Archant topped the social media charts in today’s ABC Figures, with eight of its titles featuring in the top ten for growth on Facebook.
The North Norfolk News saw its audience increase on the social media platform by 137pc year-on-year for the period ending December 2017.
The East Anglian Daily Times scored an 85pc increase, while another Archant title, the Herts Advertiser, recorded a 61pc rise.
Seven of the company’s titles also featured in the Twitter top ten, although that chart was topped by the KM Group’s Kent Online channel, which recorded a 28c year-on-year increase in the number of followers.
The other groups to submit social media figures for audit were the CN Group, Johnston Press and the Midland News Association.
The full list of Facebook page likes, in order of year-on-year percentage change, is as follows:
| Facebook page | Facebook ‘likes’ | YoY change |
| North Norfolk News | 11,055 | 137% |
| East Anglian Daily Times | 17,394 | 85% |
| The Herts Advertiser | 4,270 | 61% |
| In Cumbria | 595 | 61% |
| Ilford Recorder | 6,655 | 60% |
| Norwich Evening News | 23,056 | 58% |
| Newham Recorder | 7,466 | 55% |
| Ipswich Star | 21,380 | 47% |
| Cumbria Live What’s On | 5,225 | 45% |
| Cambs Times | 3,812 | 45% |
| Islington Gazette | 5,228 | 42% |
| The Reporter | 886 | 42% |
| KentOnline News | 90,459 | 38% |
| Comet | 16,685 | 38% |
| Hackney Gazette | 6,216 | 37% |
| Wisbech Standard | 4,092 | 37% |
| Lowestoft Journal | 13,116 | 35% |
| Whitehaven News | 10,478 | 35% |
| Barking & Dagenham Post | 14,635 | 33% |
| Romford Recorder | 16,500 | 32% |
| Sittingbourne News Extra | 4,674 | 31% |
| Shropshire Star | 42,806 | 29% |
| Welwyn Hatfield Times | 10,908 | 29% |
| Ham and High Express | 2,580 | 29% |
| Hunts Post | 5,457 | 28% |
| Brent and Kilburn Times | 6,711 | 27% |
| Docklands & East London Advertiser | 4,548 | 26% |
| Carlisle Nes & Star | 42,954 | 25% |
| Great Yarmouth Mercury | 25,090 | 25% |
| Kentish Express | 13,576 | 25% |
| Workington Times & Star | 12,585 | 23% |
| The Mail, Barrow-in-Furness | 25,055 | 21% |
| Dartford Messenger | 9,847 | 20% |
| Sheerness Times Guardian | 9,912 | 19% |
| Thanet Extra | 4,029 | 19% |
| Kent Messenger | 32,547 | 18% |
| Hexham Courant | 10,420 | 18% |
| Eastern Daily Press | 88,275 | 16% |
| Gravesend Messenger | 13,003 | 16% |
| YourGazette | 13,413 | 14% |
| Express & Star | 121,821 | 11% |
| East Kent Mercury | 12,507 | 6% |
| The Scotsman | 191,691 | N/A |
| Edinburgh – Evening News | 183,534 | N/A |
| Sunderland Echo & Football Echo | 150,864 | N/A |
| Leeds – Yorkshire Evening Post | 137,675 | N/A |
| Lancashire Post | 93,077 | N/A |
| Portsmouth – News & Sports Mail | 91,752 | N/A |
| The Gazette – Blackpool | 90,169 | N/A |
| Sheffield Star | 88,598 | N/A |
| Northampton Chronicle | 85,433 | N/A |
| Leeds – Yorkshire Post | 63,400 | N/A |
| Ulster – News Letter | 57,517 | N/A |
| Wigan Evening Post | 49,923 | N/A |
| Derbyshire Times | 42,342 | N/A |
