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Category Archives: News and Media

Kelowna Fires Spur Visits to Local News Websites

August 05, 2009

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,... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 04:19 PM | (5) | (0)
In Categories News and Media

News Organizations Miss Opportunities to Gain Search Engine Traffic

November 07, 2008

Following from a blog post from my colleague from across the pond, Robin Goad, I looked at where consumers went in the final weeks of the election when searching for election coverage. The analysis reveals that news and media websites... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:09 AM | (4) | (0)
In Categories News and Media

Election Day News Event of the Year - 24 Hour Networks Win

November 07, 2008

Election Day has been the biggest news event of the past three years with Americans visiting News and Media websites in droves and in particular websites of 24-hour cable news networks. Visits to News and Media Web sites reached their... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 07:52 AM | (0) | (0)
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McCain Catching Obama in News and Media Traffic But Deep Divide Persists

September 03, 2008

The media is accused of a liberal bias and of being all too kind in coverage of Barack Obama. What can clickstream data tell us about this bias and the red-blue divide in America? First let's look at how much... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 09:04 AM | (0) | (0)
In Categories News and Media

Digg Acquisition Rumors Take 3

July 23, 2008

Rumors are once again circulating that Digg is going to be acquired, with Google once again named as the potential buyer. A few weeks ago I provided some updated statistics on Digg's clickstream, showing that the site now sends almost... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 07:05 AM | (1) | (0)
In Categories News and Media

Digg Traffic to Print Media

July 15, 2008

Apparently since Digg has been making efforts to extend from tech to other types of news, there have been more stories from mainstream media and fewer from blogs on the homepage. In March, I did a post showing that Digg... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 10:03 AM | (1) | (1)
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Mixx Traffic Sources Explain Traffic Levels

June 03, 2008

Mixx.com, the social news website supported by many big mainstream media brands, is in the news for releasing results that show its traffic has more than doubled in May. I was following the thread on this story this morning on... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 09:20 AM | (0) | (0)
In Categories News and Media

Content Aggregation is King?

April 18, 2008

A colleague forwarded me a fantastic article from Ad Age "It's Web 3.0, and Someone Else's Content is King". The article is worth a read for anyone in the content business. The author, Matthew Creamer, suggests that Web 3.0 will... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 07:58 AM | (5) | (0)
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Obituaries Alive and Well Online

April 03, 2008

I noticed earlier this week that the #2 website visited after websites in the News and Media category is Legacy.com. Legacy.com is an obit website. The table below shows the top 10 downstream websites from the News and Media category... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:07 AM | (0) | (0)
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Yahoo! Buzz Catching up to Digg.com

March 17, 2008

This morning I was interested to see the thread on Techmeme's homepage about the success so far of Yahoo! Buzz. The RedWriteWeb story provides statistics on traffic from Yahoo! Buzz to some of the publishers involved in the Beta. ReadWriteWeb... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:45 AM | (5) | (0)
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The Scot Heard Round the World - The Scotsman and Overseas Newspapers

March 10, 2008

Last week The Scotsman published comments made off the record by Samantha Powers, an aide to the Obama campaign. I am married to a journalist so we spent much of the weekend soul searching with other journalists about the ethics... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 09:00 AM | (2) | (0)
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Digg, Stumbled Upon Is there Room for Yahoo! Buzz

March 04, 2008

Last week, Yahoo! announced the launch of Yahoo! Buzz as a social news site. I wanted to share some statistics on news aggregators and profile Digg and Stumble Upon to see whether there might be room for another social news... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 07:57 AM | (2) | (0)
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