Coverage tracker
The most covered news stories, 19 October to 25 October 2026
FTMQ Creators reads 3,472 headlines from 290 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first. This week is still running; the numbers are updated every hour.
- 1YouTube Shopping partners with AliExpress to expand global affiliate opportunities
8 outlets · first: PR Newswire, Tue 06:56 UTC · Top Stories
- 2TikTok restores ad account for Musk documentary following ban error
6 outlets · first: Mashable, Sat 18:22 UTC · Platform News
- 3Apple schedules Pro and Tell launch event in Los Angeles for October 28
5 outlets · first: 9to5Mac, Mon 16:02 UTC · Creator Tools
- 4New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion penalty
4 outlets · first: Business Insider, Wed 18:11 UTC · Platform News
- 5Meta blames Claude AI tool after briefly suspending No Kings Instagram account
3 outlets · first: Business Insider, Sun 00:38 UTC · TikTok & Shorts
- 6Taika Waititi confirms his Star Wars film is on hold
3 outlets · first: Variety, Sun 23:39 UTC · Notable Creators
- 7SpaceX and Tesla Form Committees to Review Potential Corporate Merger
3 outlets · first: Business Insider, Tue 21:48 UTC · Top Stories
- 8Amazon MGM and United Artists Greenlit Untitled Denzel Washington Thriller
3 outlets · first: Deadline, Tue 22:15 UTC · Platform News
- 9Disney Plus sets Japanese supernatural horror series Night Tales Club for 2027
3 outlets · first: Deadline, Wed 00:00 UTC · Platform News
- 10Disney plus and Hulu greenlight Glee reboot series from Ryan Murphy
3 outlets · first: The Wrap, Wed 12:00 UTC · Platform News
First to the story
Outlets that had the most of the week’s widely covered stories before anyone else.
- Business Insider3
- Deadline2
- PR Newswire1
- Mashable1
- 9to5Mac1
- Variety1
- The Wrap1
Busiest outlets
Headlines published in the feeds we read.
- Variety249
- Deadline244
- Mashable225
- Business Insider187
- The Hollywood Reporter184
- Polygon138
- MarketWatch122
- The Wrap121
- Gizmodo108
- Fast Company100
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Source: FTMQ Creators coverage tracker, 19 October to 25 October 2026, https://creators.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-10-19
How it is counted: every report FTMQ Creators wrote that week is matched with the headlines from the outlets we follow that are about the same event (they share its names and its less common words), published within a day and a half of it. Aggregators that repeat other outlets’ headlines are not counted. Each outlet counts once per story; the first is the earliest such headline. Only outlets with feeds we read are counted, so this measures breadth of coverage, not every report there was.