Publisher traffic sources: Google steady but social and direct referrals are down
Chartbeat data reveals traffic trends to 565 publishers since 2019.
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RAJARs Q2 2025: Times Radio reports record year-on-year growth
Times Radio has grown its listenership by a record 29% on a yearly basis.
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World’s biggest news websites: Japan and Brazil sites top ranking
Press Gazette has ranked the top 50 news websites globally based on Similarweb data.
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How Google AI Overviews is fuelling zero-click searches for top publishers
Likes of Mail Online and People see high proportion of AI Overviews for their key search terms.
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Where do UK ‘decision makers’ get their news? Publishers, social media and AI
Major survey reveals UK adults use AI to access news (but they don’t trust it).
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Top UK online publishers: X plummets, Reddit surges, news publishers ranked
Reach has largest monthly audience reach among commercial UK news publishers.
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RAJARs Q1 2025: News UK’s Talk sees weekly reach fall by a third
GB News and Times Radio continued to grow at start of 2025.
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Facebook increasing as part of social traffic mix after algorithm change, data shows
More than a third of major global news websites saw both Facebook share and total social referral traffic growth in…
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