It beats “El Mundo” by more than a million users and “El País” by two

EL ESPAÑOL extends its leadership in November. In the first two weeks of the month, this newspaper achieved 14.02 million unique users, according to the recommended GfK DAM metric.

The fact that made this newspaper once again establish itself on the platform of journalism in Spain It was exceeded by more than 1.2 million visitors the worldwhich occupies second place.

The feature extends to 1.9 million per case Country Who now occupies third place on the podium.

Reflects data for the first half of November The power of EL ESPAÑOL And how its audience is gradually recovering after the cyber attacks it suffered in August and September.

In fact, if the data is confirmed at the end of the month, it will have topped the audience rankings in 32 months of the past three years. A never-before-seen path for a local digital newspaper in Europe.

Never before has a newspaper been able to reach first place without the support of the print edition.

It ranks in the top 5 of the press in Spain 20 minutes With 11.87 million believers and Confidentiality With 11.85 million. Any technical equivalent with A ABC It recovers by amassing 11.24 million followers in the first two weeks.

Spanish too At the top of the average daily audiencein a technical draw with the world. A relevant fact because it shows the audience’s loyalty to the media, making it highly valued by advertisers.

November is an information-intensive month, with the peace agreement between Israel and Palestine led by the United States, the start of the previous electoral campaign in Extremadura or the various exclusive news revealed by EL ESPAÑOL about alleged corruption in the government environment, the most prominent of which are José Luis Ábalos, Koldo García and Santos Cerdán.

With these numbers, this newspaper confirms its leadership at the forefront of journalism in Spain, while… Investigations are still active into the cyber attacks that occurred in the last days of August and the first days of September.

The reported events consist of an attack on five fronts:

-A Identity theft Via a malicious proxy and SEO poisoning attack.
– Relying on credentials to send Phishing emails.
– False complaints Widespread attacks against our posts on social networks.
– Manipulation Facebook pixel (goal).
-A Scam attempt To the newspaper management via email.

The chronological coincidence of all these alleged criminal attacks against EL ESPAÑOL could lead to the hypothesis that there was some kind of coordination through the development of a plan agreed upon by its authors.

The attacks also led to a Reputation risk For Spanish. We also consider the possibility that they may be associated with the editorial line of our newspaper, and represent Attack on freedom of expression And our company’s freedom of information.