The top News and Media Websites
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| Mon, 01-26-2009 - 5:00pm |
The Drudgereport has a list of the top 10 news and media websites by U.S. marketshare. It appears the Drudgereport.com is the most popular non-corporate news website, and is by far the most searched non-corporate news website.
The 10 most popular news and Media Websites are:
1. Yahoo! News news.yahoo.com 7.05%
2. The Weather Channel - US www.weather.com 3.77%
3. CNN.com www.cnn.com 3.30%
4. MSNBC www.msnbc.msn.com 3.00%
5. Google News news.google.com 2.35%
6. Drudge Report www.drudgereport.com 2.02%
7. Yahoo! Weather weather.yahoo.com 1.88%
8. Fox News www.foxnews.com 1.75%
9. People Magazine www.people.com 1.75%
10. The New York Times www.nytimes.com 1.62%
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The top 29 news and media search terms are:
1. cnn 0.64%
2. weather 0.58%
3. fox news 0.27%
4. drudge 0.25%
5. drudge report 0.21%
6. weather.com 0.20%
7. weather channel 0.20%
8. cnn.com 0.17%
9. msnbc 0.17%
10. news 0.17%
11. tv guide 0.16%
12. people 0.14%
13. circuit city 0.13%
14. accuweather 0.11%
15. yahoo 0.11%
16. cnn news 0.10%
17. national weather service 0.10%
18. new york times 0.09%
19. bbc news 0.09%
20. huffington post 0.09%
More at - http://www.drudgereport.com/hit.pdf

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Here is another listing
http://www.blogpulse.com/09_01_26/topPressGroup.html
Gee, Its different from Drudge.
OH MY! Here's another.
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites
Where oh, Can you druge up Drudge on this one?
Here is another
http://www.newsknife.com/features/google_news_forbes.html
Another problem with this list is that they are mixing news aggregators with entities that actually engage in producing the news. Google New, Drudge and Yahoo and not the same type of new source as Fox News, NYT, CNN and MSNBC.
blogpulse hmm ... they may have decided to exclude the Drudgereport from consideration. It is a news gateway.
The Newspaper Association of America seems apoplectic about the #1 ranking of the Drudgereport over here - http://www.naa.org/blog/digitaledge/1/2008/03/Nielsen-Online-Names-Top-30-News-Sites.cfm
I suspect corporations don't much care for the Drudgereport. A one person show making large corporations look bad must be tough on the ego.
Here's another for the list...and Drudge didn't even make their Top 20:
At some point I expect he will be sued for copyright infringement.
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