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Fran Berkman

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Crunching news audience data @Taboola. Past @BuzzFeedNews, @Newsday, @Mashable. Consulting producer @Trust_Machine.

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Now's a good time to be a sports #publisher: Our data on @Axios shows the category booming. Thanks to Neal Rothschild, Fran Berkman, and our Newsroom team for helping with this story | bit.ly/31ARJMo

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The NFL has an extraordinary grip on America's media diet: - It accounted for 41 of the 50 most-watched broadcasts of 2021 - It was the #2 most-read news topic online in Nov and Dec, trailing COVID, but ahead of Biden & Trump axios.com/nfl-covid-view… w/ Kendall Baker Sara Fischer

Fran Berkman (@franberkman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Baseball might be America's pastime but football is its obsession. Data from @Taboola Newsroom's Topic Insights platform shows this month after month. Check out Neal Rothschild's excellent report to see the powerful data that support this trend. axios.com/nfl-covid-view…

Baseball might be America's pastime but football is its obsession. Data from @Taboola Newsroom's Topic Insights platform shows this month after month. 

Check out <a href="/nrothschild3/">Neal Rothschild</a>'s excellent report to see the powerful data that support this trend.
axios.com/nfl-covid-view…
Fran Berkman (@franberkman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How interested are US news readers in the war? About 27% of all page views in the past 7 days were on articles about Ukraine. For context, the very biggest story we've seen —coronavirus in March 2020 — captured just over 50% of all US PVs for about 3 weeks in a row.

How interested are US news readers in the war? About 27% of all page views in the past 7 days were on articles about Ukraine.

For context, the very biggest story we've seen —coronavirus in March 2020 — captured just over 50% of all US PVs for about 3 weeks in a row.
Sukee Bennett (@sukee_b) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Finding ways to humanize the data is important. “The words you use [in the newsroom] matter, and how you present the data matters. Don’t talk about page views as page views, or uniques as uniques. Those are people on the other end reading.”#ONA22EditorialAI An #ONA22 🧵👇

Fran Berkman (@franberkman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In my many years looking at @Taboola Newsroom Topic Insights, this may be the first time I've seen two science topics dominating readership at the same time. Move over sports and politics🖖

In my many years looking at @Taboola Newsroom Topic Insights, this may be the first time I've seen two science topics dominating readership at the same time. Move over sports and politics🖖
Fran Berkman (@franberkman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

May I present some April @Taboola Topic Insights data? ->The eclipse was the highest PV topic in a calendar month so far in 2024 ->Meanwhile the NFL draft had nearly the same level of readership as the Super Bowl ->Caitlin Clark is the most read about athlete since Travis Kelce

May I present some April @Taboola Topic Insights data? 

-&gt;The eclipse was the highest PV topic in a calendar month so far in 2024
-&gt;Meanwhile the NFL draft had nearly the same level of readership as the Super Bowl
-&gt;Caitlin Clark is the most read about athlete since Travis Kelce
Fran Berkman (@franberkman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We've spent 3 years at Taboola developing a robust personalization product for news sites. Many thanks to our partners Gray Television whose fantastic content and local news teams worked with us through growing pains 🙏 These engagement gains are real! taboola.com/resources/case…

Fran Berkman (@franberkman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

First time I've seen articles about Biden with more PVs than articles about Trump over a 7-day period in Taboola Topic Insights. For scale, the 35M PVs to articles about Biden last week is more than we've measured for that topic any individual calendar month so far this year.

First time I've seen articles about Biden with more PVs than articles about Trump over a 7-day period in <a href="/taboola/">Taboola</a> Topic Insights.

For scale, the 35M PVs to articles about Biden last week is more than we've measured for that topic any individual calendar month so far this year.
Fran Berkman (@franberkman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yesterday's readership of news articles about Kamala Harris accounted for more than 1/3 of the traffic we've seen in the past 90 days. (Via Taboola Terms Explorer)

Yesterday's readership of news articles about <a href="/KamalaHarris/">Kamala Harris</a> accounted for more than 1/3 of the traffic we've seen in the past 90 days. 

(Via <a href="/taboola/">Taboola</a> Terms Explorer)
Fran Berkman (@franberkman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Oct was just the 3rd time this year that Trump didn't get the most monthly readership in @Taboola Topic Insights. The other two: Feb - Super Bowl (Trump was 2nd) April - Solar Eclipse (NFL Draft was 2nd, Trump was 3rd)

Oct was just the 3rd time this year that Trump didn't get the most monthly readership in @Taboola Topic Insights. The other two:

Feb - Super Bowl (Trump was 2nd)
April - Solar Eclipse (NFL Draft was 2nd, Trump was 3rd)
Fran Berkman (@franberkman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

April readership trends on Taboola Topic Insights: 📈 Interest in tariffs doubled 🫥 Shedeur Sanders PVs > Pope Francis PVs 💡 Social Security is a sneaky powerhouse that your news org probably isn't covering enough

April readership trends on <a href="/taboola/">Taboola</a> Topic Insights:

📈 Interest in tariffs doubled
🫥 Shedeur Sanders PVs &gt; Pope Francis PVs
💡 Social Security is a sneaky powerhouse that your news org probably isn't covering enough
Fran Berkman (@franberkman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Charlie Kirk was just the second news topic this year (aside from Trump) to have more than 100M monthly PVs by US readers in @Taboola Topic Insights. The other was NFL Draft with 115M PVs in April.

Charlie Kirk was just the second news topic this year (aside from Trump) to have more than 100M monthly PVs by US readers in @Taboola Topic Insights. 

The other was NFL Draft with 115M PVs in April.