June Top Media Outlets: Newspapers, Blogs, Consumer Magazines, Broadcasters, 2013 Websites & Social Networks
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Rank Newspaper Daily Sunday Rank Newspaper Daily Sunday
1 The Wall Street Journal 2,378,827 N/A 51 The Columbus (OH) Dispatch 137,148 257,479 2 The New York Times 1,865,318 2,322,429 52 Omaha World-Herald 132,322 162,124 3 USA Today 1,674,306 N/A 53 The Virginian-Pilot (Hampton Roads, VA) 131,653 161,553 4 Los Angeles Times 653,868 954,010 54 The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 131,208 224,420 5 Daily News (New York, NY) 516,165 644,879 55 The Cincinnati Enquirer 129,901 254,670 6 New York Post 500,521 353,900 56 Austin American-Statesman 129,519 183,685 7 The Washington Post 474,767 838,014 57 The Hartford Courant 128,302 185,757 8 Chicago Sun-Times 470,548 406,094 58 The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) 124,667 171,446 9 The Denver Post 416,676 626,875 59 News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) 123,258 179,214 10 Chicago Tribune 414,930 781,324 60 La Opinión 115,682 37,585 11 The Dallas Morning News 409,265 697,717 61 The Detroit News 115,643 N/A 12 Newsday (Long Island, NY) 377,744 458,692 62 The Fresno Bee 110,744 162,989 13 Houston Chronicle 360,251 1,042,389 63 The Providence Journal 109,497 111,404 14 The Orange County (CA) Register 356,165 376,674 64 The Salt Lake Tribune 104,023 138,851 15 The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ) 340,778 432,040 65 Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) 103,190 183,049 16 Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg) 340,260 402,422 66 Richmond Times-Dispatch 102,586 152,446 17 The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) 311,605 458,838 67 Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY) 101,885 149,590 18 The Philadelphia Inquirer 306,831 477,313 68 The Palm Beach Post 101,412 129,485 19 Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN) 301,345 579,871 69 The Tennessean (Nashville, TN) 100,825 227,626 20 The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) 293,640 542,274 70 Boston Herald 95,929 73,043
U.S. Daily Newspapers U.S. 21 Honolulu Star-Advertiser 268,244 207,139 71 Tulsa World 95,063 131,287 22 Las Vegas Review-Journal 252,047 194,057 72 The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) 94,775 133,788 23 The San Diego Union-Tribune 250,678 409,796 73 Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) 94,208 100,658 24 The Boston Globe 245,572 382,452 74 The Des Moines Register 93,304 191,560 25 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 231,094 644,287 75 Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, AZ) 92,762 141,587 26 The Seattle Times 229,764 336,363 76 Dayton Daily News 91,212 156,199 27 The Oregonian (Portland, OR) 228,909 303,495 77 Asbury Park Press 91,098 136,855 28 San Francisco Chronicle 218,987 301,425 78 The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL) 89,574 139,811 29 Detroit Free Press 209,652 708,114 79 The Blade (Toledo, OH) 87,868 – 118,043 – 30 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) 208,280 284,507 80 Greater Philadelphia Newspaper Group 87,147 – 110,679 – 31 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 202,175 215,581 81 Northwest Indiana Times 85,806 91,778 32 The Sacramento Bee 200,802 285,356 82 Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) 84,574 109,392 33 Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel 198,469 320,582 83 Albuquerque Journal 84,506 103,692 34 The Tampa Tribune 191,477 281,086 84 The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) 