Digital news subscriptions worldwide 2023 | Statista (2024)

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What is the biggest digital newspaper? ›

1 – The New York Times Company: 9.4m

The New York Times Company reported a 13% year-on-year increase in revenue from digital-only subscriptions, adding a net 210,000 digital-only subscribers in the quarter to September 2023.

Online subscriptions to news websites worldwide 2023

The New York Times had 9.4 million digital subscribers as of September 2023, making the publication the global leader in this regard, followed by The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post with 3.5 million and 2.5 million online news subscribers respectively.

Digital Newspapers and Magazines Market Size was valued at USD 39.64 Billion in 2022 and is expected to reach USD 53.23 Billion by 2029 at a CAGR of 4.3% over the forecast period.

The New York Times remained the biggest newsbrand in the US by number of visits, followed by CNN, MSN, Fox News and Yahoo Finance (150.1 million visits) which knocked People out of fifth position.

The Times is the most popular by a landslide—it has over double the number of subscriptions than the second outlet on the list, The Washington Post. Yet, while WaPo is no match for NYT, it still boasts a strong following, with approximately 3 million paid subscriptions as of Q4 2020.

Netflix is the biggest streaming service in the world. The company reported 260.28 million global paid memberships as of December 31, 2023. That number was up 5.3 percent from the previous quarter, and up nearly 13 percent year over year.

How many digital subscribers does the New York Times have? ›

New York Times Company: digital subscribers Q2 2022-Q4 2023, by type. There were 9.7 million paid digital subscribers to The New York Time Company in the fourth quarter of 2023, most of which were bundle and multiproduct subscribers.

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Some 39% of American 18 to 24-year-olds say they enjoy online versus 32% for print. In the UK, the preference for magazines in print remains largely resolute. Even among the youngest adults a third prefer reading magazine content online compared to 39% in print.

Paid digital subscriptions: Many magazines offer paid digital subscriptions, which allow users to access digital versions of the magazine on their devices. This can be a source of revenue for the magazine, as users must pay to access the content.

Cost Efficiency

Printing and distribution costs for traditional magazines can be substantial. Digital magazines eliminate these costs, allowing publishers to allocate resources to content creation, marketing, and other growth areas.

In December 2023, the news website with the most monthly visits in the United States was the New York Times' website, with a total of 464.4 million monthly visits to nytimes.com in that month. In second place was cnn.com with close to 375 million visits, followed by foxnews.com with just over 260 million.

The paper's print version remains the largest local metropolitan newspaper in the United States and third-largest newspaper overall, behind The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.