Popularity ranking · Australia

The 100 most popular News audiences in Australia

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest news audiences in Australia, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 1.4k news audiences tracked in Australia, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. News.com.au, The Age and Perth Now lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 25M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 1.2M, and the largest, News.com.au, reaches around 11M people in Australia. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Australia who actively engage with each news audience, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Australia and are refreshed weekly.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Australia who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Australia. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Australia, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Australia. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Karl Stefanovic 993k 47.3 75.1% Journalist
27 Daily Express 977k 49.6 70.6% Newspaper
28 MSN 974k 44.5 52.1%
29 Daily Star (United Kingdom) 946k 44.5 59.7% Newspaper
30 USA Today 922k 38.2 56.4% Newspaper
31 The Canberra Times 882k 42.9 59.0% Newspaper
32 Eenadu 866k 33.0 0.0% Newspaper
33 New York Post 813k 43.7 70.5% Newspaper
34 Star (Turkish newspaper) 808k 39.6 53.3%
35 Algemeen Dagblad 797k 43.4 60.3% Newspaper
36 Daily Mirror 779k 42.4 45.3% Newspaper
37 Yahoo! News 777k 42.7 61.7%
38 Globes 756k 53.9 100.0%
39 Google News 729k 40.9 42.9%
40 WAtoday 719k 44.6 59.0% Newspaper
41 Nepali Times 696k 34.5 46.7% Newspaper
42 Illawarra Mercury 661k 43.5 56.0%
43 VnExpress 656k 44.4 56.3%
44 Newsagent's shop 636k 42.6 53.1%
45 Sports journalism 624k 42.4 45.5%
46 Resumé (magazine) 587k 37.1 51.8% Newspaper
47 Investigative journalism 551k 44.0 51.6%
48 Manorama Online 485k 38.8 44.3% Newspaper
49 Prothom Alo 480k 36.9 59.1% Newspaper
50 News agency 464k 42.5 50.6%

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular news audiences compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Australia and ranks each news audience by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest news audience in Australia?

News.com.au currently leads with an estimated audience of 11M people in Australia.

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