t-online.de - important "port of call" for political news

A representative survey by Infratest dimap has shown that 15 per cent of the interviewed Internet users get their information on current political events from the news portal of t-online.de. This puts Germany’s biggest Internet portal clearly ahead of some other online news portals. The most popular site was Spiegel Online with 19 per cent according to the survey.

In the survey which did not offer a choice of possible answers and was conducted among 1,000 Internet users throughout Germany, t-online.de/nachrichten was far ahead of the online offering of other news providers, such as Tagesschau (9 per cent), ZDF (7 per cent) and N24 (6 per cent).

"That users have such a good opinion of us is an honor and at the same time an incentive for us to continue to provide up-to-date and well founded multimedia news coverage", says Ralf Baumann, Head of Portal t-online.de.

Not only the voting behavior of users, but also the figures speak for quality: According to AGOF internet facts 2009-I, t-online.de/nachrichten is Germany’s news portal with the broadest reach, with 3.23 million users, in front of RTL News (3.07m users), Spiegel Online Politik (2.64m users) and the news offering of Bild.de (2.62m users).

About the news portal of t-online.de The news portal of t-online.de (http://nachrichten.t-online.de) offers the latest information on all relevant topics across five subject areas - Germany, International, Panorama, Knowledge and Weather – as well as interviews and specials, for example on the topics "60 Years of Germany" or "Climate and Environment". Until the federal elections take place in Germany in September 2009, interested users will be able to find reports, background information and surveys here, as well as a "coalition calculator" which shows the respective majorities of the political parties based on the latest survey results. More information: http://bundestagswahl.t-online.de.