Adam Sherk

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Mobile Visits Account for 40% of All Traffic for Publishers

Adam Sherk

I started with the sites surveyed in my post on search and social traffic and then added several more newspaper, magazine and content sites, for a total of 70 brands. Travel 32%. I was curious where things currently stand so I pulled mobile traffic figures from SimilarWeb for a variety of well-known brands. Entertainment 52%.

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Survey: Pinterest a Great Source of Links for Publishers. What Types of Sites Get the Most Links?

Adam Sherk

The surveyed group includes the magazine sites in my Pinterest traffic survey plus quite a few more that we work with at Define Media Group. Travel 30,622 1,457. Travel 49,431 1,586. Pinterest Traffic to Magazine Sites Up 141% But Figures Still Modest. Average Links Average Linked Pages. Food 612,238 12,886.

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29% of the Top 500 Google+ Pages are News and Content Sites

Adam Sherk

6 Travel Channel 26 3,335,575. 30 Motor Trend Magazine 109 1,858,223. 47 Car and Driver Magazine 177 1,441,733. 6 Travel Channel 26 3,335,575. 30 Motor Trend Magazine 109 1,858,223. 47 Car and Driver Magazine 177 1,441,733. 6 Travel Channel 26 3,335,575. 30 Motor Trend Magazine 109 1,858,223.

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Foursquare and The New York Times Archive Would Be a Great Match

Adam Sherk

Foursquare users in Vancouver will have access to reviews, tips and recommendations provided by NYT travel and entertainment writers. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? UPDATE: A few days after I posted this The New York Times and Foursquare launched partnership for the Winter Olympics.

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Why the News Business Isn't Profitable

Adam Sherk

The company has remade itself into a new era media firm by eliminating a lot of the overhead associated with producing content — via Seed.com — and focusing on topics that are more commercial in nature — travel, finance, auto, etc — rather than news. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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