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Top 100 News audiences in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest news audiences in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 2.1k news audiences tracked in Japan, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. MSN, Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad and Online newspaper lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 21M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 1.1M, and the largest, MSN, reaches around 11M people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each news audience, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan 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 Japan who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

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

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 The Times 1.2M 38.8 34.9% Newspaper
27 The Journal Standard 1.2M 38.8 59.0% Newspaper
28 VnExpress 1.2M 24.5 48.2%
29 Google News 1.2M 35.8 55.4%
30 The Huffington Post 1.2M 41.5 44.2% News
31 Star (Turkish newspaper) 1.1M 33.8 52.3%
32 OK! 1M 35.2 60.9%
33 Oggi 981k 39.2 49.8%
34 The Wall Street Journal 931k 42.5 29.4% Newspaper
35 Newsweek 923k 47.2 38.4%
36 The Guardian 896k 37.7 48.1% Newspaper
37 Yomiuri Shimbun 823k 44.0 34.9% Newspaper
38 NBCNews.com 784k 42.4 64.5%
39 Japan Today 783k 31.5 47.2%
40 The Grio 771k 42.0 70.1%
41 Resumé (magazine) 764k 28.9 55.0% Newspaper
42 Helsingin Sanomat 747k 37.3 59.6% Newspaper
43 Financial Times 665k 44.0 39.9% Newspaper
44 Fashion journalism 659k 31.8 48.9%
45 Interview (magazine) 651k 31.8 65.6%
46 Ynet 638k 36.7 51.1%
47 USA Today 636k 36.3 52.2% Newspaper
48 Göteborgs-Posten 607k 39.8 53.5% Newspaper
49 Now (newspaper) 603k 23.1 5.3% Newspaper
50 Ara (newspaper) 596k 32.2 63.3%

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Japan 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 Japan?

MSN currently leads with an estimated audience of 11M people in Japan.

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