103.3 million pageviews, 53.49 million visits, 16.46 million unique browsers in July
MANILA – ABS-CBNnews.com rose to 6th place among the world's biggest publishers on Facebook in July 2014, according to news aggregator NewsWhip.ABS-CBNnews.com was ahead of other global news companies such as The New York Times, CNN, BBC, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, the Washington Post, and others.
ABS-CBNnews.com is also the lone Philippine and Asian website on the list.
"The biggest gains came from the Philippine news site ABS CBN, which attracted over 11.5m interactions last month, up from 8.6m in June," NewsWhip's latest report said.
ABS-CBNnews.com climbed one notch in the latest rankings, from 7th place in May 2014.
ABS-CBN Corporation's news website has more than 5.48 million followers on Facebook, the largest among all news websites in the Philippines.
The top 10 publishers on Facebook, as of July 2014, are: huffingtonpost.com, buzzfeed.com, foxnews.com, nbc.com, ijreview.com, abs-cbnnews.com, theguardian.com, nytimes.com, dailymail.co.uk, and bleacherreport.com.
TOP PHILIPPINE NEWS WEBSITE
ABS-CBNnews.com also remains as the top Philippine news website in unique browsers, unique visitors, visits, and pageviews.
It set an all-time high of more than 100 million pageviews for the month of July.
Almost a million users visit the ABS-CBNnews.com website daily, translated into an average of 3 million pageviews a day, according to data from Effective Measure (EM), the common provider of audience measurement analytics of Philippine online publishers.
For the Philippine audience alone, ABS-CBNnews.com recorded more than 8.9 million unique browsers, more than 25.6 million visits, and more than 44.8 million pageviews in July.
For the worldwide audience, ABS-CBNnews.com had more than 16.46 million unique browsers, 53.49 million visits, and 103.3 million pageviews for the month.
Second-placed GMA Network, in comparison, had 47.9 million total pageviews, 23.7 million visits, and 10.1 million unique browsers.
Ranking by unique browsers is deemed important because EM assigns a unique cookie ID to a viewer's web browser (or device) when the person visits an EM-audited site, drawing data to an almost 1-viewer-to-1 web browser or device.
Only EM subscribers are shown in its analytics reports.
ABS-CBNnews.com's stats for July are the highest recorded for a month by any Philippines news site.
Separate data from Comscore, an American Internet analytics company, also shows ABS-CBNnews.com ahead of other local news websites with regard to the number of unique visitors from the Philippines in June 2014.
ABS-CBNnews.com's YouTube channel is also the most-subscribed in Southeast Asia with almost 1.8 million subscribers and more than 500 million views as of August 4, 2014.
More than 2.3 million people also follow ABS-CBNnews.com's accounts on Twitter.
Nearly 50% of ABS-CBNnews.com's visitors are in the Philippines, with the rest from North America, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
More than 62% of ABS-CBNnews.com's audience access the website through their mobile devices.
Around 379,000 people have installed ABS-CBNnews.com's mobile iOS app, and almost 362,000 are using its Android app version.
source: www.abs-cbnnews.com
