Adam Sherk

JANUARY 25, 2012

The rise of Reddit and the steady decline of Digg have been well documented. Just recently Reddit announced that its traffic has more than doubled in less than a year (to 2.07 Anecdotally we’ve all seen Reddit gain in prominence at a time when Digg has struggled to maintain its relevancy. million visits in 2009 to 22.7

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 23, 2013

To get a better sense of the situation I pulled StumbleUpon referral figures from 2010-2012 for a group of 47 news and content sites that we work with at Define Media Group , primarily magazine brands. With that in mind I also pulled 2010 data to see if YoY performance for 2011 vs. 2010 had been better.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Beyond Facebook Insights: Useful Facebook Analytics Tools. 5 Good Ideas for News Media Facebook Pages. Publisher Survey: Reddit Traffic Way Up, Digg Way Down. The Facebook analytics tools post is actually from December 2011 but since it was a top performer this year I’m letting it make the list.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk How to Identify Your Own Top Trends by Adam Sherk on December 22, 2009 Yesterday Facebook shared its Top Status Trends of 2009 , providing insight into what terms most commonly occurred in users’ status updates. main profiles, personas, individual staff members, etc).

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Marquerite Buley January 25, 2010 at 6:40 pm I just started using Twitter not too long ago, since then I’ve begun to love it. Very helpful as I only used a couple of these previously. I personally found that Google Trends tends to be a little more sensationalistic than the others.

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