[1][2] 20 minutos, the Spanish version, is distributed by Schibsted and Zeta in Spain.

[4] In Greater Paris, Ipsos and CESP confirmed a circulation of 805,000 with a readership of 2,339,000.

20 minutes claims that its readers are "young urban citizens (15–40 years old) that to a lesser extent consume traditional newspapers."

The French 20 minutes was launched in Paris on 15 March 2002, and spread to 11 other urban areas of France, including, in order of size, the cities of Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice, Nantes, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Lille, Rennes and Grenoble.

[6] The name 20 minutes refers to the amount of time it should take one to read this daily newspaper.