CNN saw a global audience of 166 million unique multi-platform visitors in July 2019, 18 million more than second place BBC and 49 million more than third place Yahoo News.
CNN’s digital audience in the US in August 2019 was its second largest on record behind July 2019, with an astounding 138 million unique visitors and 122 million mobile unique visitors, meaning more people are getting their news from CNN than any other outlet. The strong digital audience was particularly notable in August, which tends to be a slower month for news traffic across the board due to the summer holidays.
Surpassing the BBC and Sky News, CNN held its position as the top global digital news brand in July 2019. CNN came in again as the top digital news outlet domestically in August 2019 in the key categories of multi-platform unique visitors, mobile unique visitors, multi-platform video starts (July 2019), millennial unique visitors, social audience and political unique visitors, continuing its long streak of success.
CNN.com – 166 Million Multi-platform Unique Visitors
BBC – 148 million unique visitors
Yahoo News – 117 million unique visitors
FoxNews.com – 111 million unique visitors
The New York Times Brand – 106 million unique visitors
DailyMail.co.uk – 104 million unique visitors
CNN broke records in August 2019 with an audience size of 138 million unique multi-platform visitors domestically – 40 million more unique visitors than second-place Washington Post and 41 million more unique visitors than third-place Fox News. August 2019 also marked CNN’s 28th month in a row of an audience of more than 100 million unique visitors, while all other competitors fell below that threshold.
CNN.com – 138 Million Multi-platform Unique Visitors
WashingtonPost.com – 98 million unique visitors
FoxNews.com – 97 million unique visitors
The New York Times Brand – 90 million unique visitors
NBCNews.com – 80 million unique visitors
Dailymail.co.uk – 73 million unique visitors
CNN has ranked as the number one social news outlet in the US for more than six years with more fans and followers than any other competitor.