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...
We’ve entered the new year, and we’ve got a brand new list of top publishers for you for January 2020, with one very clear runaway winner. New year, new rankings. As we progress rapidly through 2020, we looked back at the most engaged publishers for the month of...
Ahead of 2020’s Oscars, there was a resurgence of the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, but in the wake of the awards show, there were more stories about other social issues surrounding the nominations and final winners. When we break out engagements to content about the Oscars...
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...
Though there were more diverse casts and films to choose from this year, the social media movement #OscarsSoWhite continues to raise these issues each time the nominations are released. But since its first recorded use in 2015, which year actually drew the most...
Who were the most engaged publishers for the month of December 2019? What were the top articles for the month? We took a look at the numbers to find out. December is often a slow month for news, and this was somewhat true last month too, though engagements did not...
Last year, over 147 million articles were published on the web and generated a combined 32 billion engagements. So what made waves across social? 2019 was a mixed bag according to the most engaged stories, but out of all news published in 2019*, there were a few that...
As we close the first full week in 2020, and since it’s awards season, we decided to do some awarding for the best publishers on social in 2019. That’s right, it’s Whippies time! These are the categories we ultimately landed on this year: Top overall publisher Top...
Who were the most engaged publishers for the month of November 2019? We looked at the numbers to find out. November closed out with some very high engagements for some publishers, and CNN was finally displaced from the top spot after its six month reign at the top of...
Coronavirus coverage has led to a huge boost in engagement for some publishers
These were the top publishers on Facebook in January 2020