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
51 Gateway Pundit 461k 52.7 49.0%
52 Dawn (newspaper) 458k 39.7 55.8%
53 Infographic 454k 41.1 29.3%
54 Reuters 413k 46.3 55.0%
55 The Washington Post 370k 44.2 50.9% Newspaper
56 The Times 366k 43.0 60.0% Newspaper
57 Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace 366k 44.3 51.0% Newspaper
58 South China Morning Post 361k 40.6 54.4% Newspaper
59 Gossip-Lanka News 351k 35.4 32.3%
60 Purple Fashion magazine 349k 33.9 64.5%
61 NBCNews.com 348k 45.7 63.1%
62 Anandabazar Patrika 346k 49.3 55.2% Newspaper
63 Malayala Manorama 342k 41.2 45.5%
64 Bendigo Advertiser 336k 43.4 60.2% Newspaper
65 Current affairs (news format) 330k 42.8 53.6%
66 The Stranger (newspaper) 312k 41.8 61.1% Newspaper
67 60 Minutes Australia 310k 41.2 61.9%
68 Maclean's 309k 48.4 64.2%
69 News satire 303k 44.0 55.6%
70 The Standard (Hong Kong) 302k 42.9 100.0% Newspaper
71 The Voice (newspaper) 293k 44.4 77.2%
72 The Times of India 289k 40.7 35.1% Newspaper
73 Ynet 287k 45.0 40.1%
74 The New Yorker 283k 43.7 65.3%
75 The Cairns Post 275k 43.8 49.3% Newspaper

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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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