CNN Digital: #1 for Audience, Mobile, Video, Politics and Social in February March 19, 2019
CNN Digital extended its winning streak across categories in February 2019, outpacing all competitors in multiplatform unique visitors, mobile unique visitors, multiplatform video starts, social audience and politics. February 2019 also marked the 19th month in a row of CNN sustaining an audience of more than 100 million unique visitors.
#1 IN MULTIPLATFORM VISITORS
CNN surpassed every competitor in February 2019 with 114 million unique visitors domestically, with 12 million more unique visitors than the nearest competitor.
CNN: 114 Million Unique Visitors
FoxNews.com - 102 million unique visitors
The New York Times Brand - 90 million unique visitors
WashingtonPost.com - 82 million unique visitors
DailyMail.co.uk - 70 million unique visitors
NBCNews.com - 69 million unique visitors
Source: Comscore Media Metrix Multi-Platform, Custom-Defined List, Total Digital Audience, February 2019, U.S. Based on CNN.com entity compared to a custom list of single brand competitors that are also in the News/Information Category.
#1 IN MULTIPLATFORM VIDEO STARTS
CNN topped its competitors in January 2019 with 528 million multiplatform video starts, making February the 45th straight month at #1, with more than 238 million multiplatform video starts than the nearest competitor, Fox News.
CNN: 528 Million Multiplatform Video Starts
FoxNews.com - 289 million video starts
Yahoo News - 285 million video starts
MSN News - 156 million video starts
ABCNews.com Sites - 144 million video starts
MSNBC TV - 103 million video starts
Source: Comscore Video Metrix , Custom-Defined List, Total Audience, January 2019, U.S. Based on CNN.com entity compared to a custom list of single brand competitors that are also in the News/Information Category. (January data is the most current available)
#1 IN MOBILE UNIQUE VISITORS
CNN's mobile audience once again out measured all competitors in February 2019, with 96 million mobile unique visitors. CNN saw 9 million more mobile users than second-place Fox News and 21 million more than third-place New York Times.
CNN: 96 Million Mobile Unique Visitors
FoxNews.com - 86 million unique visitors
The New York Times Brand - 74 million unique visitors
WashingtonPost.com - 68 million unique visitors
Dailymail.co.uk- 65 million unique visitors
NBCNews.com - 61 million unique visitors
Source: Comscore Mobile Metrix , Custom-Defined List, Total Mobile, February 2019, U.S. Based on CNN.com entity compared to a custom list of single brand competitors that are also in the News/Information Category.
#1 POLITICAL NEWS SOURCE
As the 2020 race heats up and more candidates declare, CNN Politics dominates as #1 in political news in February with 48 million multiplatform unique visitors, 283 million multiplatform views and 98 million desktop video starts. CNN Politics has remained the #1 online political news outlet since March of 2015 when the first person declared their candidacy for president in the 2016 race.
CNN Politics: 48 Million Unique Visitors
TheHill.com - 30 million unique visitors
Fox News Politics - 27 million unique visitors
Politico.com - 26 million unique visitors
NBCNews.com Politics - 14 million unique visitors
MSNBC TV - 11 million unique visitors
Source: Comscore Media Metrix Multi-Platform, New/Information - Politics, Total Digital Audience, February 2019, U.S.; Comscore Video Metrix , CNN Politics, Total Audience, February 2019, U.S. CNN Politics has been #1 in the competitive rank in video and multiplatform views since March of 2015.
#1 SOCIAL MEDIA
CNN has ranked as the number one social news outlet in the US for more than four years, with more fans and followers than any other competitor.
#1 news brand on Facebook with 48.6 million Facebook fans across CNN's main accounts
#1 most followed news brand on Twitter with 95.8 million followers across CNN's main accounts
@CNNBRK alone had 12 million more Twitter followers than the leading competitive flagship account (The New York Times - 42.7 mm followers)
#1 most followed US news brand on Instagram with 6.6 million followers
Sources: Shareablee, February 2019. Brands included in comparison are CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, The New York Times, HuffPost, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, BBC News(UK), BuzzFeed, ABC News, NPR, Mashable, The Daily Mail, NowThis, AJ+, Al Jazeera English, NBC News, CBS News, HLN, and Yahoo News. Facebook main accounts for CNN are CNN and CNN International. Twitter main accounts for CNN are @CNN and @CNNBRK. Instagram for CNN includes flagship account only
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CNN Digital: #1 for Audience, Mobile, Video, Politics and Social in February March 19, 2019
