Which News Outlet Won Election Night on Facebook?

While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney battled it out for the Presidential Election, every news outlet battled for engagement on Facebook. PostAcumen analyzed which news outlet won, and how they did it.

For this analysis, we selected five major news outlets and monitored their activity on election day (11/6/2012).

The news outlets were:

  • CNN
  • Fox News
  • msnbc
  • The New York Times
  • USA Today

Going into election day, the pages had a varying amount of fans:

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Real Time Competitive and Industry Analysis: Introducing Monocle!

We’re excited to announce the release of an incredible new feature: Monocle. This feature allows you to understand your competitors, and your industry, in real time.

What you can gain from this new perspective:

  • See which posts are trending in real time
  • Identify quiet, and highly active posting periods
  • Benchmark your posts against the competition,
    and the industry, as it happens

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How To: Post Visualizer

Post Visualizer is a feature within PostAcumen that enables marketers to filter and sort all of the posts that have been analyzed over a chosen time period. The posts can be filtered with a variety of options: Day of Week, Time of Day, Post Frequency, Content Type, Post Length, Asked for Engagement, and Post Success. This insures that you can examine just about any combination of variables.

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