Popularity ranking · Germany

The 44 most popular News in Germany

This curated ranking covers the 44 largest news in Germany, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. FOCUS Online, Spiegel Online and RTL aktuell lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 22M people. Across all 44 entries the average audience size is 558k, and the largest, FOCUS Online, reaches around 11M people in Germany. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Germany who actively engage with each news, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Germany and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 44, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

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

Country share

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

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 FOCUS Online 11M 40.5 55.4% News
2 Spiegel Online 9.2M News
3 RTL aktuell 2.2M 42.5 62.3% News
4 NDR.de 725k 43.8 56.8% News
5 Report (Italian news television show) 569k 54.0 70.9% News
6 meinestadt.de 377k 42.8 52.5% News
7 hessenschau.de 223k 43.9 52.4% News
8 The Huffington Post 210k 34.8 54.7% News
9 Modrykonik.sk 85k 37.4 73.0% News
10 X-Play 72k 38.2 38.0% News
11 Four Corners (TV series) 47k News
12 BBC Online 44k 37.8 51.6% News
13 NewsNow 41k 44.4 0.0% News
14 Tasnim News Agency 28k 31.4 66.1% News
15 Erin Burnett 28k 54.9 40.0% News
16 Dateline 24k 31.5 70.7% News
17 Full Frontal with Samantha Bee 11k 29.8 48.8% News
18 CBS Sunday Morning 11k 41.6 54.9% News
19 De Correspondent 9.1k 30.3 51.9% News
20 aristegui noticias 8.5k 33.3 75.4% News
21 David Muir 8k 42.2 42.9% News
22 presseportal.de 7.8k 41.3 51.4% News
23 Rob Nelson 7.8k 53.6 78.8% News
24 Jewish Telegraphic Agency 7.6k 53.3 63.6% News
25 wetterau.news 7.6k 43.6 52.0% News

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular news compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Germany and ranks each news 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 in Germany?

FOCUS Online currently leads with an estimated audience of 11M people in Germany.

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