July 9, 2015

Trump got 48 percent of political media coverage last week

Washington Post

According to Zignal Labs, the Washington Post’s analytics partner, 48 percent of all the conversation about 2016 – across social and regular media – was about The Donald last week.

The real-estate mogul had more than 1.9 million total mentions on social, traditional and broadcast media from June 30 to July 6. By comparison, the candidate who received the next highest number of mentions, Hillary Clinton, had less than half that at 448,000.

On Twitter, Trump was mentioned about five times as often as Clinton. On TV and online media, the gap was more like two-to-one. Of course, not all press is good press.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Coverage of Trump is not political. Politics requires paid advertising and bribes on votes. Trump is by definition entertainment, like the Kardashians or Betty White.