About
About OnceTopNews
What is the news covering today? OnceTopNews answers that with numbers.
What we do
Every 5 minutes, we tally the articles 27 outlets publish and the views on their YouTube news videos. When many outlets cover the same story at once, we automatically group it into an “event” with a timeline.
Every day’s rankings are saved, so you can look back at any day in the Archive. Every Monday we also publish a weekly report on what people cared about most the week before.
What we don’t do
- We don’t republish news: no article text, summaries or images — every headline links back to the original outlet.
- We don’t speak for any outlet or side: rankings are decided by the numbers alone; we never adjust them by hand.
- We don’t use AI to rewrite news: categories come from each outlet’s own site, and event names are generated from headline statistics.
Where the data comes from
- YouTube: public view, like and comment counts on news channels’ videos (YouTube Data API).
- Bluesky: the official accounts of news outlets — the links they post and the number of likes, reposts and replies (we don’t store post or reply text).
- Outlets: the public web pages of CNN, Fox News, MS NOW, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNBC, Newsmax, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Newsweek, TIME, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Politico, The Hill, HuffPost, Vox, Breitbart, The Epoch Times, NTD, Associated Press, Reuters — 27 outlets in all.
Numbers reflect our tally as of the latest update and change over time. Coverage and views aren’t the same as public opinion as a whole, so treat them as a reference.
Citing and embedding
Media, bloggers and researchers are welcome to cite our rankings — please credit “Source: OnceTopNews” with a link. To put a ranking on your own site, use ; it updates automatically every 5 minutes.
The Once Hit family
OnceTopNews is part of the Once Hit family, along with OnceAccount (account center), OnceEvent (event marketing platform), OncePing (website uptime watchdog), OnceClip (video creation tool), OnceKeeper (collector) and OnceTool (extensions). One account signs you in to all of them.
Contact us
Spotted a wrong number, have a suggestion or want to work with us? Email oncehit.service@gmail.com.