Posts Tagged ‘ News and Media ’
As the Occupy movement passed its two month anniversary last week, Occupy-related sites (e.g occupywallstreet.org) experienced a resurgence in market share of visits. The initial peak in searches for variations of “occupy” and traffic to Occupy-related sites occurred in the first two weeks of October, as web-users sought general information about Occupy protests, the movement’s [...][ READ MORE ]
While some Americans learned the news Sunday night via Twitter or the announcement from President Obama, curiosity and questions continued well into Monday. The daily visits to News & Media websites reached a three year high for the second time this year on Monday, May 2, 2011 following the announcement of the death of Osama [...][ READ MORE ]
NBC has scaled back its planned coverage of the Royal Wedding in order to avoid potential “viewer fatigue”, an interesting change of strategy given the success & interest of The Today Show’s wedding-focused blog, “The Windsor Knot”. Though the official Royal Wedding site captured the greatest share of relevant search traffic last week, MSN and [...][ READ MORE ]
After months of speculation, the paywall for The New York Times went live at 2pm on Monday, March 28th, which limits online readers (non-print subscribers) to 20 articles each month. For smartphone and tablet applications, only the top news section will remain free and access to other sections will need a subscription. To understand the [...][ READ MORE ]
Following the announcement of the end of Glenn Beck’s Fox News program, there has been discussion of the impact of Beck’s declining ratings on the decision. Indeed, ratings for The Glenn Beck Program fell to an average of 1.9mm in January 2011 from their 2.8mm peak in January 2009. Although ratings for The Glenn Beck [...][ READ MORE ]
Many in the US woke to the news of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan on Friday morning along with tsunami warnings for Hawaii and the west coast. As news and videos of the natural disaster spread, visits to the News & Media category hit a 3 year high on Friday, March 11th and [...][ READ MORE ]
It’s already acknowledged that recent incidents in Charlie Sheen’s life and his subsequent barrage of interviews have created an online feeding frenzy. Indeed, Sheen has won the Guinness World Record for fastest time to reach one million followers on Twitter – he had gained over 100,000 followers without publishing a single tweet. On the same [...][ READ MORE ]
With the start of the protests and demonstrations in Egypt, visits to the English Al Jazeera website have increased as many in the US turned to the Middle Eastern news source for coverage. The volume of visits increased 6x on January 28, 2011 as compared to the previous day and as of February 15th, remain [...][ READ MORE ]
We Canadians are notorious for our weather talk. Last week’s heat wave in Ontario and Eastern Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal in particular, drove our obsession to new heights. Weather websites accounted for more than 1 in every 100 Canadian internet visits. Canadians were twice as likely to vistis Weather websites last week than were [...][ READ MORE ]
Rolling Stone Magazine last week published a tell-all account that led to the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal. On June 23, the day after the article appeared online, www.rollingstone.com became the #402 ranked website among All Categories of websites, up from #5,094 the day before the article appeared. Market share of Internet visits to the [...][ READ MORE ]
