📰 Media & Journalism Jun 17, 2026 · Alice Brooker

Biggest UK website owners: Meta, Alphabet and Bytedance increase dominance

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Biggest UK website owners: Meta, Alphabet and Bytedance increase dominance
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Publishers are losing ground against tech platforms in the UK as Meta and Alphabet increase their dominance of online media, a new Press Gazette ranking of UK online audience for April 2026 reveals.



Our ranking of the biggest website owners in the UK by audience, based on Ipsos iris data, shows Meta and Alphabet significantly growing their already dominant positions.



UK internet users spent 122 billion minutes with Alphabet-owned websites (including Google and Youtube) in April 2026, up 14

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