Popularity ranking · France

The 22 most popular News in France

This curated ranking covers the 22 largest news in France, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. The Huffington Post, Spiegel Online and Modrykonik.sk lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 2.4M people. Across all 22 entries the average audience size is 115k, and the largest, The Huffington Post, reaches around 2.2M people in France. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in France who actively engage with each news, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across France and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 22, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

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

Country share

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

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 The Huffington Post 2.2M 39.7 44.1% News
2 Spiegel Online 173k News
3 Modrykonik.sk 44k 38.3 82.2% News
4 FOCUS Online 36k 33.5 65.3% News
5 Época 18k 26.1 74.1% News
6 BBC Online 16k 37.8 56.7% News
7 Full Frontal with Samantha Bee 6.1k 33.0 73.9% News
8 Infoman 6.1k 25.1 14.6% News
9 CBS Sunday Morning 5.7k 40.9 46.8% News
10 RTL aktuell 5.3k 32.1 47.7% News
11 David Muir 4.2k 43.6 39.8% News
12 BBC News Online 2.1k 47.4 43.9% News
13 ISTOÉ 2k 21.0 45.7% News
14 This Hour Has 22 Minutes 789 20.9 65.3% News
15 meinestadt.de 730 46.3 48.4% News
16 hessenschau.de 483 46.0 48.2% News
17 Domingo Espetacular Record 323 39.9 55.5% News
18 Attack of the Show 197 36.2 15.6% News
19 RTÉ News: Six One 138 48.0 62.3% News
20 presseportal.de 103 43.3 47.9% News
21 wetterau.news 65 45.8 50.5% News
22 heidelberg24.de 33 46.8 52.1% 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 France 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 France?

The Huffington Post currently leads with an estimated audience of 2.2M people in France.

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