84,483 90,168 35 Kansas City Star 189,283 280,790 85 Lexington (KY) Herald Leader 82,496 103,526 36 Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX) 188,593 297,976 86 Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) 82,431 94,073 37 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 180,433 302,460 87 The News Journal (New Castle County, DE) 80,918 107,423 38 The Baltimore Sun 177,054 309,061 88 The Morning Call (Allentown, PA) 80,548 119,216 39 St. Louis Post-Dispatch 167,199 287,423 89 The Akron Beacon Journal 80,366 111,606 40 Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) 163,728 228,906 90 Knoxville News Sentinel 77,979 107,021 41 Orlando Sentinel 161,070 268,257 91 The Daily Breeze (Los Angeles County, CA) 76,618 69,554 42 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) 158,090 228,532 92 Press-Telegram (Los Angeles County, CA) 75,850 68,312 43 Investor’s Business Daily (Los Angeles, CA) 157,161 N/A 93 Telegram and Gazette (Worcester, MA) 75,482 78,443 – 44 The Indianapolis Star 156,850 286,115 94 Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster (PA) New Era 75,258 N/A 45 The Record (Hackensack, NJ) 154,823 180,023 95 Treasure Coast News-Press Tribune (Stuart, FL) 73,922 – 92,330 – 46 The Miami Herald 147,130 190,751 96 Sarasota Herald-Tribune 73,718 – 95,390 – 47 The Buffalo News 145,386 219,002 97 The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) 73,557 102,080 48 San Antonio Express-News 139,005 356,401 98 Atlantic City Press 72,843 – 95,626 – 49 Charlotte Observer 137,829 191,962 99 Times Free Press (Chattanooga, TN) 71,993 91,347 50 The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) 137,581 161,004 100 The Daily News (Naples, FL) 70,055 – 85,300 – Source: Alliance for Audited Media (formerly Audit Bureau of Circulations) FAS-FAX Report for six-month period ending 03/31/13 an increase in circulation for the period 9/30/12 - 03/31/13 a decrease in circulation for the period 9/30/12 - 03/31/13 – did not appear on list of Top U.S. Daily Newspapers 09/30/12 New! June 2013 2013 Top Media Outlets
Technorati Authority Rank Blog Blog Address Figures on 06/17/13
1 The Huffington Post huffingtonpost.com 912 2 BuzzFeed buzzfeed.com 855 3 The Verge theverge.com 848 4 Business Insider businessinsider.com 839 5 Mashable mashable.com 836 6 Gawker gawker.com 829 7 TechCrunch techcrunch.com 825 8 Engadget engadget.com 817 9 The Next Web thenextweb.com 811 – 10 TMZ tmz.com 810 11 Gizmodo gizmodo.com 807 12 Ars Technica arstechnica.com 799 13 CNN Political Ticker politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 799 14 Mediaite mediaite.com 799 15 The Blaze theblaze.com 796 16 Deadline deadline.com 794 – 17 Hot Air hotair.com 790 18 Deadspin deadspin.com 783 19 GigoOM gigaom.com 782 – 20 Laughing Squid laughingsquid.com 781 21 SB Nation sbnation.com 779 English-Language Blogs 22 Bleacher Report bleacherreport.com 779 – 23 9 to 5 Mac 9to5mac.com 767 – 24 Jezebel jezebel.com 767 – 25 ZeroHedge zerohedge.com 764 –
Source: Technorati Authority for the Top 100 Blogs on 06/17/13 an increase in authority for 06/17/13 compared with 01/14/13 a decrease in authority for 06/17/13 compared with 01/14/13 * no change in authority for 06/17/13 compared with 01/14/13 – did not appear on list of Top English-Language Blogs 01/14/13
Total Paid & Verified Rank Magazine Circulation Rank Site Site Address Visits Share
