Nielsen Wire » Washingtonpost.com http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire Consumer Insights, News, Research & Reports Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Washingtonpost.com Top New Survey http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/media_entertainment/rochester-democrat-and-chronicle-washingtonpostcom-top-new-survey/ http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/media_entertainment/rochester-democrat-and-chronicle-washingtonpostcom-top-new-survey/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:46:25 +0000 Nielsen Wire http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=13593 The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and washingtonpost.com took top honors in Scarborough Research’s biannual Newspaper Penetration Report.  According to the survey, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle’s print edition was read by 78 percent of the adults in the market.  It also took the top spot in the Integrated Newspaper Audience rankings, which measures the percent of adults in a market who read the newspaper in print form, on the Internet, or did both during the past week, with 80 percent.

Washingtonpost.com was the leading newspaper website, with 24 percent of adults in the local market visiting the newspaper’s web site in the past week. 

Weekly Print Audience 

Rank Newspaper Local Market (DMA) Weekly Print Audience
1 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, NY 78%
2 Des Moines Register Des Moines, IA 69%
3 Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers* Green Bay, WI 68%
4 Syracuse Post-Standard Syracuse, NY 68%
5 Buffalo News Buffalo, NY 66%
Source: Scarborough Research

 * Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers include Appleton Post-Crescent, Fond du Lac Reporter, Green Bay Press-Gazette, Manitowoc Herald Times Repoter, Oshkosh Northwestern

Weekly Website Audience 

Rank Newspaper Local Market (DMA) Weekly Print Audience
1 Washingtonpost.com Washington, DC 24%
2 MySanAntonio.com/Express-News.com/KENS5.com San Antonio, TX 21%
2t Austin360.com/Statesman.com Austin, TX 21%
3 NOLA.com New Orleans, LA 19%
4 Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers* Green Bay, WI 18%
Source: Scarborough Research

Integrated Newspaper Audience

Rank Newspaper Local Market (DMA) Weekly Print Audience
1 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle/DemocratAndChronicle.com Rochester, NY 80%
2 Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers* Green Bay, WI 72%
2t Des Moines Register/DesMoinesRegister.com Des Moines, IA 72%
3 Syracuse Post-Standard/syracuse.com Syracuse, NY 69%
4 Buffalo News/Buffalo.com/BuffaloNews.com Buffalo, NY 38%
Source: Scarborough Research

Read the full press release.

]]> http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/media_entertainment/rochester-democrat-and-chronicle-washingtonpostcom-top-new-survey/feed/ 1 Web Traffic To Top 10 Online Newspapers Grows 16 Percent In December http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/web-traffic-to-top-10-online-newspapers-grows-16-percent-in-december/ http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/web-traffic-to-top-10-online-newspapers-grows-16-percent-in-december/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:23:21 +0000 Nielsen Wire http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=7594 While newspapers across the country face a declining number of subscribers, traffic to the top 10 online newspapers grew 16 percent in December 2008 versus a year ago, according to new research from Nielsen Online.
NYTimes.com continued to be the number one online newspaper, with 18.2 million unique visitors.  USATODAY.com and washingotnpost.com took maintained the number two and three ranks, respectively.

Site Dec-07 (000) Dec-08 (000) % Change
Top 10 Online Newspapers 34,602 40,093 16
NYTimes.com 17,177 18,187 6
USATODAY.com 9,939 11,420 15
washingtonpost.com 8,478 9,470 12
LA Times 4,607 7,963 73
Wall Street Journal Online 5,409 7,235 34
Daily News Online Edition 2,956 5,883 99
Chicago Tribune 3,891 5,235 35
New York Post 2,851 4,557 60
Boston.com 4,364 4,086 -6
SFGate.com/SF Chronicle 2,785 3,503 26
Source: Nielsen Online (January 26, 2009)

“December was an extremely active month in terms of news.  The economic downturn, and its effects on the holidays and coverage of the incoming presidential administration, among other stories, all helped drive this impressive growth,” said Chuck Schilling, research director, agency & media for Nielsen Online.

Nielsen Online also reported data regarding the top 10 parent companies and top 10 web brands for December.  That information and the full release can be viewed here.

]]> http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/web-traffic-to-top-10-online-newspapers-grows-16-percent-in-december/feed/ 2 Nov. 2008: U.S. News Sites See Post-Election Growth http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/nov-2008-us-news-sites-see-post-election-growth/ http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/nov-2008-us-news-sites-see-post-election-growth/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:27:27 +0000 admin http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=6425 According to Nielsen, in November, NYTimes.com was the top U.S.-based online newspaper site, while MSNBC Digital Network (MSNBC) was the top online current events and news destination, Editor & Publisher reported this week.

The NY Times’ website drew just over 20 million unique visitors in November — a 10% increase over unique traffic to the site last November.

Nov. 2008 Rank Top 10
Newspaper Sites
(ranked by unique users)		 Nov. 2008 Unique Traffic
(in 000’s)		 % Growth
Vs. Nov. 2007 Unique Traffic
1 NYTimes.com 20,860 10%
2 LA Times 11,136 143%
3 Washingtonpost.com 11,132 17%
4 USATODAY.com 10,359 8%
5 Wall Street Journal Online 7,427 32%
6 Daily News Online Edition 5,888 120%
7 Boston.com 5,436 12%
8 Chicago Tribune 4,894 81%
9 New York Post 4,490 32%
10 SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle 4,359 20%
Source: The Nielsen Company (November 2008).

Meanwhile, MSNBC saw 41.9% year over year growth, reaching 41.8 million unique visitors last month, according to Nielsen. 

MSNBC edged past CNN Digital Network (CNN), which drew 41.5 million unique visitors during the month — a 27% increase over its November 2007 unique audience.

Nov. 2008 Rank Top 10 Online
Current Events/News Destinations 
(ranked by unique users)		 Nov. 2008 Unique Traffic
(in 000’s)		 % Growth
Vs. Nov. 2007 Unique Traffic
1 MSNBC Digital Network 41,858 41%
2 CNN Digital Network 41,481 27%
3 Yahoo! News 38,763 25%
4 AOL News 21,027 4%
5 NYTimes.com 20,860 10%
6 Tribune Newspapers 19,208 33%
7 Fox News Digital Network 18,378 131%
8 Google News 14,404 29%
9 Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division 13,999 14%
10 ABCNEWS Digital Network 13,350 33%
Source: The Nielsen Company (November 2008).

Despite the conclusion of the U.S. presidential election, The Huffington Post (ranked #21) continued to see the fastest growth among the top 30 sites. The site’s unique audience increased 270% over November 2007 — to 7 million unique visitors.  However, Huffington’s unique audience declined from October 2008, when the site’s unique visitors grew by 448% year over year to 8.1 million.

Fox News Digital Network was the second fastest growing site among the top 30 — up 131% over November 2007.

Among the top 30 newspaper sites, the Minneapolis Star Tribune (ranked #12) saw the fastest growth.  The site’s unique audience increased 265% over November 2007 — to 3.5 million unique visitors. 

The Detroit News (ranked #25) was the second fastest growing site among the to 30 — up 232% over November 2007.

Overall, all but one of the top 30 online news outlets and all but four of the top 30 newspaper websites attracted larger online audiences in November 2008 than they did the prior November.

View the top 30 newspaper websites for November in Editor & Publisher.

View the top 30 online news outlets for November in Editor & Publisher.

Read coverage of Nielsen’s findings on MSNBC.com.

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