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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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
76 The Newcastle Herald 275k 43.6 58.0% Newspaper
77 Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace 274k 41.8 55.0% Newspaper
78 Mathrubhumi 273k 38.0 34.2%
79 Boston (magazine) 268k 34.1 65.6%
80 Daily Express (Sabah) 264k 32.7 0.0%
81 Honolulu (magazine) 264k 43.5 72.8%
82 Sunshine Coast Daily 261k 42.2 61.8% Newspaper
83 Dinamalar 260k 38.4 14.9% Newspaper
84 Financial Times 257k 43.2 39.1% Newspaper
85 Gujarat Samachar 255k 44.2 54.1% Newspaper
86 The Advocate 246k 42.9 52.4% Newspaper
87 Printing press 242k 45.4 47.7%
88 The Star (Malaysia) 242k 40.4 72.8%
89 Stuff.co.nz 239k 43.8 56.6%
90 Philadelphia (magazine) 238k 35.1 91.0%
91 15 min 233k 41.3 66.3%
92 Newsweek 232k 42.6 55.3%
93 Al-Quds (newspaper) 229k 34.5 66.9% Newspaper
94 DR Nyheder 222k 41.6 55.2%
95 The Times (Shreveport) 220k 43.4 60.9% Newspaper
96 The Atlantic 218k 43.2 56.1% Newspaper
97 India Today 214k 37.5 61.2%
98 RTÉ News 212k 41.5 47.5%
99 India News 211k 42.4 37.2%
100 Interview (magazine) 210k 45.4 55.2%

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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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