Digiday: Breitbart ‘Dominating’ Social Media and ‘Punches Above Its Weight’
Breitbart News is leading the media in coverage of the run up to the 2016 presidential election, closely behind The Huffington Post in terms of total Facebook shares.

Breitbart News is leading the media in coverage of the run up to the 2016 presidential election, closely behind The Huffington Post in terms of total Facebook shares.

LAS VEGAS — Donald J. Trump has shaken up his presidential campaign for the second time in two months, hiring a top executive from the conservative website Breitbart News and promoting a senior adviser in an effort to right his faltering campaign.

From the Wall Street Journal: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is bringing two new managers to the top of his campaign in a bid to recover ground he has lost in recent weeks. Stephen Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News

Breitbart’s Managing Editor and Social Media Director, Wynton Hall, joined Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 to discuss the recent launch of Breitbart’s Instagram account.

Monday on NPR’s “On Point,” while discussing what will Fox News will look like without Roger Ailes, Breitbart News editor Matthew Boyle said Breitbart News Network has been experiencing “explosive growth.” Boyle said, “Yeah look, we have seen explosive growth

Democrat Hillary R. Clinton leads among Empire State voters with 48 percent, compared with 34 percent for Republican nominee Donald J. Trump and 6 percent supporting Libertarian Gary Johnson and 4 percent for Green Party nominee Dr. Jill Stein, according to the Breitbart/Gravis poll conducted between Aug. 4 through Aug. 6 with 1,717 registered voters in the Empire State.

SocialTimes, a blog by Adweek, lists Breitbart News among the Top 10 U.S. media publishers in July 2016 based on social media engagement. Breitbart had the largest month-to-month growth out of any publisher.

Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, holds a 1-point lead over Democrat Hillary R. Clinton in Georgia, according to a Breitbart/Gravis poll conducted Aug. 4 through Aug. 8 of 1,604 registered voters in that state.

Breitbart News smashed company traffic records in July, generating 192 million pageviews, 31 million unique visitors, and 89 million sessions. Last month’s metrics pushed the conservative news giant to over one billion pageviews so far in 2016–a 28% jump in 30 days from last month’s previous record high.

Breitbart News Network announced Sunday it is launching a new partnership with Gravis Marketing — the Florida-based polling firm recognized July 1 by Bloomberg Politics as the most accurate for the 2016 primary season — to create the Breitbart/Gravis poll series.

New polling data shows that it would be virtually impossible for Hillary Clinton to win the general election if the Republican nominee were able to frame the immigration issue in populist terms that emphasize reducing the overall amount of immigration into the country and protecting jobs, incomes, and benefits for the domestic population.

VICE produced a special on Breitbart News Network at the Democratic National Convention that shows the political team at Breitbart News in action.

After booting Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos — possibly the worst blunder in social media history — and alienating his 400,000 followers, Twitter announced that its user growth is dead, and that its cash flow estimate was cut by $80 million for the latest quarter.

“This is the biggest assault on the free press we have seen in modern times,” declared national radio host and InfoWars.com chief Alex Jones.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Shortly after getting suspended on Twitter, Breitbart Senior Editor Milo Yiannopoulos took the stage at a “Gays for Trump” event here in Cleveland. “There is a war on,” Yiannopoulos said. “And it is a culture war.” The

Liberal comedian Eric André interrupted Breitbart News’ live coverage of the Republican National Convention Monday afternoon, stepping onto the set during a live broadcast in what was ultimately a failed attempt to troll Breitbart California Editor Joel Pollak and senior investigative reporter Lee Stranahan.

The Republican National Convention is the biggest political event of the year (so far), and Breitbart News is bringing you the best coverage — including live video.

Yesterday, we launched our very first limited edition T Shirt: The Breitbart Border Wall Construction Co.

Police arrested Breitbart News reporter Lee Stranahan Saturday night as he was covering a protest over the death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

In June, Breitbart News achieved record website traffic, generating 24.5 million unique visitors, 68 million visits, and 150 million pageviews.

Julia Ioffe writes an extensive profile in Politico of Stephen Miller, the senior policy advisor to Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump. In Ioffe’s telling, Miller and media sites like Breitbart comprise the intellectual vanguard of the insurgent populist nationalist movement shaping the 2016 election.

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage told SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily that Breitbart News was one of the few bright spots in generally dismal media coverage of the Brexit debate.

My good friend and Breitbart colleague Mike Flynn died unexpectedly on Thursday.

On Breitbart News Saturday, Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle and a series of high-profile national security experts will provide the first in-depth look media-wide at what happened in Orlando—and more importantly, why.

Breitbart News was the biggest publisher of political content for the months of May and June, with a lead of nearly 2 million more interactions than the second place Huffington Post.

The White House feigned ignorance about President Barack Obama’s speech “glitch” in Elkhart, Indiana last week when he was trying to attack Donald Trump but appeared to lose his train of thought.

Robert Bluey, editor-in-chief of the Daily Signal, appeared on Fox News earlier today to discuss Facebook’s meeting with conservatives this afternoon and his involvement in it.

Neil W. McCabe has joined Breitbart News Network as a new political reporter, Breitbart News Network announced on Monday.

On Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 from 7-10 pm ET on Sunday night, guest host and Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle will interview Paul Ryan primary challenger Paul Nehlen

Anonymous sources at Facebook’s news team have confirmed to Gizmodo that, in addition to suppressing conservative news sources, the company suppresses stories about itself while artificially promoting stories about the Black Lives Matter movement.

A former curator of Facebook’s trending news section has revealed that the company purposely suppresses content from blacklisted outlets including Breitbart News, despite Breitbart remaining in the top 25 most engaged publications on the social network for 6 months in a row.

In a series of tweets sent out Thursday evening, Randi Lee Harper, an “anti-abuse” activist with a notorious reputation for abusing people on social media, declared that she was setting up a Twitter blocklist for anyone who followed a “Breitbart related” account.

The first episode of The Milo Yiannopoulos Show was a roaring success on iTunes. Be afraid, SJWs.

A planned meetup of Breitbart readers & writers at The Chapel, an event space and restaurant in San Francisco, was cancelled after the venue owner objected to the presence of Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos at the event. Chapel owner Jack Knowles

Conservative movement professionals in Washington, D.C. are plotting to form a “blacklist” of Donald Trump supporters that they can kick out of the movement, never to return.

Social media analytics firm NewsWhip reports Breitbart News was the 14th largest Facebook publisher in the world for January 2016, ahead of Yahoo, The Hill, and MTV.

Four above-the-fold headlines at the Drudge Report on Friday linked to stories and videos that focused on the role of Sen. Ted Cruz’s faith in his campaign for president.

Hadas Gold of Politico has published the transcript of an audio recording of the moment when Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields was grabbed at a Donald Trump campaign event.

On his radio show Wednesday, Glenn Beck blasted Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report and Breitbart News as “nothing but shills” for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, but Beck stated that he and his staff have “proven” themselves “not to be shills” for Ted Cruz.

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Tom Brokaw, the former anchor of NBC’s “Nightly News,” discussed the role anger has played in the 2016 election cycle on both sides of the political spectrum. Brokaw traced it all the way back the
