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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
76 The Gazette (Montreal) 364k 43.1 55.1% Newspaper
77 The Gazette (Colorado Springs) 358k 42.1 56.7% Newspaper
78 Life sciences 351k 43.0 43.4%
79 Printing press 340k 33.6 36.4%
80 The Japan Times 322k 32.0 47.2% Newspaper
81 Corriere della Sera 304k 36.1 56.9% Newspaper
82 La Repubblica 300k 38.1 63.2% Newspaper
83 Prothom Alo 298k 27.5 14.8% Newspaper
84 The Washington Post 289k 42.8 40.5% Newspaper
85 Época 286k 36.8 67.8% News
86 Good news 276k 31.3 64.2% Video game
87 Honolulu (magazine) 274k 39.8 76.0%
88 Veja (magazine) 273k 44.0 52.5%
89 Libero (newspaper) 273k 45.0 47.9% Newspaper
90 ATTN: 271k 30.1 57.1%
91 Infographic 267k 32.3 53.3%
92 Editorial 257k 36.2 33.9%
93 Health News 251k 31.1 58.9%
94 Black+White 249k 24.4 47.0%
95 Citation 242k 30.7 69.7%
96 Excélsior 240k 34.9 51.3% Newspaper
97 Anandabazar Patrika 236k 30.3 23.8% Newspaper
98 7days 231k 34.3 34.8% Newspaper
99 News agency 229k 34.7 33.2%
100 Marca (newspaper) 225k 42.0 61.8% Newspaper

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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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