May is mental health month, and it is a particularly pertinent time for it given the potential disruption to our mental health by the COVID-19 pandemic. We looked back at some of the top mental health and coronavirus narratives of the year so far. These included...
The coronavirus pandemic has led people to turn to the publishers they trust for information. We looked at the engagement data around it. You may have read Kevin Roose and Gabriel Dance’s excellent piece in The New York Times on Monday about the sheer amount of...
The coronavirus pandemic is upending lives around the world at an unfathomable scale. Our customers – the world’s journalists and communicators – have a critical role in the response. They must give their audiences, employees, and the public good...
How the coronavirus has spread online The new coronavirus that originated in Wuhan at the end of 2019 has gone from unheard of to being declared a global health emergency in the space of a month. As you might expect, the online attention it received has also exploded...
NEWSWHIP 2020 A year in review Welcome to the NewsWhip review of the stories that captured the public’s attention the most in the last year, from the omnipresent coverage of Covid-19, to the Black Lives Matter movement’s fight for racial justice and equity, to the...
With the election dragging on through the first week of November, the month was a political one in terms of the top content that went viral on Facebook. We looked back at the month to see who the top publishers were, and what content was most successful. As usual, we...
October was the final month before the presidential election, but a surprising amount of the top content did not actually have to do with the election but the deaths of some beloved celebrities. As usual, we used our API to gather these rankings, which you can read...
Today, we’re excited to introduce a partnership with Reddit that will enable our users to explore what’s happening across Reddit’s network of more than 130,000 active communities — and for the first time ever, provide them a way to search Reddit comments. Reddit is...
As we head into election season, the top publishers are seeing increasing amounts of political content garner significant engagement. We looked back at the top publishers on Facebook in August 2020. Once again, we used our API to gather these rankings, which you can...