Comments on: Mixx Growing Fast, But Are They Really More Mainstream Than Digg?

By: Mixx Still Growing (But Not Fast Enough), Relaunches Website | Spin Valley Post

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:09:54 +0000

[...] time we wrote about Mixx, they were touting healthy traffic numbers and boasting the fact that Hitwise report suggested that its users are more mainstream than those [...]

By: Mixx Still Growing (But Not Fast Enough), Relaunches Website

Mixx Still Growing (But Not Fast Enough), Relaunches Website — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:00:23 +0000

[...] time we wrote about Mixx, they were touting healthy traffic numbers and boasting the fact that Hitwise report suggested that its users are more mainstream than those [...]

By: Race And The Web: Going After Niche Markets Or Practicing Digital Segregation? | Black Web 2.0

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:46:33 +0000

[...] of the web overall. Many of the sites we all follow on TechCrunch like (Digg, Techmeme, and Mixx ) were built and launched to service a niche, therfore fragmenting the web making it so we all [...]

By: website design

website design — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:52:06 +0000

I may try it out. After all I am small fish on here. I am lucky if anything I dig gets beyond a count of one.

By: Daniel Eder

Daniel Eder — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:12:10 +0000

I think the only reason mixx is growing is the integration with other sites such as facebook and cnn. not due to its main website visitor growth

By: Yasser

Yasser — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:29:54 +0000

Hockey stick growth right here!

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By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:00:06 +0000

I would love to compare the numbers with Yahoo! Buzz.

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:47:40 +0000

mixx who?

By: Amit Wadhwa

Amit Wadhwa — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:41:45 +0000

I think a much nice comparison is with reddit, according to google trends the 2 are almost even!

By: dumbfounder

dumbfounder — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:13:46 +0000

Just strike a deal with John Deere to advertise on your site. You would be easily worth $1m in the US with such a well defined demographic, not sure about NL.

By: Brian Kissel

Brian Kissel — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:22:47 +0000

Agreed, OpenID makes it much easier to register and login on Mixx. You can use an existing AOL, Yahoo, Facebook or one of several OpenID providers including Google, Flicker, Live Journal, MyOpenID, Wordpress, etc. You can see a summary of Mixx’s decision to implement OpenID at http://www.janr.../casestudy-mixx

For anyone who doesn’t already have OpenID on their site, there is a free service from JanRain called RPX Basic at http://rpxnow.com

By: S!ick

S!ick — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:08:22 +0000

Mixx supports (Yahoo!) OpenID…it’s easier to log into (I don’t need to remember my Digg username and password): sold!

By: roman

roman — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:06:44 +0000

Funny that “they say they have a more diverse audience.” That’s not a good thing, an advertiser wants a highly targeted audience, not a diverse one.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:59:16 +0000

StuartFoster — most people who visit Digg do it without a Digg account. you can see this by reading up on their numbers. They get like 20 million people but only have 3 million accounts. i bet Mixx sees the same thing and so if you go to mixx without being signed in, those people do see the Front Page. they dont’ see the Mixx page
I use Digg because it drives traffic to my blog. Its plain and simple. I don’t know anyone who uses Digg for any other reason. its a giant game and makes me laugh when someone says they want to buy it for 100million dollars.

By: Jay Fowler

Jay Fowler — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:06:24 +0000

And yes I have a ton of typos in that comment.

By: Jay Fowler

Jay Fowler — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:05:01 +0000

I have to agree with Stuart. However Mixx prides themselves on the Your Mixx page. It actually being a blend of your interests. At SXSW Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson actually held an interview while walking down the street saying they we thinking about doing the same with Digg. Making a users landing page customizable that is. Here is where I agree with Stuart, where Mixx thinks that Your Mixx should be the landing page, I disagree with them. You may have different interests than I do, so I do think the “Your Mixx” page is important but, how would I see the something else outside my realm of thought that might interest me? People discover and learn new and cool things everyday. So making the Popular page on Mixx be the landing page would be a good idea. You can still check “Your Mixx” for your own relevant interests, but it does not lead you to new discoveries. I for one am I die hard Mixx user. I have found myself visiting my your Mixx page less and less and the Popular page more and more. Besides the Popular page is where POPurls grabs their Mixx feed from.

By: Stuart Foster

Stuart Foster — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:21:35 +0000

Until Mixx creates a centralized page that is accessible (forced upon) all users…you will not see the kind of traffic driving power that Digg can deliver. Until this happens most users, bloggers and marketers will proceed with caution…and have a one foot in one foot out philosophy. The tech and functionality of the site are there. Wish more people would use it.

By: Tinus Guichelaar

Tinus Guichelaar — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:48:34 +0000

I’ve got 2 million visitors, with 57 million pageviews, per year. Where’s my million dollar valuation?

By: Andy Gongea

Andy Gongea — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:53:33 +0000

I like mixx.com – the site is nice from the visual perspective and also the content is not bad. I can see why they have such a good trend.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:50:26 +0000

Interesting that more of their traffic is from India than the US, according to Google Trends.

By: Mike @ WannaDevelop.com

Mike @ WannaDevelop.com — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:25:30 +0000

I trust google trends — they usually get it right

By: teraom

teraom — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:02:54 +0000

Excellent growth due to the Cnn love. i remember signing in a long time back, but did not cash enough on the little traffic i got and hence opted out.

A million visitors is quite a large number.

Whats with the stats? female or old?? I am just looking at humans interested in my article. how does it make any difference???