Posts Tagged ‘ News and Media ’
A few weeks ago when I posted my blog entry about Facebook being the largest news reader I received a few comments and emails noting that visitors aren’t as valuable if they don’t come back. Advertisers and retailers need some assurance that visitors will return again and again. Hitwise data indicate that visitors from Facebook.com [...][ READ MORE ]
A couple of weeks ago, I did a follow up post on my blog entry, “Facebook Largest News Reader?”. The entry illustrated that Facebook users prefer Broadcast Media while Google News readers prefer Print Media. Several readers requested that I add Twitter to the mix. Twitter.com accounted for 0.14% of upstream visits to News and [...][ READ MORE ]
A couple of weeks ago, I posted an entry about Facebook becoming the largest news reader. Facebook does send more traffic to News and Media sites than Google News but looking more closely at the data, I noticed that the two sites send traffic to a very different list of News and Media websites. The [...][ READ MORE ]
Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read Write Web had an interesting piece suggesting that Facebook could become the world’s leading news reader. A recent Facebook company blog entry encouraged members to set up a news feed on Facebook. Kirkpatrick contends that with a few tweeks, Facebook could become a major distribution force for news content. The last [...][ READ MORE ]
With the devastating earthquake in Haiti on Tuesday, you would expect that traffic to charitable websites would register an increase. The chart below shows daily visits to the top 325 sites in our Community – Humanitarian websites. While search continues to be the #1 driver of traffic to charitable websites, news websites registered the greatest [...][ READ MORE ]
With her new book out, an appearance on Oprah and a controversial photo on the cover of Newsweek, searches for “sarah palin” rocketed last week. Searches for “sarah palin” increased more than 3 fold last week to account for 0.024% of all US Internet searches. Last week, searches for “sarah palin” didn’t reach the levels [...][ READ MORE ]
Two weeks ago we posted on Rupert Murdoch’s threat to block Google from Indexing News Corp. content. While at first it seemed as though Murdoch was merely posturing with hypotheticals, reports continue to indicate that News Corp. is seriously considering choosing Bing as the exclusive “indexer” of their news content. While our data hasn’t changed [...][ READ MORE ]
Rupert Murdoch made an interesting statement in a Sky News interview today, when asked about news content available through search engines such as Google, Murdoch says he would consider blocking Google from indexing News Corp.’s news websites such as the Wall Street Journal. Of course it would naturally follow that I would immediately chart the [...][ READ MORE ]
Americans are fascinated with the story of the ‘balloon boy’ as facts unfold in the highly unusual tale of a boy floating away in a mylar balloon – only to be discovered in the attic three days later. Searches jumped last week for ‘balloon boy’ related news, with ‘balloon boy’, ‘boy in the balloon’ and [...][ READ MORE ]
There is much debate about the need for and business model for local news providers. In looking at Hitwise Canada data on where Canadians have been turning for news of the forest fires in Kelowna BC, I noticed that Castanet.net, a local news website has served as a hub for BC residents looking for details [...][ READ MORE ]
