News Broadcasting
Moneycontrol tops charts business news dominance
MUMBAI: Moneycontrol has reinforced its position according to the latest Comscore data for February 2025. The global audience measurement agency confirmed Moneycontrol’s top ranking across key digital metrics, including unique visitors, page views, and time spent.
The Comscore India MMX data, encompassing mobile, desktop, and app traffic, revealed Moneycontrol’s continued dominance. With 39.89 million unique visitors (UVs) in February, Moneycontrol exceeded The Economic Times’ (ET) 32.39 million UVs, widening its audience share.
Moneycontrol also outperformed ET in other crucial digital metrics. The platform recorded 349.10 million page views, more than double ET’s 120.74 million. Readers spent 326.11 million minutes on Moneycontrol, compared to ET’s 146.5 million minutes.
Moneycontrol managing editor Nalin Mehta stated, “Moneycontrol’s sustained management position reaffirms the deep trust our audience has reposed in us for reliable market-focused business news and insights. We are relentlessly focussed on providing market intelligence that can help investors make informed decisions and this strengthens our resolve to double down on creating even more innovative and useful tools for our readers.”
The Comscore data solidifies Moneycontrol’s status as India’s premier markets, finance, and business news platform, reflecting its commitment to delivering high-quality, authoritative content for the Indian investor and business community.
In October 2024, Moneycontrol Pro, the platform’s subscription service, surpassed one million paying subscribers, establishing itself as India’s largest news subscription platform and ranking among the top 15 globally.
News Broadcasting
News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI: Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
