Catch News continues on the growth trajectory, grows over 70% last quarter

Within a span of 18 months, Catch News has registered 70% growth in last quarter with 5 million UVs as per Comscore Dec’16.  Catch News is comfortably ahead of other established players in this niche segment which includes sites like Huffpost, Quint, Scroll, Mid-day, ForbesIndia, thenewsminute, ForbesIndia etc. As per latest Comscore report, Catch News Android users have grown by over 30%.


Catch News was launched in June 2015 with a focus to deliver unbiased content with high quality news-on-the-run for an engaged yet busy young generation. And ever since it has been creating content for the deeper consumer of news with long formats supported by videos, podcasts, graphics and text to create both substance and speed; depth and diversity. Recently Catch News has been nominated amongst the top 3 news content website by IAMAI.

The content ranges over everything from hard news to hard rock.
After continues growth throughout last year Catch News has become the fastest growing news website in recent times taking over many contemporary websites in less than 1 year of its launch. Within 18 months the product has witnessed phenomenal  audience traction. 
Our growth story also includes Catch Hindi in its success route. Launched in Jan 2016, Catch News Hindi has witnessed phenomenal growth in OND quarter with 142% growth in UVs and 113% growth in Sessions, which now stands at 6.5 million.

COMSCORE - DEC'16

Users

CATCHNEWS.COM

5104

HuffPost India

3125

MID-DAY.COM

4224

SCROLL.IN

2787

THEQUINT.COM

2101

DailyO.in

1883

thenewsminute.com

2808

FORBESINDIA.COM

335

*web + mobile

With this audience growth and reach Last few months Catch News witnessed many new advertisers on board including Airtel, British Airways, Yatra, Jeevansathi, Government of India to name a few and recently added  Go Air  to its prestigious list of clients.

Catch News recently entered into strategic partnerships with Reliance Jio and Yahoo with the intent to scale its content network reach
Catch News partnered with IIC for their prestigious annual event "A festival of the Arts" which was attended by the crème la crème of social,  art and culture personalities. It was the first that IIC enlisted a media partner ( http://www.catchnews.com/iic/ )
Media Partner with Mirzya (film): Catch News was associated with the latest Bollywood movie, Mirzya, as its Digital Media Partner. Catch News got exclusive interviews with  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (https://goo.gl/ntAQuc ), Harshvardhan Kapoor and Saiyami Kher (https://goo.gl/7N5Uuo ) (https://goo.gl/twxgIz ).  Catch News reached out to it’s readers for Mirzya by using combination of elements such as FB mentions; Live Tweeting ; Fun activity with the cast of Mirzya and lot more.

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