Shareablee Social Scorecard Reveals Top 10 Media Publishers for November 2014

Bleacher Report, The Economist have highest engagement on Twitter

U.S. Media Publishing Category declines for the first time in 2014, down 3 percent

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Dec 04, 2014, 02:20 ET

NEW YORK, Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading social media benchmarking and audience analysis firm, Shareablee Inc., released the monthly Media Publisher Edition of its Shareablee Social Scorecard. Of the Top Ten, Bleacher Report had the highest engagement on Twitter with four times more actions per tweet than the nearest competitor. The Economist led the business category on Twitter with 447 actions per tweet. Hollywood Life had the highest social audience growth (up 18 percent) driving it to the number 8 spot.

Social engagement for the U.S. media publishing category fell 3 percent across all social platforms – the first dip in 2014, largely driven by lower posting on Facebook. In comparison, social engagement across all U.S. brands decreased 2 percent on average, with posting down by 8 percent. In November, publishing properties on social media in the U.S. accounted for 551M actions total (362.4M actions on Facebook, 26.7M on Twitter and 132.1M on Instagram).

The top performing publisher categories ranked by volume of social media actions across all platforms were:

1.    Entertainment (72.31M)

a.    BuzzFeed (10.77M)
b.    People.com (7.31M)
c.    Billboard (6.30M)

2.    General News (34.62M)

a.    The Huffington Post (10.56M)
b.    TIME (3.83M)
c.    The New York Times (2.56M)

3.    Teen (19.14M)

a.    J-14 Magazine (8.00M)
b.    M Magazine (4.41M)
c.    Seventeen Magazine (3.08M)

Fastest growing category by volume of social media actions was Men's Interest (up 8 percent) driven largely by Esquire, GQ and DETAILS, which grew 71 percent, 45 percent and 43 percent, respectively.

Shareablee Publisher Scorecard
Top US Print and Online Publishers
November 2014

Publisher

Parent Company

Total Actionsi

Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
(000)

Unique Engaged Audienceii

Facebook

(000)

% Actionsiii

Facebook

% Actions

Twitter

%
Actions

Instagram

Industry Average

633

317

69.53%

5.13%

25.34%

1

National
Geographic

National Geographic Society

69,947

2,750

7.56%

0.17%

92.28%

2

BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed, Inc.

10,770

6,176

79.99%

11.74%

8.26%

3

The Huffington Post

AOL

10,562

5,685

93.58%

4.45%

1.98%

4

J-14 Magazine

Bauer Publishing

7,996

2,867

98.53%

1.21%

0.26%

5

Bleacher Report

Turner Sports

7,912

3,192

66.60%

25.87%

7.53%

6

People.com

Time Inc.

7,310

3,615

88.73%

3.88%

7.40%

7

Billboard

Prometheus Global Media

6,303

3,678

80.14%

14.56%

5.30%

8

Hollywood Life

PMC

5,542

2,994

95.17%

0.78%

4.05%

9

Us Weekly

Wenner Media

4,887

3,000

90.69%

2.62%

6.68%

10

Entertainment Weekly

Time Inc.

4,869

3,591

91.76%

6.51%

1.73%

i

The total actions metric includes post-level likes, shares, favorites, retweets and comments.

ii

Unique engaged audience metric references the number of people who engaged with the brand on Facebook.

iii

% actions metric notes the portion of actions (likes, shares, favorites, retweets and comments) attributable to a platform.

The Shareablee Social Scorecard: Media Publisher Edition is made available at the beginning of each month. Customers can access the full scorecard that includes breakouts across publishing categories or subscribe to receive the monthly Shareablee Social Scorecard.

About the Shareablee Social Scorecard
The Shareablee Social Scorecard: Media Publisher Edition provides advertisers with a data-driven assessment of publishers' social media power.

About Shareablee Inc.
Launched in 2013, Shareablee Inc. is the leading authority on audience intelligence, competitive benchmarking and actionable insights for social media. The official social media analytics partner of comScore, Shareablee measures a census of global properties and collects brand audience and engagement data across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Tumblr, LinkedIn, YouTube and Pinterest.

Media Contact:
John Lee
TallGrass Public Relations
1.917.653.3444
[email protected]

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