Germany: Online news portals more visitors than ever before
Online news portals experienced an unprecedented boom in 2009. According to the German high-tech association Bitkom, the number of visits to online news sites has more than doubled since 2005. Spiegel Online remains Germany's most successful news portal.
Last year, more than 6.5 billion visitors were registered on the 20 popular news portals analyzed by the association - a good third more than in 2008. This is the highest increase in visitors since the analyses began in 2005, explained Achim Berg, Vice President of Bitkom. The association counted as news portals websites that report daily on topics from politics, business, sport or other specialist areas.
The market leader Spiegel Online recorded a total of around 1.3 billion visits in 2009, which corresponds to an increase of almost 22%. It was closely followed by Bild.de with almost 1.2 billion visits and an increase of more than 58 percent. Computerbild.de recorded the largest increase among the news sites surveyed with 184 million visits, an increase of more than 71%.
The market leader Spiegel Online recorded a total of around 1.3 billion visits in 2009, which corresponds to an increase of almost 22%. It was closely followed by Bild.de with almost 1.2 billion visits and an increase of more than 58 percent. Computerbild.de recorded the largest increase among the news sites surveyed with 184 million visits, an increase of more than 71%.
