by Benedict Nicholson | Jul 23, 2025 | Digital Journalism
CBS News’ top 1,000 Facebook posts from Q2 2025 offer a clear playbook for what cuts through for publishers that don’t find themselves quite at the top of the tree like Fox News did. The cable news outlet’s Facebook Page saw 25 million engagements in Q2, and analyzing...
by Haley Corzo | Apr 17, 2024 | Digital Journalism
News engagement levels on Facebook have fluctuated significantly over the last few years. That’s true of what’s successful on the platform too, with the type of publishers and content seeing the most success on Facebook is different in 2024 to what we saw in, say,...
by Benedict Nicholson | Oct 6, 2021 | Digital Journalism
Fall is well and truly upon us, but we still need to wrap up September with our rankings of the top publishers on Facebook for September 2021. As always, we used our API and NewsWhip Spike to gather these rankings, which you can read about on our developer hub. This...
by Benedict Nicholson | May 4, 2021 | Digital Journalism
We looked back at the top publishers on Facebook for the month of April 2021, ranked by their total engagement. The month saw a slight decline in engagement for most publishers and in the levels hit by the top articles, but the level of interactions did increase for...
by Benedict Nicholson | Aug 20, 2020 | Digital Journalism
Engagements dropped slightly among the top publishers on Facebook in July compared to the previous month, with a new number one emerging. Once again, we used our API to gather these rankings, which you can read about on our developer hub. This analysis includes...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jun 23, 2020 | Digital Journalism
We looked back at the top publishers on Facebook for the month of May, with some publishers still seeing record engagement. After two record breaking months in March and April, May seemed a comparative slowdown, though if you were to compare any of the numbers to any...
by Benedict Nicholson | May 21, 2020 | Digital Journalism
We looked back at the top publishers on Facebook for the month of April, with some publishers still seeing record engagement. After a record month in March, April has seen a slight dip in engagement to coronavirus content, with engagement to COVID-19 content finally...
by Benedict Nicholson | Mar 2, 2020 | Digital Journalism
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...
by Benedict Nicholson | Nov 20, 2019 | Digital Journalism
Who were the top publishers on Facebook in October 2019? What content drove the most engagement? We looked at the data to find out. We’re getting towards the end of the year, and as we enter the final quarter, we took a look at the top publishers on Facebook for...
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