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StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Adam Sherk

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. Related posts: Pinterest Traffic to Magazine Sites Up 141% But Figures Still Modest. What Types of Sites Get the Most Links?

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Publisher Survey: Reddit Traffic Way Up, Digg Way Down

Adam Sherk

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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Why Reddit Continues to be Relevant

Idaconcpts

Reddit is (was?) So why did these Digg users embrace Reddit as their new social news website home? Because Reddit users (or Redditors) are very protective of their site and do everything they can to ensure it’s not spammed, scammed, or otherwise abused. Digg’s main competition. click for larger image). click for larger image).

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Stop Reading the News

Ari Herzog

Instead, I visit Twitter and Reddit and peruse the trending topics. Related Stories The Magazines are Coming How I Consume the News Facebook, LinkedIn, and Me. This is what Thoreau wrote in 1854: I don’t learn anything in the news. It’s the same content regurgitated with changed names and places. That’s boring.

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Bloggers: Would You Rather Be First Or Right?

SocMed Sean

It could be argued that blogs are becoming the modern equivalent of newspapers and magazines, but are usually slanted more toward the editorial views. Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? So, can we just apply the same tenets of journalism to blogging? –Sean Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Email this to a friend?

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This Blog Is Dead

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Let''s forgo the irony that this piece was published on a blog and read this: "Instead of blogging, people are posting to Tumblr , tweeting, pinning things to their board, posting to Reddit , Snapchat ting, updating Facebook statuses, Instagram ming, and publishing on Medium. Blogs are for 40-somethings with kids. blog comment.

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Katie Couric Will Give Us The Internet That We Deserve

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Newspapers, magazines, radio and television companies are all scrambling to figure out how to be more like the Internet, digital and active media to make themselves more relevant, while these online companies are developing television shows, buying newspapers and poaching television celebrities. It''s a strange world. active media.

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