1 AARP The Magazine 22,721,661 1 Facebook facebook.com 56.91 2 AARP Bulletin 22,403,427 2 YouTube youtube.com 25.12 3 Game Informer 7,864,326 3 Twitter twitter.com 1.64 4 Better Homes and Gardens 7,621,456 4 Pinterest pinterest 1.12 5 Reader's Digest 5,527,183 5 LinkedIn linkedin.com 1.12 6 Good Housekeeping 4,354,740 6 Yahoo! Answers answers.yahoo.com 0.98 7 Family Circle 4,143,942 7 Google+ plus.google.com 0.78 8 National Geographic 4,125,152 8 Tumblr tumblr.com 0.48 9 People 3,637,633 9 Tagged tagged.com 0.48 10 Woman's Day 3,374,479 10 Reddit reddit.com 0.46 – 11 Time 3,281,175 12 Taste of Home 3,268,549 Source: Experian Hitwise ranking for the week ending 06/15/13 13 Ladies' Home Journal 3,230,450 Note: Hitwise ranks only the Top 10 Social Networking Websites. 14 Sports Illustrated 3,174,888 15 Cosmopolitan 3,023,884 Social Networks an increase in visits share for the week ending 06/15/13 compared 16 Prevention 2,921,618 with the week ending 01/12/13 17 Southern Living 2,867,235 a decrease in visits share for the week ending 06/15/13 compared 18 Maxim 2,543,563 with the week ending 01/12/13 19 AAA Going Places 2,477,028 – did not appear on list of Top 10 Social Media Networks 01/12/13 20 AAA Living 2,455,280 21 O, The Oprah Magazine 2,439,747 22 Glamour 2,324,170 23 American Legion Magazine 2,268,015 Magazines Consumer U.S. 24 Parenting 2,232,707 – 25 Redbook 2,214,603 –
Source: Alliance for Audited Media (formerly Audit Bureau of Circulations) figures for six-month period ending 12/31/12 an increase in circulation for the period 06/30/12 - 12/31/12 a decrease in circulation for the period 06/30/12 - 12/31/12 – did not appear on list of U.S. Consumer Magazines 06/30/12 New! June 2013
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Rank Blog Blog Address Adage Power150 Score 1 Ads of the World adsoftheworld.com 134 2 PSFK psfk.com 131 3 Chris Brogan chrisbrogan.com 129 4 Copyblogger copyblogger.com 127 5 Social Media Examiner socialmediaexaminer.com 125 6 Seth’s Blog sethgodin.typepad.com 122 7 Search Engine Land searchengineland.com 118 8 Brian Solis briansolis.com 115 9 Search Engine Journal searchenginejournal.com 112 10 Marketing Pilgrim marketingpilgrim.com 111 11 Search Engine Watch searchenginewatch.com 111 12 ShoeMoney shoemoney.com 110 13 SEOmoz Blog seomoz.org/blog 109 14 Mashable mashable.com 108 15 Online Marketing Blog toprankblog.com 105 16 Search Engine Roundtable seroundtable.com 104 17 Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik kaushik.net 103 18 HubSpot Internet Marketing Blog blog.hubspot.com 98 19 Anne Holland’s Which Test Won? whichtestwon.com 97 Blogs Marketing Blogs U.S. 20 Agency Spy mediabistro.com/agencyspy 97 21 Convince & Convert convinceandconvert.com 95 22 Business 2 Community business2community.com 94 23 The Social Media Marketing Blog scottmonty.com 93 24 Tompeters! tompeters.com 93 25 Neuromarketing neurosciencemarketing.com 91
Source: Ranking compiled from Adage Power150 accessed 06/18/13
Technorati Authority Rank Blog Blog Address Figures on 06/18/13 1 Deadline deadline.com 931 2 Joystiq joystiq.com 891 3 HollywoodLife hollywoodlife.com 874 4 The Huffington Post huffingtonpost.com 863 5 Bleeding Cool bleedingcool.com 862 6 Eurogamer eurogamer.net 851 7 BuzzFeed buzzfeed.com 828 8 Comic Book Movie comicbookmovie 827 9 PlayStation.blog blog.us.playstation.com 812 10 The Hollywood Reporter showbiz411.com 809 – 11 Consequence of Sound consequenceofsound.net 801 12 The Verge theverge.com 800 – 13 Cele|bitchy celebitchy.com 800 14 Gossip Cop gossipcop.com 798 – 15 Rap-Up rap-up.com 787 – 16 Engadget engadget.com 786 – 17 Mashable! mashable.com 785 – 18 Missinfo.tv missinfo.tv 780 – Blogs Entertainment Blogs 19 Xbox Live’s Major Nelson majornelson.com 779 – 20 PopSugar popsugar.com 774 21 FirstShowing.net firstshowing.net 771 – 22 The Inquisitr inquisitr.com 769 – 23 Open Culture openculture.com 766 – 24 Idolator Idolator.com 766 – 25 The Beat comicsbeat.com 763 – Source: Technorati Authority for “Entertainment” blogs on 06/18/13 an increase in authority for 06/18/13 compared with 01/14/13 a decrease in authority for 06/18/13 compared with 01/14/13 * no change in authority for 06/18/13 compared with 01/14/13 – did not appear on list of Top Entertainment Blogs 01/14/13 New! June 2013
