Online subscriptions to news websites worldwide 2022
The New York Times had 8.4 million digital-only subscribers as of March 2022, making the publication the global leader in this regard, following by The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post with three million and 2.7 million online news subscribers respectively.
Important to note is that the data shown here refers to the publicly available figures for each publication gathered by the source in May 2022, for example The New York Times data comes from its company report in March 2022, Medium from March 2021, and so on (see supplementary notes). For several publications, more current quarterly figures are available via company annual investor reports. This ranking can be viewed as a snapshot of the leading websites based on digital-only subscriptions at the time of release in May 2022.
Important to note is that the data shown here refers to the publicly available figures for each publication gathered by the source in May 2022, for example The New York Times data comes from its company report in March 2022, Medium from March 2021, and so on (see supplementary notes). For several publications, more current quarterly figures are available via company annual investor reports. This ranking can be viewed as a snapshot of the leading websites based on digital-only subscriptions at the time of release in May 2022.
