Fox challenger News Max TV’s app was the fourth most-downloaded app in the US with 2.1 million downloads as of the end of November.įox News’ app was downloaded 1.8 million times (sixth most-popular news app), while Fox Nation, the cable giant’s video streaming app, was downloaded 1.1 million times (making it twelfth). The Japanese app, which launched a US version in 2014, aims to give readers multiple viewpoints of a story to try and break them out of filter bubbles.Īpps from news publishers with stronger ideological leanings nevertheless performed well as right-wing and conservative publishers also scored strongly for downloads. It was followed in second place by Opera News (5.7 million downloads) and in third place by SmartNews (2.6 million downloads). NewsBreak, a local news focused news aggregator co-launched by Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang, took the number one spot for the second year in a row with 10.7 million installations. News aggregators proved popular in the US in 2021, making up the top three most-downloaded news apps during the year. While 2021 download data appears to favour a number of relatively new players, Press Gazette has previously reported that total time spent engaging with news media on mobile, not captured in this data, tends to be heavily weighted towards established news brands in the UK. This year, the same group of five apps was downloaded 1.6 million times. In 2020 apps from five major legacy brands (BBC News, Guardian, Sky News, The Mail and The Sun) were collectively downloaded 4.2 million times.
The top ten news apps this year were downloaded a combined 6.7 million times, compared to a total of 6 million times for last year’s top ten. Overall, the top news apps were downloaded slightly more times in 2021 compared to 2020. Five of the top 20 news apps specialise in sports news. The BBC Sport app was third with 570,000 downloads and the Talksport app was in sixth place with (414,000 downloads). Sports news apps also proved popular among UK readers.
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