The monthly ranking was posted on a respected media industry resource, meedia.de. Topping the charts are the leading German news resources Focus, Bild and Die Welt. Other leaders are news and magazine sites such as Spiegel, Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine and The Huffington Post.
News sources are ranked according to the number of interactions their German language sites elicit among social media users (likes, shares, tweets, etc.)
Compared to September, the volume of likes, shares and tweets involving Sputnik material soared by 26 percent.
The ranking is based on an analysis of several thousand German language online media resources and blogs. For details, go to the website 10000 Flies.
10000 Flies was launched by the Dusseldorf-based online agency Active value GmbH and journalist and data analyst Jens Schröder, who has compiled rankings for years. The company's active value system of registering user activity and behavior is used to analyze media outlets' activity on social networks daily.
Sputnik (sputniknews.com) is a news agency and radio network which maintains multimedia news hubs in dozens of countries. Sputnik broadcasts via its websites, analog and digital radio, mobile apps and social media in over 30 languages. Sputnik's newswires offer 24-hour coverage in English, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese.
