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By: Why did Newser’s traffic fall off a cliff? » Nieman Journalism Lab

Why did Newser’s traffic fall off a cliff? » Nieman Journalism Lab — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:01:54 +0000

[...] while Politics Daily has been praised for amassing a huge audience in its first few months, the majority of that traffic comes from the site’s corporate parent, [...]

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Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:04:59 +0000

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By: Kathy Adaminco

Kathy Adaminco — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:48:38 +0000

Impressive. This is AOL? Surprised. What is Yahoo doing as it related to covering Politics?

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Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:14 +0000

[...] recently saw AOL’s Politics Daily site surpass POLITICO in unique viewers, according to a June 20 TechCrunch article. Beyond writing for The Capitolist and CJP these days, Murphy is also a frequent commentator on CNN [...]

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PoliticsDaily melampaui Politico dengan cepat | kurungsiku — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:49:30 +0000

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By: jackie

jackie — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:03:38 +0000

Considering Politicsdaily is on AOl’s homepage, of course they are going to get reasonable traffic. You could put a 404 page there and still get a million uniques if not more. You only have to look at Propeller.com. As you may recall Propeller was really the old Netscape, then the site made it on Aol’s home page…uniques spike to 5-7 million uniques (can’t remember exactly but was in that range) and then they were taken off the home page….opps…traffic was cut more more than half very quickly. Today, Propeller.com is at about 1mm uniques. This is exactly the same situation….so far.

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Posts about Michael Arrington as of June 22, 2009 » The Daily Parr — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:40:03 +0000

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Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:42:10 +0000

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By: Karl Desmond

Karl Desmond — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:26:36 +0000

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By: Brad Houston

Brad Houston — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:14 +0000

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By: Ted Stewart

Ted Stewart — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:53:39 +0000

Zach — of course in the first month traffic is going to be from the large AOL Audience…as AOL reaches over 100 Million people a month and almost 70% of the entire Internet audience…..that is the advantage they have….and therefore their addressable non-AOL audience is only 30% of the total web audience in the U.S……question I think you are asking and is more important for the future of AOL is if the site can thrive on its own like their other niche sites (Engadget, Urlesque, Spinner, FanHouse, Asylum, etc) a year or more later. Time will tell but I have to say regardless of outcome, the strategy is a smart one. They are taking advantage of the disruption in media. I will be keeping on it on them vs Yahoo and MSN and others. First time in a while I have started to pay attention to AOL….back to the future.

By: Zach Seward

Zach Seward — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:02:46 +0000

Thanks, Insider. I’m generally skeptical of all the traffic-estimating firms, but they’re pretty good on relative measurements. And, sure, Comscore is counting all AOL properties, which is relevant. But I was looking at AOL.com, which includes subdomains like AOL News, because that’s where PoliticsDaily’s traffic is coming from. I think that’s an unsustainable position, but they’re young, and there’s time to change. That’s all.

By: Zach Seward

Zach Seward — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:53:50 +0000

Well, I think most evidence, including the Quantcast chart I linked to above, show a significant decline in AOL's traffic, but the point is that not all uniques are created equal. PoliticsDaily will only succeed if grows organic traffic. I'm sure they're trying, and more power to them, but the 60% figure is reason to be skeptical.

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Andrew Golis » Blog Archive » links for 2009-06-21 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:00:59 +0000

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Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:59:11 +0000

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By: Simone Michelle

Simone Michelle — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:34:49 +0000

I like the site. Just found myself reading a number of articles. Seems not to be liberal or conservative as I found items on both sides of the aisle. I found some writers i Know from the newspapers they used to write for. Still will go to Politico but I will add this one as well.

By: why not

why not — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:07:39 +0000

Facebook and Myspace are completely different than AOL. You idiot. Yahoo makes money. And I’m positive that microsoft’s online sites pull a profit on their own as well.

By: why not

why not — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:03:00 +0000

check out compete’s graph on aol’s traffic. Their year to year for May 08 and May 09 is almost identical.

By: political junkie

political junkie — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:23:37 +0000

Politicsdaily and Politico aren’t rivals, despite what the first sentence of this blog post says. The only thing they have in common is the word “politic” in their URL.

Politicsdaily looks like it’s trying to compete with Newsweek or Time or a newspaper or god knows what. Nobody seriously interested in politics is going to waste time reading Politicsdaily. Then again, nobody with a brain has anything to do with AOL.

By: led panel

led panel — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:25:23 +0000

looks great ..!

By: Juan Moore-Thyme

Juan Moore-Thyme — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:06:54 +0000

PLEASE understand that nobody visits a site like this on purpose. They see a headline that catches their eye on aol.com, like “Obama clashes with Republicans,” and the link takes them to this site. They would not identify themselves as political junkies. They won’t remember the name of this site. They won’t come back on purpose. They will return via the same method–something catching their eye on aol.com. Sure, a large audience can be generated in this way, but lets be clear: it’s not a true competitor to a site like politico in terms of reaching and engaging a mass audience interested in political news, and therefore it’s not attracting the kind of people a lot of advertisers in this space want to be reaching.

Here’s a tip for how to tell whether a site like this is attracting vertically-interested users, or just a place where a firehose like a portal homepage is sending lots of traffic: Look at the overlap in audience between this site and another in its category. There is almost zero overlap between politico and this site. If it were truly attracting self-identified political junkies, there would be a lot of overlap in audience.

By: Paramendra Kumar Bhagat

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:22:20 +0000

All print magazines should go digital and global.

By: Zach Seward

Zach Seward — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:23:19 +0000

Yeah, that makes sense. I’m interested in their strategy, too, just skeptical of its sustainability as AOL continues to decline. One-time readers aren’t readers at all.

By: Larry Kanter

Larry Kanter — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:15:36 +0000

nice – very nice

By: Roger Curtis

Roger Curtis — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:10:03 +0000

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