Comments on: Engadget: 10 million Page Views on iPhone Day

By: ShinyRed » Blog Archive » Blogs, the iPhone and up-to-the minute communications

Tue, 22 May 2007 12:00:12 +0000

[...] interesting to pause and look at just how big the role of blogs was in distributing the news with Techcrunch reporting on Engadget’s record 10 million page views on the day they covered the [...]

By: My RSS Feed Techniques » David Pitlyuk

My RSS Feed Techniques » David Pitlyuk — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:03:54 +0000

[...] be all on consumer electronics. Engadget is a popular site on consumer electronics, so popular it generated over 10 million pageviews on the day Apple announced the iPhone. The site is an excellent source of information, and the feed [...]

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By: Why I Unsubscribed from Gizmodo and Engadget | Routine Order

Why I Unsubscribed from Gizmodo and Engadget | Routine Order — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:06:50 +0000

[...] are more like dedicated newspapers that cover the latest shiny “bling” on the [...]

By: yeah

yeah — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:39:04 +0000

Thats nice.. i love iphone

By: Pete White

Pete White — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:19:40 +0000

Endgadget had by far the best live coverage of the keynote for text and images. Thats why I visited and i’m sure a lot of others did too!

By: thinks

thinks — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:07:30 +0000

iPhone home……

I spent the last few weeks shopping for a new interactive agency at my day job. Throughout the process, each of the candidate agencies has talked about their capabilities addressing the mobile market, all taking about the promise of the market overal…

By: Zerp

Zerp — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:10:32 +0000

I think it is to the blogospheres advantage to cover huge events like the iphone because they get so much more traffic from it. It would be dumb not to cover it.

I mean look at techcrunch!

By: Sam Abuelsamid

Sam Abuelsamid — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:47:51 +0000

A lot of companies are realizing the influence that these blogs have in reaching people who are interested in what’s new. General Motors hosted about twenty bloggers from a variety of sites, not just car sites, at the Detroit Auto Show. It was mostly in conjunction with the Volt introduction, and they set up interviews with various GM executives, and also provided a work room with wifi access and refreshments. All of this generated huge traffic for sites and a lot of publicity for GM

Engadget wasn’t the only WIN site that set records this week either. With the confluence of CES, Macworld and the Detroit Auto Show, Engadget, TUAW, AutoBlog and AutoBlogGreen all had record weeks. Autoblog had 1.5 million hits each on Monday and Tuesday without any liveblogging of a keynote, and AutoBlogGreen that was only started 8 months ago managed twenty times our normal weekday traffic on Sunday following the Chevy Volt intro.

As Jason said on his blog, WIN learned from past experience, and made a major effort to beef up infrastructure, to support the expected traffic. That’s what kept the sites live in spite of the onslaught of traffic. I’m not sure how many writers were at the other shows, but AutoBlog and AutoBlogGreen had a team of seven hitting all the press conferences and publishing stories and photos continuously, and the other sites did the same.

By: 10 Mio Visits bei Engadget at Timo Heuers Weblog

10 Mio Visits bei Engadget at Timo Heuers Weblog — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:43:15 +0000

[...] Techcrunch schreibt, dass die Seite Engadget 10 Millionen Views hatte am Tag, als iPhone vorgestellt wurde. 10mal höher als sonst… [...]

By: Live and Beyond » Blog Archive » Apple Challenges Bloggers Over iPhone Screenshots

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:24:53 +0000

[...] “Since the iPhone announcement earlier this week, Apple has enjoyed a massive wave of free publicity from bloggers. Engadget’s live reporting alone had 10 million page views. [...]

By: Printed Media near to End? | An Expression of Myself Journal

Printed Media near to End? | An Expression of Myself Journal — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:48:37 +0000

[...] According to Techcrunch: Jason Calacanis, the former CEO of Engadget’s parent company, Weblogs, Inc., told me earlier today that the site had nearly 10 million page views on Tuesday when they covered the iPhone announcement – ten times their normal traffic of a million or so page views per day. [...]

By: DG

DG — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:09:21 +0000

All I can say whooosh! and wow’s.

DG…
http://www.ditii.com

By: Just how well did Engadget do last Tuesday? » Ryan Block

Just how well did Engadget do last Tuesday? » Ryan Block — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:27:39 +0000

[...] Business 2.0 published a short piece on Tuesday’s traffic, which led to a Calacanis quote and a Tech Crunch piece and, of course, a digg hit. So I guess now’s a good time to clear up any misconceptions there may be. First: we did DID NOT go down — not for 7 seconds, not even for a second. (We sure as hell did go down last time at WWDC, but not this time. More on that in a sec.) Peter’s quote to Business 2.0 was (and I was there), “We didn’t go down, but if we did, it was at worst 99.9% uptime.” So to be clear: I checked again later with our techs, and we didn’t go down at all. [...]

