This statistic displays a ranking of selected news websites by unique audience in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018. News content on the BBC website had the highest unique audience in the UK of over 31 thousand.
Unique audience for the top 10 selected news sites in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018
(in 1,000s)
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Unique audience for the top 10 selected news sites in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018
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all adults who use the internet at work and home, on desktop and laptop only.*
Method of interview
Online survey
Supplementary notes
* Smartphone and tablet use is excluded because of Inconsistency of available data across devices and between browser use and application use. Figures for the BBC and Yahoo! refer to the de-duplicated audience of news-specific sites in their respective reporting categories. Newsquest, Johnston Media and New York Times Digital are aggregate audiences of reporting local titles.
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Ofcom. (April 1, 2018). Unique audience for the top 10 selected news sites in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018 (in 1,000s) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 02, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/376297/news-sites-ranked-by-unique-audience-in-the-uk/
Ofcom. "Unique audience for the top 10 selected news sites in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018 (in 1,000s)." Chart. April 1, 2018. Statista. Accessed April 02, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/376297/news-sites-ranked-by-unique-audience-in-the-uk/
Ofcom. (2018). Unique audience for the top 10 selected news sites in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018 (in 1,000s). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: April 02, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/376297/news-sites-ranked-by-unique-audience-in-the-uk/
Ofcom. "Unique Audience for The Top 10 Selected News Sites in The United Kingdom (Uk) in 2018 (in 1,000s)." Statista, Statista Inc., 1 Apr 2018, https://www.statista.com/statistics/376297/news-sites-ranked-by-unique-audience-in-the-uk/
Ofcom, Unique audience for the top 10 selected news sites in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018 (in 1,000s) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/376297/news-sites-ranked-by-unique-audience-in-the-uk/ (last visited April 02, 2025)
Unique audience for the top 10 selected news sites in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018 (in 1,000s) [Graph], Ofcom, April 1, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/376297/news-sites-ranked-by-unique-audience-in-the-uk/
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