Sohu News mobile app achieved 100 million users this May; but now, Tencent News surpassed Sohu News becoming the best mobile news app by the number of unique visitors and MAU.
During a 10-week period from 2 June to 10 August 2014 in China, a study from EnfoDesk shows that Tencent News and Sohu News apps are the top two mobile apps in news category by total number of unique visitors and MAU, with average weekly UV of 60.93 million and 56.47 million respectively.
The study analyzed traffic from popular Chinese mobile news apps including Tencent, Sohu, Toutiao, NetEase, Phoenix, Sina and other news apps.
The UV growth of the top three Chinese mobile news apps (Tencent, Sohu, Toutiao) were driven by the crash of Malaysia Airlines in the territory of Ukraine while Netease, Phoenix, Sina had no significant fluctuations.
Tencent News had 94.13 million monthly active users during the period studied, which ranked the top, followed by Sohu News (86.02 million). Netease had 12 million MAU, surpassing NetEase and ranking the third while Phoenix news is at the bottom of the list.
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