CNN began 2020 with its highest audience numbers in its history for both total audiences and mobile audiences.
The performance by CNN Digital in January outpaced all competitors for nearly 4 years in respect of US unique visitors, nearly 5 years for video and 9 months for global unique visitors.
Comscore’s monthly competitive report showed record high traffic numbers for CNN, stating that CNN’s digital audience in the U.S. in January 2020 was a record 148 million unique visitors and a record 128 million mobile unique visitors. Competitively, CNN held the position as the top global digital news brand in December 2019 (December data is the most current available in Comscore.
Internal Adobe Analytics data shows record global traffic in January 2020 as well), and also showed its strength in the U.S., ranking again as the top digital news outlet in January 2020 in the key categories of multi-platform unique visitors, mobile unique visitors, multi-platform video starts (Dec. 2019), millennial unique visitors, and political unique visitors, which shows again that more people get their news online from CNN than from any other outlet.
CNN saw a larger global audience than any other news platform in the world in December 2019, with 165 million unique multi-platform visitors (data most current available), 20 million more than second place BBC and 37 million more than third place The Daily Mail.
January Multi-platform Unique Visitors
CNN.com – 165 million unique visitors
BBC – 145 million unique visitors
DailyMail.co.uk – 128 million unique visitors
Yahoo News – 123 million unique visitors
The New York Times Brand – 118 million unique visitors
FoxNews.com – 104 million unique visitors
CNN’s mobile audience continued to top 100 million unique visitors in January with an all-time record of 128 million mobile unique visitors – 33 million more mobile unique visitors than both second-place Fox News and third-place The New York Times.
CNN Politics
CNN Politics continued to reign on top of all political news sources at the start of Election Year 2020, as the top ranked political news destination in January 2020 with 58 million multi-platform unique visitors, 50 million mobile unique visitors and 74 million multi-platform video starts (December 2019) .
January 2020 was the second biggest month ever for CNN Politics mobile audience behind December 2019. CNN Politics has remained the top online political news outlet since March 2015 when the first person declared their candidacy for president in the 2016 race.
CNN Politics Ratings Report
CNN Politics – 58 million unique visitors
TheHill.com –34 million unique visitors
Politico.com – 31 million unique visitors
Fox NewsPolitics– 24 million unique visitors
MSNBC TV – 15.4 million unique visitors
NBCNews.com Politics – 14.7 million unique visitors