Chartbeat customers often ask about global referrer trends, to help put their own data into context. In recent weeks, several of our partners have reported seeing a notable drop in…

The first quarter of the new year saw notable growth in search traffic across our global network, along with a few surprises in regions with the highest Average Engaged Time.…

While former President Donald Trump dominated reader engagement for much of last year, we wondered if those audience trends would continue, or begin to tilt in favor of current President…

News consumption reached unforeseen highs in 2020, but it was three topics — Covid-19, protests and social movements, and the U.S. election — that drew outsized attention from audiences. Below,…

Publishers across Australia abruptly saw their content go dark on Facebook last month, limiting their ability to reach audiences across the world. Now that the ban has been lifted and…

Our ongoing analysis of 2020 trends has led us to consider how content attribution patterns drive readers to subscribe. In particular, we wondered: How could we best assign a weight…

Our analysis of engagement data and trends over the past year led us to another important question — did all of the changes to our lives related to the pandemic…

The year ended much like it began — with reader engagement highest in Latin America and the strongest reader loyalty in Europe, according to our last audience analysis of 2020.…

After analyzing reader traffic data from this past year, our Data Science team next wanted to understand the impact of devices and platforms on audience engagement in 2020. More from…

Our 2020 version of The Most Engaging Stories is a reflection of a year marked by a global pandemic and drama-filled U.S. election cycle. Of the most engaging articles in…