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U.S. Global Alexa Global Rank Rank Website Web Address Reach on 06/03/13 1 * 2 Google google.com 40.11 2 * 1 Facebook facebook.com 43.35 3 * 3 * YouTube youtube.com 34.75 4 * 4 * Yahoo! yahoo.com 18.41 5 * 7 Amazon amazon.com 14.29 6 16 Bing bing.com 4.37 7 21 Ebay ebay.com 2.38 8 6 * Wikipedia wikipedia.org 10.70 9 * 43 Craig's List craigslist.org 1.48 10 14 * LinkedIn linkedin.com 4.41 11 8 Windows Live live.com 7.91 12 12 Twitter twitter.com 5.50 13 11 Blogspot blogspot.com 5.86 14 67 AOL aol.com 1.37 15 38 Pinterest pinterest.com 1.99 16 68 Go go.com 1.24 Websites Websites U.S. Top 17 19 MSN msn.com 3.91 18 32 * Tumblr tumblr.com 2.70 19 30 Ask ask.com 4.06 20 * 74 CNN Interactive cnn.com 1.19 21 100 Netflix netflix.com 0.99 22 96 The Huffington Post huffingtonpost.com 1.10 23 49 PayPal paypal.com 1.65 24 – 116 – The Weather Channel weather.com 0.80 – 25 – 40– Conduit conduit.com 3.18 – Source: Alexa Top Sites in the United States on 06/03/13 an increase for 06/03/13 compared with 01/13/13 a decrease for 06/03/13 compared with 01/13/13 * stayed the same for 06/03/13 compared with 01/13/13 – did not appear on Alexa Top Sites in the United States 01/13/13
Popularity Website Address Popularity Website Address
1 * The New York Times nytimes.com 26 Newsday (Long Island, NY) newsday.com 2 * The Wall Street Journal online.wsj.com 27 Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) sun-sentinel.com 3 USA Today usatoday.com 28 * The Sacramento Bee sacbee.com 4 The Washington Post washingtonpost.com 29 Chicago Sun-Times suntimes.com 5 * Los Angeles Times latimes.com 30 The Baltimore Sun baltimoresun.com 6 New York Post nypost.com 31 Boston Herald bostonherald.com 7 San Francisco Chronicle sfgate.com 32 Tampa Bay Times tampabay.com 8 * Houston Chronicle chron.com 33 * Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel jsonline.com 9 * Chicago Tribune chicagotribune.com 34 The Detroit News detnews.com 10 * Christian Science Monitor csmonitor.com 35 Orlando Sentinel orlandosentinel.com 11 The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ) nj.com 36 Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) deseretnews.com 12 Washington Times washingtontimes.com 37 Orange County Register ocregister.com 13 The Philadelphia Inquirer philly.com 38 The Oklahoman Online newsok.com 14 The Arizona Republic azcentral.com 39 Times Union (Albany, NY) timesunion.com 15 The Seattle Times nwsource.com 40 The Salt Lake Tribune sltrib.com 16 * The Denver Post denverpost.com 41 The Indianapolis Star indystar.com 17 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ajc.com 42 San Antonio Express-News mysanantonio.com 18 St. Louis Post Dispatch stltoday.com 43 Kansas City Star kansascity.com 19 San Jose Mercury News mercurynews.com 44 The Hartford Courant courant.com 20 The Miami Herald miamiherald.com 45 – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) newsobserver.com 21 Detroit Free Press freep.com 46 – The Palm Beach Post palmbeachpost.com 22 The Dallas Morning News dallasnews.com 47 St. Paul Pioneer Press twincities.com 23 Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN) startribune.com 48 Las Vegas Sun lasvegassun.com 24 The Examiner (Washington, D.C.) washingtonexaminer.com 49 – Honolulu Star-Advertiser staradvertiser.com 25 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer seattlepi.com 50 – Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) dailyherald.com
