Popularity ranking · South Africa

The 100 most popular Website / Newspaper / Magazines in South Africa

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest website / newspaper / magazines in South Africa, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 7k website / newspaper / magazines tracked in South Africa, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Tubi TV, Instagram and YouTube lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 36M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 1.6M, and the largest, Tubi TV, reaches around 20M people in South Africa. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in South Africa who actively engage with each website / newspaper / magazine, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across South Africa 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 South Africa who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

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

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
51 Sowetan LIVE 628k 39.3 42.8%
52 Yahoo! 612k 37.3 53.5%
53 EDreams 588k 46.0 60.0% Travel website
54 Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad 580k 46.6 58.2%
55 Wallpaper 573k 38.7 60.9%
56 Purple (magazine) 562k 37.1 72.5%
57 Photo (French magazine) 561k 35.2 61.5%
58 Purple Fashion magazine 559k 33.9 64.5%
59 MyBroadband 545k 39.8 44.4%
60 Legit (magazine) 519k 41.5 56.2%
61 Apple TV 506k 36.6 46.1% TV / music streaming
62 Google Calendar 495k 29.4 50.7%
63 Google Flights 481k 37.8 61.8%
64 World Of Fashion 472k 30.6 70.7%
65 Udemy 469k 35.9 57.6% E-learning
66 PLEX 464k 48.0 62.0%
67 Al-Ittihad (Israeli newspaper) 454k
68 Wallpaper (magazine) 448k 40.2 61.8%
69 Complex (magazine) 430k 31.2 54.6%
70 Twitch 428k 20.1 6.7%
71 Tumblr 415k 34.2 58.8% Social media
72 Identity 408k 37.7 61.8% TV series
73 Business Day (South Africa) 407k 43.9 34.3% Business news
74 Sunday World 391k 40.1 38.6%
75 Google Docs 388k 25.2 36.8%

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular website / newspaper / magazines compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across South Africa and ranks each website / newspaper / magazine 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 website / newspaper / magazine in South Africa?

Tubi TV currently leads with an estimated audience of 20M people in South Africa.

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