One publisher dominates South Africa’s online space

[Jamie McKane]

One publisher dominates South Africa’s online space

24.com, the publisher of News24, continues to dominate the South African online news space with a readership of 11 million unique browsers and 298 million page views.

This was one of the findings from the Narratiive website traffic report for November 2020.

 

[Johnatan56]

According to News24, it has signed up more than 20,000 subscribers in its first two months, which shows the popularity of the service.

Publisher	Biggest Publications	Unique Browsers	Page Views
24.com	News24 Business Insider Network24	18,102,277	297,640,024

Would guess 2/3 unique browsers per person visiting, so ~6-10m people have visited the site, and you managed to get 0.2% to sign up (took the 10m as there are people using only e.g. phone to view the site, etc.). So R1.5m subs rate, wonder how much the engagement rate declined, because page views is not the only measurement. People just opening the headlines page a couple of times, seeing nothing new in 3/4s don't really count for most advertisers.

 

[Willie Trombone]

I avoid News24 like the plague

 

[MikeaMatrix]

So when are they going to be investigated by the competition commission? ? Or does that only apply if ANC "entrepreneur" stands to gain

 

[Binary_Bark]

I avoid News24 like the plague

They can't even spell plague to begin with

 

[LCBXX]

News24 aids in the spread of Government propaganda. The fact that is has nearly 6x the views compared to the site in 2nd place should be alarming in that context, unless they're able to manipulate the figures.

 

[Johand]

I am a bit surprised about the low sign-up rate. I think paying for high quality news is a no-brainer. In general news24's quality has improved - not perfect yet but a lot better than 2 years ago where errors outnumbered facts 3:1 (especially fin24).

Subscription is good value for money especially with included magazines.

 

[Hackson]

I pay for moneyweb and Daily maverick. The BA guys need to eat too guys. The tech community can't take all the money now.

 

[Willie Trombone]

I pay for moneyweb and Daily maverick. The BA guys need to eat too guys. The tech community can't take all the money now.

You mean I should pay the peddlers of fake news?
Those sponsored ads made to look like news is what I'm referring to.

 

[access]

does it have anything to do with browser default home page news feeds

 

[object]

That's a lot a page views about dstv

 

[Johnatan56]

I am a bit surprised about the low sign-up rate. I think paying for high quality news is a no-brainer. In general news24's quality has improved - not perfect yet but a lot better than 2 years ago where errors outnumbered facts 3:1 (especially fin24).

Subscription is good value for money especially with included magazines.

It's still not high quality, and they post a lot of news that is misleading/wrong, e.g. Senekal.

 

[genetic]

Just because you're the biggest doesn't mean you're the best. News24 is trash.

 

[Shadowchaser1]

Mmmm...... News24 falls into the FAKE NEWS category as well. No wonder the low sign-up rate. News24 belongs to Naspers who has ties/huge shares and in Tencent/WeChat which is part of CCP. SA Gov has massive ties and and close to a 100 agreements with the CCP.

 

[Thugscub]

Same as SABC the governments propoganda pos.

 

[midnightcaller]

Many years ago, I deleted the news24 app and I avoid the website.

 

[supersunbird]

Since comments were removed a few years back I rarely go onto News24.

 

[uchoose]

I often click on a headline, so I guess that counts as traffic but don't read the article as have to subscribe. Really only 20 000 people read it then, not that impressive.

 

[bwana]

I often click on a headline, so I guess that counts as traffic but don't read the article as have to subscribe. Really only 20 000 people read it then, not that impressive.

You could save yourself the effort and not click on the one(s) that say "For Subscribers"

 

[supersunbird]

You could save yourself the effort and not click on the one(s) that say "For Subscribers"

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And if it's a link on MyBB that you click in a post?