Via Publicitas: Newspaper Web Sites Average More Than 67 Million Visitors Each Month in 2008; Web Audience Grows 8.6 Percent in Last Year’s Fourth Quarter Average monthly unique audience figures for newspaper Web sites grew by nearly 7.3 million in 2008 to 67.3 million visitors, an increase of 12.1 percent over 2007, according to a [...]
From John Drinnan's piece in the Herald today about BusinessDay moving under the Stuff umbrella, here's the latest NeilsonOnline uniques for NZ's business sites. "Over the past 15 weeks Nielsen Online Market Intelligence counted the average weekly unique browsers to business sites. They were: nzherald.co.nz/business: 187,000, Stuff Business: 136,000, National Business Review: 37,000.
ReadWriteWeb posts about Technorati's latest breakdown of the blogosphere and disagrees that the figures show blogging has become mainstream.
Ouch: a picture of a notice saying 'Olsson's will no longer carry newspapers other than the Washington Post and USA Today due to difficulty with distribution'.
Gulp. In the, not-very-good-news-for-newspapers category comes a survey from Denmark which was picked up by the E-Media Tidbits bloggers on the Poynter Institute site. The survey found that Danes aren't too bothered about the long-term survival of newspapers, as the response to the following statement demonstrates.
My former colleague at the Telegraph in London, communities editor Shane Richmond, writes a surprisingly restrained blog post noting that the Telegraph overtook the mighty Guardian in the April ABCe audience figures.
Nytimes.com and the Financial Times have both picked up traffic to their sites since dropping their paywalls but there hasn't been a corresponding rise in ad revenue, according to Silicon Alley Insider. A couple of interesting comments on the SAI piece.
This is worth a look if you're a news-hungry Twitter fan. It's a list of news organisations posting updates to Twitter.
Roy Greenslade does a piece on research that confirms what we already know: fewer people are buying newspapers. But it also shows that fewer people are consuming news full stop.
Wondering how to get teenagers interested in news? Here's a few insights from a US report. 1. They won't come to you so you have to go to them 2. If something catches their eye they'll take a look, but they won't go looking for news.
Monday, February 9, 2009
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