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Top 100 News audiences in India

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest news audiences in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 1.5k news audiences tracked in India, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Online newspaper, Local news and The Times of India lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 39M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 3.2M, and the largest, Online newspaper, reaches around 16M people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each news audience, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across India 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 India who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

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

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Dinamalar 5.6M 38.4 14.9% Newspaper
27 News24 5.3M 33.4 13.8%
28 Eenadu 4.8M 33.0 15.1% Newspaper
29 Resumé (magazine) 4.2M 34.2 58.4% Newspaper
30 Punjab Kesari 4.2M 33.7 24.3%
31 Purple Fashion magazine 4.2M 35.9 72.2%
32 Sakshi (newspaper) 4M 33.4 19.9% Newspaper
33 Rajasthan Patrika 3.9M 32.8 13.4% Newspaper
34 Google News 3.9M 29.3 36.9%
35 Gujarat Samachar 3.9M 39.0 24.1% Newspaper
36 Pakistan News 3.6M 30.8 5.2%
37 Zee 24 Taas 2.8M 35.9 21.1%
38 Maalai Malar 2.8M 35.9 16.9% Newspaper
39 Current affairs (news format) 2.5M 31.7 25.0%
40 Prajavani 2.5M 34.2 17.7% Newspaper
41 Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace 2.3M 34.2 26.0% Newspaper
42 Tamil The Hindu 2.2M 36.0 17.4%
43 Time (magazine) 2.2M 30.6 21.5%
44 Globes 2.1M 49.6 65.0%
45 Daily News and Analysis 2.1M 33.2 30.1% Newspaper
46 Kannada Prabha 2.1M 34.0 18.8% Newspaper
47 Greater Kashmir 2M 33.1 14.7%
48 Madhyamam Daily 2M 41.2 21.6% Newspaper
49 Today (Singapore newspaper) 2M 25.0 44.0%
50 Sakal 1.8M 34.7 19.9% Newspaper

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across India 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 India?

Online newspaper currently leads with an estimated audience of 16M people in India.

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