Media Week: How long can News International hide its ABCe figures?
Thursday, 27 January 2011, 17:59
"Under the current industry agreements, the James Murdoch-led operation has just two more months of grace before either pulling out of ABC membership altogether, or successfully instigating a change to the way the association operates."
New Media Age: Paywall publishers abandon old audience measures
Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 09:19
"News International has suspended its membership to web traffic measuring firm ABC Electronic following its announcement it will introduce paywalls in June."
Media Week: Change in ABCe reporting makes Mail Online most popular website
Friday, 26 February 2010, 08:32
"[ABCe] had made as its the headline number in its monthly multi-platform report, the daily average number of browsing devices accessing a website. It defines this as the sum of each day's traffic, divided by the total number of days. Unique browsers (ABCe has dropped the term 'unique users') are not de-duplicated between days."
Malcolm Coles: ABCe: Please sort out your terrible website
Monday, 9 March 2009, 19:00
"For a body in charge of standards, its own website is a disgrace. It's so bad, it's embarrassing." (via Paul Bradshaw)
Guardian: Web traffic falls for regional newspapers
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 19:15
"Today's six-month multiplatform report for regional newspapers … shows average web traffic for dropping for almost all the ABC audited regional newspaper websites, in contrast to online traffic for national newspapers, which has grown exponentially over the past year and reached record highs across the board last month."
Press Gazette: Regional ABCs: MEN tops regional web traffic table
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 19:08
Finally some real data on regional newspaper website traffic: "manchestereveningnews.co.uk, had 1,127,654 monthly unique users in the second half of 2008, according to the new data released today."
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."
paidContent:UK: … October ABCe …
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."
