Following a strong showing covering the local elections, Daily Maverick has broken through 1m unique browsers to its website, for the month of August 2016. With a wide-range of insightful analysis and high profile contributors from across the political spectrum, Daily Maverick’s month-on-month increase outstripped the general uplift most news experienced over the period, registering 1,2m uniques for the August month.

Subscribers to the popular daily First Thing and Afternoon Thing newsletters also topped 40k, equating to over 1,7m distributed email newsletters per month.

Website Stats Source: Effective Measure, August 2016.