gdgt, the new consumer electronics site founded by Peter Rojas and Ryan Block that was first announced in September, hasn’t even launched yet. But it’s already managing to to draw millions of viewers for its coverage of major events, like Apple’s WWDC keynote on Monday, which saw 4.7 million views in less than two hours.
Of course, gdgt’s coverage was no match for that of our own CrunchGear’s, but for the site to already be attracting such a sizable audience is an impressive feat. The small team managed to handle the huge traffic spike using Rackspace’s Cloud services.
The impressive traffic stats aren’t much of a surprise: Rojas and Block have built up large followings during their time running Engadget and Gizmodo, two of the most popular gadget blogs. Up until now gdgt has primarily consisted of weekly podcasts from Rojas and Block, and we still don’t know what form the final site will take. It sounds like we’ll find out soon though — tucked away at the end of the WWDC live blog is a note that gdgt will finally be launching in the next few weeks.
I’ve been anticipating the gdgt launch for awhile now. Happy that we’ll finally see what Block and Rojas (two really smart and cool guys) have up their sleeves.
im sure its just more of the same, but this time on their own site
If website not launched, they got any patent so that goog cant copy?
That’s a great comment. Of course, it’s no match for my very own comment, but it’s still an impressive feat.
I followed the WWDC keynote and gdgt and they did a fantastic job of covering it. There was just a glitch where the page stopped refreshing but one F5 later it was back on track and everything was smooth there from.
Waiting to see how the website turns out when it finally launches.
Honestly I think why they did so well was because you didn’t have to press F5 when on other sites you did.
Have they hinted at what the site is going to be? They said not a tech blog…
They’ve said it will deal with consumer electronics, and it will not be gadget news blog. Other than that, they haven’t really said anything.
I imagine there will probably be a more in-depth analysis of the industry, like a TechCrunch for gadgets, but that’s just speculation on my part. Could be a reviews portal for all I know, but I doubt it.
Glad my comment about how I didn’t care for CrunchGear’s coverage was removed…I mean, we wouldn’t want any criticism to possibly learn from for next time, would be?
anything to take visitors away from gizmodo is good with me. Why does anyone go there?
It surely can’t be another engadget etc, its taken 9 months so far. It would take days to pick a blog theme and start posting. Must be something big.
gdgt.com will be mainly user-generated gadget reviews, I guess
however i think that software (not gadgets = hardware) is becoming more and more important as 50,000 aps in app store shows…
So what happens to engadget and gizmodo? Are they competing with their own sites?
They are both gone from their original sites.
Could not agree more Comic Blogger. That is why we decided to launch http://AppStruck.com.
Cool stuff. Where do you get the stats from?
Imagine the traffic numbers when it officially launches.
congrats! i don’t like the domain name though
Generating Wind or Hot Air.
Congrats on the following. It is a good start to in branding your name. Not such a bad Twitter either.
Congrats to them on the launch. But I just dont think another site like this is going to take off. It is going to be a lot of work for them this time.
Rojas you need to sort out that RCRD LBL site first cause its terrible and has no traction at all!