According to TheRighting, which tracks right-wing websites, traffic in 2024 is way down compared to the last presidential election cycle in 2020:
Traffic compared to 2023 was also mostly down:
Traffic tanked to most right wing websites for the sixth straight month. Only five right wing news websites posted gains in YOY unique visitors. For the third straight month, Newsmax registered an increase in unique visitors (+3%).
Somehow Newsmax has bucked the trend. What is its secret?
Newsmax's secret?
Turn the crazy up to 12. (It is even more than 10!)
- and get a $50M investment from Qatar.
Dang! You beat me to it. Those other sites are all too squishy.
The coalition making up the Republican Party is splintering. Everybody hates everybody else. Enthusiasm is at an all-time low. Exhaustion rules the day.
The old guard GOP that once dominated has been in the back seat now for decades. The neocons took over under Dubya and foreign policy and military disasters ensued. The Tea Party rebelled and became the MAGA cult under Trump. Anyone with any sense knew the party was heading over the cliff. Now it's becoming undeniably clear to everyone else.
What do they got left? Even hating minorities gets old after a while. Especially when the times are relatively good.
Is this a proxy for voter excitement/engagement, relative to the 2020 election cycle? If so, this would be huge.
I can readily think of a few right-wing sites that aren't listed there.
One might wonder how the US compares to peer countries in terms of how much of a rightwingosphere they have. An intractable question? Maybe a job for Kevin. 🙂
The Epoch Times is certainly putting up a lot of billboards where I live, all including a picture of a white guy that looks very AI-generated.
A key part of Newsmax's secret? Start from a lower baseline in 2020. 🙂
They were a secondary site then; now they're rivaling/replacing Fox as the MAGA thought leaders. Their current month's growth, though, was noted at 3%. They're keeping above water, not dominating. They look better because everyone else is face planting.
"MAGA thought leaders" is a humorously paradoxical phrase.
an oxymoron to describe oxygen deprived morons
A+
Now that Newsmax has $50 million of Qatar of mooslim terrorist monies, I wonder if they can keep their viewers.
"mooslim terrorist monies"
Try not to talk like a MAGAt.
newsmax has a cable channel. only other one of those outlets with the same advantage is fox and i'm guessing they're only down because they're losing viewers and web traffic to newsmax since it's even more insane and stupid.
Holy crap, what happened to PJ Media? Wasn't Glenn & co going to Storm The Gates and show legacy media who's boss?
At least Twitchy was well named.
Step 2: Make this viral every chance you get:
https://unfoxmycablebox.com/
If Fox News had to rely on revenues from streaming only, the talent would be hot-bunking hairpieces.
“hot-bunking hairpieces”
lol
Not that I lament the declines, but without data from a corresponding “TheLeftwing” and or news/“news” sites in general how do we know if this is improvement or an artifact of broader sector-wide decline?
Good point.
If you follow the link you see that there has been a decline for news web sites:
-19% CNN
-22% New York Times
-43% Washington Post
They don’t really do left wing web sites, but we do find
-4% Daily Kos
-42% Slate
Just eyeballing the numbers, it looks like the right wing sites have declined more than the others, but there is so much site to site variation that it’s hard to be sure.
Thanks. I forgot my maxim:
Follow the links.
Always follow the links.
Doing so suggests it is also important to look at the absolute figures. Kindasorta like Kevin’s suggestion that someone/something on Twitter isn’t meaningful unless they have at least N followers or it was retweeted at least M times.
What is its secret?
Wingnuts like regularity and are confused by variety so they're circling around the one website that has the most entertainment value but does not have the irritation of the occasional guest or reporter who might say anything negative at all about the All-Highest Donnie Dorko and his Duller Dimmer Nazi party.
Or, perhaps it's that wingnuts are all taking a break from engagement until the news gets better for them.
Charting quibble: The most anything can decline is 100%. So why does the chart go to -120%?
Loss of projected income?
Mine went to right over a billion yesterday when my lottery ticket crapped out.
These look like Excel figures, so most likely he included -120% in the range so the label for -99% had room to be below that bar in the bar graph.
Wingnuts have X now, so....
Glad to see the replacement theory in action ..
" Newsmax has bucked the trend. What is its secret?"
Hallucinogens?