Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

There is also a BBC World News America channel but its most recent video is from 2008. There is an MSNBC.com profile (called msnbcReporter ) that has not been updated since 2008. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? are changing.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Search Engines 34% of the public now use search engines to find news at least three days a week, up from 19% in 2008. The content on search engines and social media gets a little lost among all the stats and charts so I thought I’d summarize that data here. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

million in April 2008 (source: Omniture). Keeping pace after an 80% reduction in staff is a good sign, although we don’t how well they monetized the April 2009 traffic compared to April 2008. In April, its first full month of operation, seattlepi.com had 4.3 million unique visitors, up 1.6% Total page views for the month were 37.3

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

For a social media presentation at the Publishing Business Conference earlier this year I surveyed 12 major magazine sites that Define works with, and found that in 2008 social media referrals ranged anywhere from 0.6% Even just a year ago the majority of news sites were barely dabbling with things like Twitter – now most have Twitter mania.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 25, 2009

The best measuring stick for August 2009 is August 2008, not the months that preceded it. Major stories that emerge (such as Michael Jackson or the health care debate ) can bring large spikes in search traffic, but it’s common to see the numbers drop after May and not pick up again until September.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 2, 2010

I looked at referral data for 2008, 2009 and 2010 to-date and for comparison also included Facebook and Digg. Alternatively if anyone is willing to share their figures publicly please leave a comment below. Thanks for your comments. So what percentage of total site traffic came from Twitter and the other social sites?

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