The Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic has released March numbers for UK newspaper websites. Brightcove customers Telegraph and Guardian saw significant gains. In first and second place, Telegraph.co.uk is doing 8% month-over-month growth coming in at 27.7 unique Internet users and Guardian.co.uk is experiencing 4% month-over-month growth with 26.2 million unique Internet users for March.

A new Nielson/NetRatings report shows Brightcove customers Guardian and Telegraph in the top two spots for most popular and fastest growing newspaper websites in the UK. Both newspapers have recently launched new, ad-supported Internet video channels throughout their websites and are taking full advantage of the Brightcove Internet TV platform to extend their online properties with frequently updated video coverage and original news programming.

This week we are really pleased to be confirming a new deal and our second major signing with a leading European newspaper publisher, the Guardian News & Media, which publishes UK national newspapers the Guardian and the Observer as well as the Guardian Unlimited network of websites.