Online News Consumption in India 2019
By: Comscore
Indians are avid news readers. They consume maximum content of “General News category” compared to people around the world who consumes Entertainment news.
Some Highlights:
- India is the second largest online news consuming nation in the world.
- India has high news penetration compared to other key populations in the world.
- General News consumption is highest followed by Business / Finance.
- Vernacular news content shows very impressive numbers & it is growing very fast
- News aggregators attracts more visitors compared to direct news portal.
- Dailyhunt leads the aggregators chart
- Video news category has seen exponential annual growth.
- Youtube is a preferred by users to consume news
This report is published by Comscore
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