by NewsWhip | Feb 9, 2015 | Digital Journalism
We’re back with the first Facebook rankings of 2015, and the data remains as essential and fascinating as ever. Read on for the full top 25 sites, with full data and analysis. At the end of 2014, we saw the hierarchy of Facebook publishers slowly in transition....
by NewsWhip | Feb 5, 2015 | Interviews, Digital Journalism
We talk to a social media strategist at one of Canada’s best-known media outlets about their social strategy, and how they use Spike to stay on top of the stories that matter in real time. Last month, we named broadcaster Global News the biggest Canadian...
by NewsWhip | Jan 14, 2015 | Other
In the final Twitter rankings of 2014, we see the advantage of getting retweeted by social influencers in increasing reach and reaching new readers. After posting the biggest Facebook publishers of December yesterday, we pulled exclusive data from Spike’s...
by NewsWhip | Jan 13, 2015 | Other
Our final social rankings of 2014 show the sites that made themselves known on Facebook throughout the year, and give an indication as to what 2015 might look like. After the huge upset we saw in November’s Facebook rankings, things steadied themselves somewhat...
by NewsWhip | Jan 8, 2015 | Brands, Digital Journalism
We list some practical tips to help get your social strategy off to a strong start in 2015, from creating content for social, to making subscribers out of new readers. Throughout 2014, we kept close tabs on the way that publishers were reaching new readers on social...
by NewsWhip | Nov 12, 2014 | Other
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...
by NewsWhip | Nov 11, 2014 | Other
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...
by NewsWhip | Oct 22, 2014 | Digital Journalism
 We look at the importance of ‘selling’ your stories when posting to social media, in order to boost sharing. In our guide to making a story go viral from last week, we touched on the idea of the ‘social lede’ as an important factor in...
by NewsWhip | Oct 8, 2014 | Other
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...