IF you’ve searched for news about Spain recently, chances are you’ve already found your way to our website or social media pages.
In 2025, readers around the world turned to The Olive Press in unprecedented numbers – not because Google told them to, but because this became the place where Spain made sense in English.
Over the past year, The Olive Press was read 8.5 million times, by nearly five million individual readers online, with more than 680,000 returning regularly.
Articles weren’t just skimmed – they were shared, discussed, argued over and passed on, reaching millions more across social media: seven million views in December alone on Facebook!
But numbers alone don’t tell the story.
What readers showed, again and again, was a clear preference: they came to our website for clarity without condescension, insight without hype, and reporting that treated Spain not as a postcard, but as a living, complex place.
What people actually read
The most-read stories of 2025 ranged widely – and tellingly.
Readers followed breaking developments, from national policy changes to regional emergencies.
One of the year’s biggest stories charted the search for a missing former British soldier in Tenerife, drawing over 120,000 views as readers tracked each update.
They stayed with in-depth reporting too: coverage of Spain’s decision to raise the retirement age, the summer heatwave, and an extraordinary nationwide blackout all ranked among the year’s most-read pieces.
And then there were the stories that surprised even us.
The most shared article over the last year – with over 14 million views and 1.1 million shares so far – wasn’t about politics or crisis, but a witty, thoughtful piece linking a Cádiz chirigota with Stephen Hawking.
It travelled fast because it captured something readers recognised: Spain’s ability to be playful, philosophical and human all at once.
That story now joins this archive – not as an outlier, but as a reminder that readers don’t just want information. They want intelligence, curiosity and connection.
A shared place to read Spain
Throughout 2025, The Olive Press was cited and linked by outlets including CNN, National Geographic, the BBC, LBC, El Confidencial, Cadena SER and many others – often because we were first to the story, and fastest with verified updates.
But what matters more is this: readers came back.
They came back from across Spain – from Andalucía to the Costa Blanca, Madrid to the Balearics – and from far beyond it, reading in over 120 countries worldwide.
For many, The Olive Press became a daily habit.
For others, a place to check what was really going on.
For some, simply a way to stay connected to Spain – whether living here, visiting, or watching from afar.
A new chapter
Our new national monthly edition (out this week) marks the next stage in that relationship.
It isn’t about speed.
It’s about perspective.
As we reach our 20th anniversary, it’s about stepping back from the daily rush to look more closely at the stories, places and ideas that shape life in Spain – and why they matter.
This archive is not just a record of what The Olive Press published.
It’s a record of what readers chose to read.
And that choice is what made this moment possible.
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