There are a lot of news and I think there is one crash after another happening but the main problem is bitcoin price. People got out of bitcoin to move into altcoins and most of newcomers were comming from this story of "bitcoin got at 20.000$ , will it get 100.00$ " or stuff like that.
90% of random people who heard of cryptocurrency from tv/ news/facebook etc. just know about bitcoin. As they see bitcoin price dropped by half in 1 month they are not intersted. I think if we want a short term grow in the market we need to move back to BTC, else we just have to wait for the masses of people to educate themselves on crypto, which may take 1-2 years ;p