Popularity ranking · Canada

The 100 most popular News audiences in Canada

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest news audiences in Canada, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 1.4k news audiences tracked in Canada, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. MSN, La Presse (Canadian newspaper) and TVA Nouvelles lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 19M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 1.3M, and the largest, MSN, reaches around 7M people in Canada. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Canada who actively engage with each news audience, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Canada 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 Canada who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Canada. 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 Canada, 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 Canada. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
51 Winnipeg Free Press 709k 43.6 61.3% Newspaper
52 Newsagent's shop 703k 41.2 49.5%
53 Le Soleil (Senegal) 697k 26.0 61.1% Newspaper
54 Investigative journalism 692k 42.5 44.7%
55 Ynet 691k 45.4 38.9%
56 The Hamilton Spectator 688k 42.7 60.6% Newspaper
57 lexpress 681k Newspaper
58 MTL Blog 680k 33.9 54.7%
59 Cape Breton Post 678k 45.0 57.8% Newspaper
60 The Huffington Post 673k 39.1 65.1% News
61 Dawn (newspaper) 649k 36.0 60.1%
62 L’Express 646k 38.7 51.3% Newspaper
63 Purple Fashion magazine 644k 32.3 66.4%
64 The Vancouver Sun 643k 43.4 54.9% Newspaper
65 Alternative media 623k 42.8 65.3%
66 Edmonton Sun 623k 42.0 49.6% Newspaper
67 The Chive 623k 37.4 44.4%
68 St. Catharines Standard 614k 42.6 60.6% Newspaper
69 Owen Sound Sun Times 608k 47.7 64.1%
70 Daily Express 605k 47.0 64.5% Newspaper
71 The Raw Story 575k 39.3 67.9% Newspaper
72 Daily Mirror 567k 40.7 48.2% Newspaper
73 Gujarat Samachar 559k 44.7 44.7% Newspaper
74 The Atlantic 559k 42.7 53.6% Newspaper
75 The Province 551k 41.9 51.8%

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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 Canada 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 Canada?

MSN currently leads with an estimated audience of 7M people in Canada.

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