Sports Illustrated scores with swimsuits (duh)
Cory Bergman February 22nd, 2008
Over the years, Steve Safran used to joke that Lost Remote should change our online business model to the most successful of them all: porn. (Well, I guess it would the second most successful, behind Google.) We resisted the urge, but today there’s more proof that there’s nothing like barely-dressed models to attract massive audiences. Since debuting its annual swimsuit edition on Feb 12th, SI.com has racked up (sorry) 228 million page views — an average of 42 pages per unique user. That’s up 41 percent over last year.
This screen shot is our meager little attempt to sex up the site.
7 Comments Add your own
1. Safran | February 22nd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
“Joke?”
2. Jason | February 22nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
This deserves some important web research this weekend…
3. Rob | February 22nd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
It’s a little late, but I’m putting my vote in that this should be the new Lost Remote logo / masthead.
I know having talent in the logo is annoying, but this is a worthy exception guys, dontcha think?
4. Safran | February 22nd, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Rob - that’s actually a picture of Liz Foreman. Agreed - it should be in the LR masthead.
5. Allen | February 22nd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
That’s it!! Anchor babes wearing bikinis!! Tech savvy 20-somethings WILL return to television!!!
6. tdc | February 23rd, 2008 at 8:53 am
told you awhile ago that ‘i miss liz foreman’.
7. Rick Ellis | February 23rd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
It’s not just SI.com that gets traffic from this. i think people searching for the images is the reason that a photo gallery of SI swimsuit covrs that we did last year got about 150,000 page views last week.
Ah, you’ve got to love search engines….
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