| Peterborough Telegraph | 40,708 | N/A |
| Northamptonshire Telegraph | 33,560 | N/A |
| Hartlepool Mail | 29,870 | N/A |
| South Shields – Shields Gazette | 27,258 | N/A |
| Eastbourne Herald | 19,245 | N/A |
| Milton Keynes Citizen | 11,071 | N/A |
| Scotland on Sunday | 5,695 | N/A |
The full list of Twitter accounts, in order of year-on-year percentage change, is as follows:
| Twitter page | Number of ‘followers’ | YoY change |
| Kent Online | 154,749 | 28% |
| Ham and High Express | 19,997 | 26% |
| Shropshire Star | 80,624 | 24% |
| East Anglian Daily Times | 47,554 | 23% |
| EDP24 | 95,134 | 22% |
| Express & Star | 136,800 | 22% |
| Norwich Evening News | 55,393 | 22% |
| Newham Recorder | 9,116 | 21% |
| Islington Gazette | 16,587 | 20% |
| Barking & Dagenham Post | 5,701 | 19% |
| Folkestone & Hythe Express | 2,755 | 18% |
| Docklands & East London Advertiser | 7,914 | 16% |
| Ilford Recorder | 8,749 | 16% |
| KM Sittingbourne | 2,798 | 15% |
| North Norfolk News | 10,448 | 15% |
| Hackney Gazette | 23,575 | 14% |
| Cumbria Live | 9,574 | 14% |
| Wisbech Standard | 3,446 | 14% |
| Cambs Times | 4,813 | 13% |
| In Cumbria | 8,847 | 13% |
| Ipswich Star | 18,554 | 13% |
| Romford Recorder | 15,595 | 13% |
| KM newsroom | 23,925 | 12% |
| Brent and Kilburn Times | 8,130 | 12% |
| EADT Business | 2,115 | 12% |
| Great Yarmouth Mercury | 6,621 | 12% |
| Cumberland News | 11,087 | 12% |
| Hunts Post | 6,573 | 12% |
| The Reporter | 2,550 | 12% |
| Comet | 14,741 | 11% |
| Workington Times & Star | 7,456 | 11% |
| Lowestoft Journal | 6,647 | 11% |
| The Herts Advertiser | 13,795 | 11% |
| East Kent Mercury | 4,336 | 10% |
| The Mail, Barrow-in-Furness | 11,895 | 10% |
| KM Gravesend | 6,577 | 9% |
| Whitehaven News | 7,700 | 9% |
| Welwyn Hatfield Times | 11,034 | 9% |
| Thanet Extra | 6,292 | 8% |
| Carlisle News & Star | 27,389 | 8% |
| Kentish Express | 11,655 | 7% |
| Hexham Courant | 7,838 | 7% |
| Kent Business | 13,340 | 6% |
| Kentish Gazette | 14,550 | 6% |
| EDP Business | 10,456 | 5% |
| EDP Sport | 4,071 | -59% |
| Derbyshire Times | 19,882 | |
| Eastbourne Herald | 11,902 | |
| Edinburgh – Evening News | 137,633 | |
| Hartlepool Mail | 10,529 | |
| Lancashire Post | 60,148 | |
| Leeds – Yorkshire Evening Post | 203,340 | |
| Leeds – Yorkshire Post | 156,255 | |
| Milton Keynes Citizen | 15,831 | |
| Northampton Chronicle | 76,783 | |
| Northamptonshire Telegraph | 14,185 | |
| Peterborough Telegraph | 21,721 | |
| Portsmouth – News & Sports Mail | 77,321 | |
| Scotland on Sunday | 29,718 | |
| Sheffield Star | 153,637 | |
| South Shields – Shields Gazette | 12,514 | |
| Sunderland Echo & Football Echo | 47,544 | |
| The Gazette – Blackpool | 50,859 | |
| The Scotsman | 138,708 | |
| Ulster – News Letter | 36,165 | |
| Wigan Evening Post | 19,867 |
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With the Facebook algorithm change these numbers could look very different in the next audit
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