Observer: Look again and Fleet Street’s disasters may only be on paper
Sunday, 23 November 2008, 13:52
Peter Preston: "Mail Online's startling growth still only added up to £9m in revenue last year. But halfway to salvation is much better than stuck in the starting blocks - and when Mr [Murdoch] says that his Wall Street Journal will take $100m in net service subscriptions and another $100m in web advertising this year, you can glimpse a future beginning to happen."
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Thursday, 20 November 2008, 17:26
Robert Andrews: "For fans of the monthly urinating contest that is ABCe’s online news stats, the latest results are much the same as usual: everybody won, but some more than others." Superb.
Observer: Wapping displays a lack of joined-up thinking over the internet
Sunday, 26 October 2008, 11:46
Peter Preston: "The two [online] front-runners [Guardian and Telegraph] have ploughed huge money into development and integration, bringing newsrooms and journalist teams together to mount a powerful, constantly updated service. But where's the Times in all this?"
Observer: Are papers in freefall? Not if they innovate
Sunday, 19 October 2008, 11:45
Peter Preston: "Sometimes, amid encircling gloom, it's wise to set benchmarks longer than a week last Friday. Always, there are choices to be made - or not made. And usually (perhaps, maybe) innovation is its own reward. A Times drop of under 20,000 in five years isn't systemic collapse. A Guardian surge online that brings in more than 23 million unique users a month on top of a million-plus print readers isn't carnage."
Journalism.co.uk: FT.com ‘explodes’ with 250 per cent rise in unique users
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 14:08
"According to FT.com internal figures, page views on the site yesterday were up 300 per cent and unique users up 250 per cent compared to figures for the same date last year. … FT.com's figures follow a report in the BBC's in-house magazine Ariel, which claimed the BBC's business pages recorded their best ever traffic after reporting the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers."
Wednesday, 2 July 2008, 05:56
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Matt Wardman: "Anybody who thinks that any web traffic measuring process (even the “gold standard” ABCe version) can meaningfully distinguish differences between competing websites of well under 1% has not done their homework."
Sunday, 29 June 2008, 18:01
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Strangely, the IoS neglects to [barely] mention[s] the Independent's debut figure in a review of the ABCes.
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 13:01
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"The Independent is to relaunch its website next month [before Christmas] but it is unclear whether the newspaper publisher will still release its first ABC Electronic user figures before 2008."
Monday, 22 October 2007, 14:56
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"The first audit of an Irish newspaper’s online readers in expected early next year, while some online newspaper and magazine sites in Britain are reporting daily numbers for their users."
Saturday, 29 September 2007, 08:18
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Robert Andrews provides the context to Martin Clarke’s apparent u-turn in Media Week: "while we will concentrate on growing our UK readership for the moment, we would be foolish not to take advantage of our following overseas"
Monday, 27 August 2007, 16:16
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Marcus Warren on the Daily Mail’s ABCe performance ("so impressive that it appeared to shock most of the blogging media pudits into silence") and again says Telegraph.co.uk ("TCUK" to its friends, apparently) remains the UK’s top paper site on Hitwise.
Friday, 17 August 2007, 17:42
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"Emap’s Zoo magazine website has seen a big increase in unique users from 524,922 in March to 718,486 in July, according to official ABCe figures."
BBC Magazines joins ABCe reporting
Monday, 13 August 2007, 11:17
When the magazine ABC figures are (officially) released on Thursday, BBC Magazines will become the first consumer magazine publisher to release an ABC Group Product Report combining web site ABCe figures available along with magazine ABC figures.
BBC Magazines will provide online traffic figures for Top Gear and Radio Times.
There’s little doubt that this will provide [...]
Monday, 6 August 2007, 15:01
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Iain Dale, Guido, and Conservative Home now claim about half the traffic levels of the smallest national newspaper web sites…