U.S. Daily Newspapers Online Daily Newspapers U.S. Source: Alexa Top Sites by News Category (filtered by Newspaper) accessed 06/18/13 an increase for 06/18/13 compared with 01/13/13 a decrease for the 06/18/13 compared with 01/13/13 * stayed the same for 06/18/13 compared with 01/13/13 – did not appear on list of Alexa Top Sites by News Category 01/13/13 New! June 2013
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Metro 12+ Rank Market Population
1 New York, NY 15,867,400 2 Los Angeles, CA 11,044,200 3 Chicago, IL 7,878,800 4 San Francisco, CA 6,264,600 5 Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX 5,431,900 6 Houston-Galveston, TX 5,126,200 7 Washington, DC 4,635,000 8 Philadelphia, PA 4,517,800 9 Atlanta, GA 4,385,000 10 Boston, MA 4,082,100 11 Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood, FL 3,781,100 12 Detroit, MI 3,760,200 13 Seattle-Tacoma, WA 3,538,100 14 Phoenix, AZ 3,255,500 15 Puerto Rico 3,152,100 16 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN 2,793,800 17 San Diego, CA 2,700,300 18 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 2,475,100 19 Nassau-Suffolk (Long Island), NY 2,448,100 20 Denver-Boulder, CO 2,429,700 21 Baltimore, MD 2,341,300 Top U.S. Radio Markets U.S. Top 22 St. Louis, MO 2,308,100 23 Portland, OR 2,152,300 24 Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC 2,071,600 25 Pittsburgh, PA 2,004,900
Source: Arbitron Radio Market Rankings: Spring 2013 Report issued 3/27/13.
DMA 12+ DMA 12+ Rank Market Population Rank Market Population
1 New York 18,009,900 26 Indianapolis 2,461,800 2 Los Angeles 15,059,000 27 Baltimore 2,506,500 3 Chicago 8,153,000 28 San Diego 2,700,300 4 Philadelphia 6,857,300 29 Nashville 2,258,400 5 Dallas-Ft. Worth 6,018,200 30 Hartford & New Haven 2,289,000 6 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose 6,165,100 31 Kansas City 2,045,800 7 Boston (Manchester) 5,533,300 32 Columbus, OH 2,064,200 8 Washington, DC (Hagerstown) 5,607,800 33 Salt Lake City 2,394,800 9 Atlanta 5,425,400 34 Milwaukee 1,955,000 10 Houston 5,363,400 35 Cincinnati 1,954,900 11 Detroit 4,100,400 36 San Antonio 2,125,000 37 Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville- 1,886,700 12 Seattle-Tacoma 4,221,200 Anderson 13 Phoenix (Prescott) 4,252,100 38 West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce 1,712,000 14 Tampa-St. Petersburg (Sarasota) 3,872,000 39 Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek 1,669,900 15 Minneapolis-St. Paul 3,859,000 40 Las Vegas 1,698,900 16 Miami-Ft. Lauderdale 3,847,600 41 Oklahoma City 1,548,500 17 Denver 3,498,500 42 Birmingham (Anniston and Tuscaloosa) 1,596,100 18 Cleveland-Akron (Canton) 3,264,600 43 Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York 1,682,900 19 Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne 3,284,900 44 Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News 1,624,000 20 Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto 3,442,600 45 Austin 1,661,600 21 St. Louis 2,706,100 46 Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem 1,497,400 22 Portland, OR 2,714,200 47 Albuquerque-Santa Fe 1,611,500 23 Pittsburgh 2,490,100 48 Louisville 1,461,500 24 Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville) 2,529,800 49 Memphis 1,512,500 Television Markets Television U.S. Top 25 Charlotte 2,546,300 50 Jacksonville 1,505,100
Source: Arbitron Television DMA Markets: Spring 2013 Market Populations & Rankings issued 3/27/13.