Top 30 news sites show positive growth
The list of top 30 global news sites, as measured by unique monthly visitors, contained some good news for the month of January, according to Editor & Publisher.
The list, compiled by Nielsen, showed many sites still sustaining strong year-over-year growth. The Huffington Post, for example, attracted 152 percent more unique visitors in January than it did in January 2008.
While the news is positive for most of the sites listed, many are still struggling to increase online ad revenue to the point where it can cover ad revenue lost elsewhere.
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The list, compiled by Nielsen, showed many sites still sustaining strong year-over-year growth. The Huffington Post, for example, attracted 152 percent more unique visitors in January than it did in January 2008.
MSNBC tops the list in January with 44 million uniques. The top newspaper Web site in the list is The New York Times at 21 million uniques.Only six news sites saw year-over-year declines. The largest was USA Today, which fell 14 percent to 10.5 million.
Other sites that experienced big increases include the N.Y. Daily News Online, up 150% to 7.7 million uniques. The Telegraph in the U.K. increased its monthly unique visitors 139% to 5.1 million.
While the news is positive for most of the sites listed, many are still struggling to increase online ad revenue to the point where it can cover ad revenue lost elsewhere.
To read more, click here.
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