Press Gazette ranked the top online brand groups and selected the 50 biggest which in its view have a significant news or journalistic offering. The list does not include Google News and Apple News because they are not reported in this level of data as separate entities. Metro UK and The Independent saw the biggest month-on-month growth in June of the UK’s ten largest newsbrands by audience size. Both newsbrands grew their audiences by 7% compared to May, with Metro reaching 19.1 million people while The Independent reached 22.3 million, according to Ipsos iris. They were followed by the Daily Express (16.3 million people reached, up 3%) and June’s fastest growing top ten site Sky News (18 million, up 3%).

Among the 50 newsbrands in the list last month, the fastest growing was LADbible which reached 9.2 million people over 15 - 36% more than in May. One of the group’s other brands Sportbible also made the top 50 in 48th position with 3.2 million visitors (up 3% month-on-month). Second-fastest growing was ITV (15 million people, up 22%). It was followed by Bristol Live (4.1 million people, up 21%) and The Financial Times (3.3 million visitors, up 15%). The BBC was the biggest newsbrand reaching 39 million people (79% reach), while second-biggest was The Sun (27.8 million visitors, 56% reach). The Daily Mirror’s reach was slightly lower in June compared to May, with 24.7 million visitors (a reach of 50% compared to 51% in June). The fourth biggest newsbrand was MailOnline (23.6 million visitors, 47% reach), The Independent was fifth while The Guardian, whose publisher Guardian Media Group last month posted its highest revenue since 2008, was sixth (20.4 million visitors, 41% reach). For the full article visit pressgazette.co.uk.