The New York Times: 2 Million iPhone Apps Downloaded

Consumption of news on mobile devices is on the rise. At The New York Times, there were 60 million mobile views in April, nearly double the number from April 2008. Beet.tv reports.

The paper gets about 10 million views per month on the iPhone alone, a Times spokesperson told Beet.tv and Times Wire, the Times iPhone application has had nearly 2 million downloads.

New Nielsen numbers find CNN is by far the biggest player with 11.6 million unique mobile users. Second is msnbc.com with 3 million, The New York Times with 2.4 million, the Wall Street Journal with 1.7 million and the Washington Post with 700,000. (Nielsen reports just uniques not total views.)

emily | 9:55 AM | Random Stats |
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