Popularity ranking · United Kingdom

The 100 most popular News audiences in United Kingdom

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest news audiences in United Kingdom, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 1.7k news audiences tracked in United Kingdom, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Daily Express, Daily Mirror and The Guardian lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 53M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 3M, and the largest, Daily Express, reaches around 20M people in United Kingdom. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United Kingdom who actively engage with each news audience, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

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

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Belfast Telegraph 3.5M 44.6 55.4% Newspaper
27 The Sun News 3.2M 44.8 71.2% Newspaper
28 The Sunday Telegraph 3.2M 51.3 47.5%
29 Financial Times 2.9M 44.5 48.5% Newspaper
30 RTÉ News 2.8M 43.8 54.0%
31 Time (magazine) 2.6M 43.8 57.7%
32 Free newspaper 2.5M 44.0 59.3%
33 OK! 2.3M 44.9 81.5%
34 Daily Record (Scotland) 2.2M 42.1 63.2%
35 Express & Star 2.2M 42.7 57.5% Newspaper
36 The Observer 2M 45.5 61.7% Newspaper
37 Google News 2M 45.3 56.0%
38 USA Today 1.9M 39.1 57.7% Newspaper
39 Birmingham Mail 1.8M 40.7 57.5% Newspaper
40 Globes 1.8M 49.4 66.5%
41 El País (Uruguay) 1.8M 48.4 54.7% Newspaper
42 News UK 1.8M 41.0 58.8%
43 Daily Mail Celebrity 1.7M 43.3 80.3%
44 Hull Daily Mail 1.7M 40.8 63.9%
45 Tatler 1.6M 46.9 79.0%
46 Shropshire Star 1.6M 42.9 64.0% Newspaper
47 Swindon Advertiser 1.6M 42.2 61.4%
48 New York Post 1.5M 43.0 67.3% Newspaper
49 Worcester News 1.5M 42.8 63.5% Newspaper
50 Edinburgh Evening News 1.5M 43.1 60.8%

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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 United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom?

Daily Express currently leads with an estimated audience of 20M people in United Kingdom.

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