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It's actually a sleeper hit [1][2]. The Guaridan seems to be the anomaly.

>Publishers are also paying increasing attention to Apple News, which added push notifications as part of a redesign last year and now delivers significant traffic thanks to the fact that it comes pre-installed on hundreds of millions of devices.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/16/15314210/instant-articles-...

[2] http://digiday.com/media/duopolys-shadow-apple-news-finding-...

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> It's actually a sleeper hit [1][2].

That's not the impression I get from reading both articles. Some publishers like Mic seem to be still in a honeymoon phase with Apple News, but there's a lot of criticism similar to Instant Articles. "Being committed to" and "spending a lot of time" doesn't equal to a financial success for publishers.

I follow Media Twitter pretty closely. Apple News has become a significant driver of traffic for a lot of publications. This contrasts to when it launched when no one thought it would amount to anything.

Here's a few more stories

http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/after-a-slow-start-apple-ne...

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/australias-public-broadcast...

https://digiday.com/media/apple-news-the-telegraph/

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