The LA Times website recorded 127 million page views in the month of July alone, shattering its old record of 120 million. The site was well on track to break its previous record, but when the earthquake hit, the number of page views increased even more. There are full lists of the top viewed articles, [...]
Slated for a fall launch, Hearst Magazines is joining with longtime syndication partner MSN to create a food site, Delish.com. Hearst’s Digital Media unit will own, build and edit the site, with sales and distribution handled by MSN. MediaWeek (July 8, 2008)
WSJ.com has enjoyed a 94% increase in online traffic compared to June 2007, according to the company’s internal traffic numbers. The site had 16.2 million unique users this June, with total page views up 45% to 150 million. MediaWeek (June 2, 2008)
U.S. News & World Report will be dropping to a biweekly frequency starting in 2009, ceding its troubled category to larger rivals Time and Newsweek. With the decline of their print editions, the newsweeklies are putting a lot of stock in their websites, as they expect their audience to grow due to the instant updates [...]
Wowowow.com is a new website aimed at women 40 and older. Lily Tomlin, comedian, actress, and contributor to the website, says the targeted audience is women who, because of their age, have been the object of suppression for many decades. And this new website will hopefully be incredibly liberating for both those who contribute to [...]
The move comes on the heels of other distribution deals with MSNBC and Yahoo, and amidst indications that the Condé Nast’s digital strategy of topic-based websites that do mirror the publisher’s printed magazine brands may be paying off. Traffic to CondéNet websites increased 16% in October to 9.4 million unique U.S. visitors from the same period last [...]