Mumbai: News18.com, country’s premier multi-lingual digital news platform, cemented its leadership claim by repeating the performance of 23rd May 2019 Lok Sabha election results coverage. It led the coverage of 2019 Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly Election results day on 24 October 2019 with 7.49 million visits, according to Similarweb.
With unmatched speed and accuracy in Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly Election results, News18.com aced the coverage beating top news portals like ndtv.com, timesofindia.com and Indiatoday.in (source: Similarweb worldwide; All Traffic; Oct 24,2019). Ndtv.com received 6.77 million visits followed by timesofindia.com at 4.7 million. Similarweb is an online competitive intelligence tool that provides traffic and marketing insights for websites and is considered an international benchmark in measuring digital traffic.
“We did it again – News18.com is India’s default election destination” says Puneet Singhvi, President – Digital and Corporate Strategy, Network 18. He added,”News18.com Digital’s election results coverage, powered by hundreds of on-ground journalists and supported by cutting-edge product, design and technology, covered the breadth and depth of the elections like none other. Our integrated newsroom set-up alongside our News18 TV news network gives us the local coverage reach critical for growth in vernacular space and an authority that makes us an automatic choice for following news across the spectrum.”