Post by Rickster on Jan 29, 2016 11:46:23 GMT -6
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I have to tell you I absolutely love this. As a webdesigner and webmaster you have to notice the lack of moving graphics, photos, adverts, compared to the other sites on the net. It is very minimalistic by any measure of webdesign yet incredibly successful but any measure. Of course I love the shear amount of page views in comparison to the main stream media. His site is so simple to navigate, read, and view in any browser his competition is befuddled at his following for such a low cost. Brilliant...
If you have never been to Matt Drudge's website for news go to the Drudge Report
"Time Warner, owner of CNN and the sports-based Bleacher Report, came in with 14.8 billion; Yahoo, with 10.3 billion; and Time, Inc., with 10.2 billion.
This is where Drudge and his famous Drudge Report enter.
Time Warner, which has boasted top-ranked status as a go-to news source for more than a decade, is still beating Drudge on page views by about 5 billion – but that’s somewhat of a comparison of apples to oranges, of a company with several products versus an individual with a single, solitary site.
But look at CNN versus Drudge, and the comparison is a bit fairer.
CNN Network, across all its various channels – from entertainment to global news – averaged about 1.9 billion monthly page views in 2013, CNN reported. And as another glimpse, in August 2015, CNN touted 1.7 billion views from both desktop and mobile readers.
Still, as Politico reported in mid-2015: “The Drudge Report is the leading source of referral traffic … for many of the top news organizations in the country … In 2014, DrudgeReport.com was the No. 1 site of referral traffic to the Daily Mail, CNN, Fox News, Roll Call, Breitbart, The New York Times, National Journal, USA Today, Associated Press, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and Politico, Intermarkets found. Another unique aspect for Drudge is that 87 percent of its own traffic is from readers going directly to DrudgeReport.com and staying there for an average of 30 minutes.”
In other words, CNN and other news sites wouldn’t have the high page view numbers they have were it not for Drudge.
But that’s not all.
CBS Corp., owner of Cnet.com, and NBC Universal, two of America’s long-standing mainstream media organizations, had 8.8 billion and 9.5 billion page views, respectively. But Drudge had 8.5 billion, and compared to CBS and NBC, which own more than one product, he only has the single site.
"
This is where Drudge and his famous Drudge Report enter.
Time Warner, which has boasted top-ranked status as a go-to news source for more than a decade, is still beating Drudge on page views by about 5 billion – but that’s somewhat of a comparison of apples to oranges, of a company with several products versus an individual with a single, solitary site.
But look at CNN versus Drudge, and the comparison is a bit fairer.
CNN Network, across all its various channels – from entertainment to global news – averaged about 1.9 billion monthly page views in 2013, CNN reported. And as another glimpse, in August 2015, CNN touted 1.7 billion views from both desktop and mobile readers.
Still, as Politico reported in mid-2015: “The Drudge Report is the leading source of referral traffic … for many of the top news organizations in the country … In 2014, DrudgeReport.com was the No. 1 site of referral traffic to the Daily Mail, CNN, Fox News, Roll Call, Breitbart, The New York Times, National Journal, USA Today, Associated Press, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and Politico, Intermarkets found. Another unique aspect for Drudge is that 87 percent of its own traffic is from readers going directly to DrudgeReport.com and staying there for an average of 30 minutes.”
In other words, CNN and other news sites wouldn’t have the high page view numbers they have were it not for Drudge.
But that’s not all.
CBS Corp., owner of Cnet.com, and NBC Universal, two of America’s long-standing mainstream media organizations, had 8.8 billion and 9.5 billion page views, respectively. But Drudge had 8.5 billion, and compared to CBS and NBC, which own more than one product, he only has the single site.
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If you have never been to Matt Drudge's website for news go to the Drudge Report