top on-line model teams and chosen the 50 greatest that Press Gazette considers to be primarily based in journalistic content material of any style.
Substack’s listing of the 25 greatest publications on its platform categorised as news comprise a number of UK-based names: London Centric by former Guardian media editor Jim Waterson was in 14th place at the time of writing, ex-Sun and GB News journalist Dan Wootton’s Outspoken was in twentieth spot, and native news round-up The Edinburgh Minute by Michael MacLeod was in twenty first.
Despite being forty ninth in the desk for viewers attain, Substack was twenty third when ranked by whole minutes spent with its content material, simply above Hello! Magazine (42.1 million minutes) and GB News (41.6 million).
Users spent 42.7 million minutes with Substack in March, up 54% in comparison with the earlier month and 244% in comparison with March 2024 – the greatest progress in time spent by each metrics.
Substack’s UK web page views have been up 16% to 12.4 million, the identical stage of progress as the Evening Standard (26.1 million web page views) and the Mirror (125.2 million).
LBC noticed the second-biggest month-on-month progress in time spent throughout its platforms, up 47% to 45.9 million minutes, however was down 30% in comparison with March 2024.
Looking at attain, a number of main manufacturers switched locations in March with The Guardian (attain of 21.1 million, up 6% month on month) again in entrance of The Sun (20.6 million, up 3%). Mail Online remained the greatest industrial newsbrand, on 21.2 million (up 2%).
Meanwhile ITV (for which figures embrace its non-news leisure TV providing) was down 3% month on month and dropped a number of locations to thirteenth behind The Telegraph (15.9 million, up 10%), Money Saving Expert (15.2 million, up 9%) and Metro (15.1 million, up 8%).
All of the top-ten greatest manufacturers by viewers dimension noticed month-on-month progress in March, an enchancment from February when the solely improve was of 0.8% at The Sun.
In March, half noticed year-on-year progress in comparison with 4 in February.
The greatest boosts have been at news aggregator Yahoo! (up 12% month on month to 18.9 million) and the Daily Express (up 25% 12 months on 12 months to 16.6 million).
Among the wider top 50 for viewers attain, most (36) noticed month-on-month progress led by GB News (up 10%) to 9.1 million). The greatest drop was at Reach regional Bristol Live (down 21% to 4.9 million).
On an annual foundation, simply over half (28) noticed progress, led by Reach native titles Surrey Live (up 221% to three.5 million) and Leeds Live (up 204% to 4.8 million).
The greatest declines have been at Hearst-owned leisure website Digital Spy (down 36% to 4.1 million) adopted by Reach-owned Ok journal (down 32% to three.5 million) and Daily Star (down 28% to 4.5 million).
February 2025
Five newsbrands noticed a progress in minutes spent with their content material in the UK in February in comparison with the month earlier than, regardless of it being a shorter month.
Total minutes spent with NCS’s digital output in the UK was up 25.8% to 17.2 million in February.
Although NCS got here fiftieth when ranked by viewers attain having re-entered the desk this month, it was in thirty first place for minutes spent with its content material.
Reach regionals Leeds Live and Bristol Live have been up 9% to 7.6 million and 6.6% to eight.5 million respectively whereas Good Housekeeping (up 6.5% to six.3 million minutes), ITV (up 5.5% to at least one billion) and Reuters (up 5.3% to 12.5 million) have been the others seeing a lift in engagement. ITV’s figures, much like the BBC and Channel 4, embrace its non-news leisure providing.
Of these manufacturers, solely the top two additionally noticed year-on-year progress: NCS up 6.6% and Leeds Live up 103.5%.
Less than half (19) of the top 50 on-line newsbrands in the UK noticed a year-on-year improve in minutes spent. The greatest acquire was at Surrey Live (up 157.3% to 4 million minutes) amid the website discovering success with referrals for well being and wellness content material from platforms like Google Discover.
Also up have been The i Paper (up 26.9% to 62.4 million minutes) and The New York Times (up 21.1% to 391.9 million).
Looking at viewers attain, The Sun overtook The Guardian to turn out to be the second-biggest industrial writer behind Mail Online. The Sun had dropped to sixth place in October however has labored its approach again up the rating.
