The data
The List

Behind the Numbers

The methodology and themes that emerged in this year’s list.
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The Most Engaging
Stories Archives


39 million

Pieces of Content

419 billion

Minutes of Engaged Time

Why Chartbeat assembles a list of most engaging stories.

Chartbeat’s global partners rely on our content analytics suite to show them what their audience is reading in real-time and over time. We help inform decisions that elevate the meaningful stories being produced by the brightest minds in the world.


How we compiled the 2020 list.

We evaluated more than 39 million pieces of content, totalling 419 billion minutes of Engaged Time, which is the total amount of time visitors spent actively reading pages across our network. Stories are tagged by three formats — Articles, Infographics, and Live Blogs — reflecting the variety of coverage we saw this past year.


Behind the Numbers

The methodology and themes that emerged in this year’s list.
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The Most Engaging
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The data

Fearless.

The Most Engaging Stories of 2020

Fearlessness thrived in a year of global unrest, with journalists risking it all to give us the narratives that would not only restore our livelihoods in the present, but give us hope for the future.


Behind the Numbers

The methodology and themes that emerged in this year’s list.
Learn more

The Most Engaging
Stories Archives



Behind the Numbers

The methodology and themes that emerged in this year’s list.
Learn more

The Most Engaging
Stories Archives


Total Engaged Minutes

320,261,947,059