Like, Share or Comment: A Statistical Breakdown

Following on from our rankings of the biggest Facebook publishers of October, we took a closer look at our data to try and figure out what a breakdown of top publishers’ Facebook engagements looks like.  Every month, we publish two rankings in our Facebook...

The Biggest Twitter Publishers of October 2014

We rank and analyse the biggest Twitter publishers of last month, from the BBC to Russia Today.  Following on from yesterday’s look at the biggest sites on Facebook during October, here are the publishers that best managed to use Twitter to spread their stories...

The Biggest Facebook Publishers of October 2014

We list the 25 most shared, liked and commented English language sites on Facebook during October.  September’s rankings were full of surprise. There was a lot of curiosity around the arrival of PlayBuzz to the upper reaches, while sites like the Mirror made...

The Biggest Twitter Publishers of September 2014

Who’s getting tweeted? We rank the biggest Twitter publishers of last month, and analyse where the tweets came from.  Following on from the biggest Facebook publishers of last month, we turn our attention to the sites getting the most traction on Twitter since...

The Biggest Facebook Publishers of September 2014

In our latest Facebook rankings, we look at the performance of the biggest sites and stories on Facebook for September 2014, and analyse the most impressive new performers.  We’ve consulted Spike’s extensive social database, and have come up with new...

How Different Sites are Stacking up on Facebook

We look at social engagement growth patterns from sites outside the top 25 publishers.  Every month, we see some new names on our Facebook publishers charts. August saw the arrival of IFLScience, amongst a number of political sites. However, just becase we only...

The Biggest Twitter Publishers of August 2014

A big month on Facebook doesn’t always translate to more sharing activity on Twitter, as our latest Twitter rankings show.  In July, we saw huge excitement on Twitter over the World Cup, and a new record for most tweets of an individual story, on a piece about a...

The Biggest Facebook Publishers of August 2014

Building up a loyal subscriber base is one way of growing your influence on Facebook, as we find out in this month’s rankings.  It was a hectic August in online media. ISIS, Gaza, Ukraine – some of the biggest news stories of the year fell right in the...

The Biggest Twitter Publishers of July 2014

We rank the most-tweeted sites of July 2014, and look at the stories that picked up the most Twitter traction.  Following on from last week’s look at the biggest Facebook publishers of July 2014, here are the top ten Twitter publishers of the month, in order of...