By: Ryan Block

Ryan Block — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:13:50 +0000

I wrote up a long piece about misconceptions in how well we did (http://www.ryan...o-last-tuesday/) but the jist is: it was more than 10m (w00t!), we jumped by 300-400% in uniques, the Jobsnote only accounted for about 23% of the day’s traffic (and as a side note, AOL referrers accounted for less than 1%).

By: Reg

Reg — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:12:17 +0000

I watched the Engadget feed. They have a reputation for doing good live feeds, partly because they summarize well what was just said on stage, and partly because they actually understand the terminology. I saw many misunderstandings on other popular sites that day about the products’ capabilities.

But you know, you’d think Engadget would be able to afford a camera that didn’t make a black shirt look brown! The pics were atrocious in their color balance.

(Or perhaps the gadget experts are not so good at fiddling with the controls on their gadgets! Peter Rojas admitted on his podcast that he used to use a paper dayplanner for most of Engadget’s existence.)

The worst thing about the Engadget site is the infantile comments. They must share the same demographic as Digg.

By: frank h

frank h — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:43:06 +0000

I had no idea that the top blog was so far ahead of the it’s near neighbors. This really is a good example of how steep the drop off is in the “long tail” of the internet we keep reading about. It would be neat to start seeing some datasets for stats like this on the statistics site techcrunch reviewed a while ago, I forget the name, maybe someone below can mention it.

http://www.dire...ealthsearch.com

By: Brian Lam

Brian Lam — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:35:47 +0000

Hey Michael.
Brian from Gizmodo here. Just to let you know, Gizmodo had about 3.8 million clicks that day, so your estimate of 5x the traffic is wrong. The numbers are public at nickdenton.org, as everyone knows. And you’re a brilliant man, so I wonder if a conflict of interest is rearing its head here. I know you don’t like those.

Also, our site stayed up the entire time, but our multipost layout was a bit more confusing to some than the single page layout of Engadget. We just can’t have a long, multiphoto post load up that many times without eating shit. (We do not have 50 servers hosted by AOL to keep us above water.) Either way, we messed up, and will have to rethink the format for next time.

Gizmodo does link to Engadget once in awhile, specifically the excellent blogger and gentleman Ryan Block’s work. We talk. It’s cool, man.

And I’m sorry my Boss (Denton) hurts your feelings. But I feel like a disclaimer highlighting the personal differences the two of you have (He thinks you’re important enough to write about; you think he’s evil) at the bottom of this post would only help your post’s authority, incorrect numbers aside. (In case you forgot, again:Real traffic stats are public, at nickdenton.org.)

Also, you forgot to mention that Apple graced the Fair but Fouth-Mouthed Lady Giz with a hands on of the iphone. A blog receiving an exec briefing by Apple is unprecedented in their history. To my knowledge, some international press, the WSJ, NYT, Newsweek, and a few other big mainstream press were the only ones who got the love. I was flattered, and happy to know that Apple considers us relevant.

I’d like to think that despite our slightly smaller numbers (Thanks, we didn’t know Engadget was hovering around a million) we have a good deal of influence. Just like Macs and PCs. This hopefully increase as my tenure extends beyond the 6-month mark.

My feet are shuffling, the hands are just warming up. “Rumble, young man, rumble,” is all I hear from Lock and Nick.

Blogging is just so darn Fun.

Yours,
Brian

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:34:59 +0000

Shows how powerful the apple brand is.

By: David P.

David P. — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:02:24 +0000

Hmmm I wonder if Arrington has stock in AT&T or Apple… In the article about Cell Swapper http://www.tech...-is-like-magic/
gives his full endorsement behind this product and leaving Verizon for Cingular.

This article is more about the hype of the iPhone… I think the increase of page views had to do with CES more than iPhone… I am sure that most gadget/electronic news sites had a surge in traffic this past week.

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:22:07 +0000

Wow, I don’t think you could’ve compressed that Engadget logo any more.

By: mercenario

mercenario — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:40:57 +0000

Boing Boing linked engadget that day …

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:55:29 +0000

All I got to say is that engadget has great content!

By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:17:41 +0000

Our apple blog did show 4x the impressions.

Not meant to take anything away from Engadget, but the unique visitor to pageview ratio must have been very high that day

By: Oran

Oran — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:54:14 +0000

“By the time television and newspapers got to the story, the really interested readers were already on to the next thing.”

So true … traditional news outlets’ glacial creep into web journalism is appalling. The web staff in TV newsrooms I’ve worked in are the ugly stepchildren – the “real” journalists snicker at them, and management sees them as data entry clerks, merely transcribing the broadcast stories for the web.

Ignorance of the instantaneousness of live blogged news is especially puzzling, considering TV news’ obsession with “Live Breaking News!” Wise news managers will learn from events like iPhone Day and other heavily blogged events/tragedies, etc. It’s time they abandon their tired, old work flow models that haven’t evolved much since Murrow and his boys dazzled on the Dumont.