The Sun noticed marginal month-on-month progress of 0.8% in February to achieve 20.1 million individuals – the solely month-to-month progress amongst any of the top ten newsbrands.
The Guardian was down 6.2% to 19.9 million and Mail Online was down 3.2% to twenty.8 million.
However, The Sun did see the second-biggest year-on-year viewers drop amongst the top ten of 14.2%, behind solely the Mirror down 14.5% to 18.2 million.
Four of the top-ten newsbrands did see year-on-year viewers will increase: the Express was up 34.5% to fifteen.7 million persevering with a run of progress following a leadership shake-up in the second half of 2024, whereas aggregator Yahoo! was up 11.6% to 16.9 million, the BBC was up 2.7% to 38.6 million and ITV was up 1.3% to 14.6 million.
Six Reach-owned regionals have been amongst the ten manufacturers with the greatest month-on-month viewers progress in February, led by Chronicle Live in Newcastle (up 26.9% to 4 million) and Leeds Live (up 24.8% to 4.8 million).
All six of the greatest growers 12 months on 12 months have been additionally Reach regionals, adopted by fellow Reach title the Express.
January 2025
The Express grew its UK viewers by a 3rd between January 2024 and 2025, in response to the newest information from industry-recognised Ipsos iris.
Express.co.uk was up by 32% 12 months on 12 months and eight% month on month to achieve 17.1 million individuals in January, making it the ninth greatest news web site in the nation.
The Express is alleged to be in “the next phase of its evolution” following a leadership shake-up in the second half of 2024.
Just six news websites in Press Gazette’s month-to-month top-50 rating noticed larger annual progress, of which 5 have been regional manufacturers additionally owned by mother or father firm Reach and the sixth was Forbes.
With 136.9 million web page views, Reach famous that the Express additionally “recorded its best page view month since July 2024, when it enjoyed a record-setting best ever month”.
Of the ten greatest news websites in the UK, eight noticed month-on-month progress from December to January whereas half grew 12 months on 12 months.
Eight out of the ten greatest websites noticed the minutes spent with their content material decline between January 2024 and 2025. However all ten websites noticed month-on-month progress in their minutes spent, indicating a newer upwards trajectory.
The greatest year-on-year decline in minutes spent amongst the ten greatest websites was at The Guardian, down 28% to 761.3 million.
The Telegraph bucked the development, with minutes up 20% 12 months on 12 months (and 10% month on month) to 883.6 million. It is the fifth greatest news web site by whole minutes spent although it’s tenth for whole viewers (15.6 million individuals in January).
(*50*)The different exception was news aggregator Yahoo!, with whole minutes spent in January up 16% (and 4% month on month) to 1.9 billion.
Of the ten websites, the greatest month-on-month progress in minutes spent was at Express sister title the Mirror, up 16% to 236.2 million minutes.
The greatest progress in minutes spent total got here at Reach regionals: Bristol Live on a month-on-month foundation (up 56% to eight million) and Surrey Live 12 months on 12 months (up 202% to five.6 million).
The greatest annual progress in viewers was equally at Surrey Live with a attain of 4.4 million individuals, up 320% in a 12 months. Reach chief government Jim Mullen famous in the firm’s annual outcomes on Tuesday that this progress was largely down to content coming from its central content hub helping it to build a “strong audience in health and wellness”.
On a month-on-month foundation two Reach regionals once more have been top of the desk for progress with Bristol Live up 60% to an viewers of 5.7 million individuals in January and the Examiner Live in Huddersfield up 32% to 4.8 million. Behind them have been the Financial Times (up 25% to 4.4 million) and Reuters (up 24% to 4.1 million).
David Higgerson, Reach’s chief digital writer, mentioned: “Building on a powerful finish to 2024, it’s nice to see that over half of our websites at the moment are in web page view progress, 12 months on 12 months. What’s significantly significant about these numbers is not only that we’re getting extra web page views total, however that our viewers is selecting to come back again to us extra typically, with web page views per person up by 32%.
“It’s a really constructive signal too that we’re attracting extra under-35s, in massive half due to extra younger individuals discovering our content material off platform.
“This is testament to a lot of the work that our teams have put into producing engaging content across a range of channels. The success of our Content Hub has also allowed our brands to spend more time deepening their relationships with their audiences, which we can see now bearing fruit.”
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