ABC News websites bump Nine to third in latest Nielsen rankings

Where has The Age fallen to? No July figure in the graphic?

Read this and weep….

READERS are switching off in droves from left-leaning news websites such as the ABC and Fairfax and turning instead to trusted mainstream news outlets such as dailytelegraph.com.au.

Official audience figures show The Daily Telegraph is the No.1 subscriber content news site in Australia, growing 4.6 per cent over the past month to 2.3 million unique readers while the Tele’s smartphone readers jumped 9.8 per cent over the past year.

The cracking figures for dailytelegraph.com.au are even more impressive, with up to 50 per cent of content on the site each day available only for paid subscribers, while rival sites were open access.

But the Nielsen data reveals that despite being free the ABC’s online audience crashed over the past 12 month by 28.5 per cent and the trend was matched by other left-leaning news sites.

The Sydney Morning Herald was down 19.7 per cent and its sister site The Age down 26.6 per cent.

The Guardian also fell by 3.97 per cent over the year to July, and Australians also turned off from the BBC sites, The New York Times and Huffington Post.

The biggest collapse in unique audience was experienced by Buzzfeed, which lost 585,000 readers, 26.6 per cent, over the year, and Crikey, which lost 31.7 per cent of its audience.

As many people read the satirical Betoota Advocate as read the Crikey website

Rupert, that article you posted from the Daily Tele was astounding, even for them. Not just riddled with exaggerations, but unashamed lies. No.1 subscriber news site? Nope, that would be the SMH, who have almost double the online readers as the Tele. I guess it wouldn’t have sounded so hot if the Tele correctly reported they are ranked ninth and smashed by the SMH and almost every other ‘left-wing’ news site. And referring to themselves as ‘mainstream’ while The Age is ‘extreme left’! It’s straight out of the alt-right playbook.