Olympics and Politics Boosted Traffic to News Websites in August
Posted on September 22, 2008
NielsenWire reports that U.S. news website had higher traffic in August, 2008 compared to August, 2007 thanks to the Beijing Olympics and coverage of the political conventions. MSNBC dominated news traffic beating second place Yahoo News by over 12 million unique viewers. Here is a chart showing August, 2008 traffic to news website from the The Nielsen Company.
| Aug. 2008 Rank |
Top 10 Online News Sites (ranked by unique users) |
August 2008 Unique Traffic (in 000's) |
August 2007 Unique Traffic (in 000's) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MSNBC Digital Network | 52,212 | 29,564 |
| 2 | Yahoo! News | 40,787 | 34,277 |
| 3 | CNN Digital Network | 38,821 | 31,733 |
| 4 | AOL News | 23,114 | 21,209 |
| 5 | NYTimes.com | 19,862 | 13,078 |
| 6 | Tribune Newspapers | 17,652 | 12,550 |
| 7 | Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division | 14,454 | 13,720 |
| 8 | Fox News Digital Network | 13,902 | 8,465 |
| 9 | ABCNEWS Digital Network | 13,377 | 10,706 |
| 10 | Google News | 12,137 | 10,235 |
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