Comments on: ABCNews.com has ‘unprecedented’ April

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:49:51 +0000

Just about any major national site offering political news is experiencing tremendous gains. I’m not sure why people are doubtful. It’s the heat of the campaign season.

By: tdc

tdc — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:30:01 +0000

i only took issue with wisn because it was the centerpiece of an argument made by someone else.

i meant no disrespect to my friends in milwaukee.

but the larger issue of an accurate count does remain… H/A’s ceo was quoted at the annual shareholder’s meeting a day or so ago as saying “nearly 2 million viewers visited our (30) properties TODAY”.

that would equate well over 50 million per month.

hmmm, nielsen sez 17 million per month over the entire SEVENTY ib properties.

damn straight somebody better learn how to count.

By: Steve Josco

Steve Josco — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:36:42 +0000

Hmmm. Compete’s numbers are way, way off for us. Our visitor numbers are about six times higher than they’re reporting.

So, it’s a lot like NetNielsen, which is also off by wide margins.

Will someone ever find a method for accurately measuring these things, or is it impossible?

By: tdc

tdc — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:59:35 +0000

using the graph on compete for wisn v. jsonline is worth a look, too.

By: tdc

tdc — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:55:16 +0000

if it’s “news to me!” (or anyone else) just click tdc.

thanks for the archives, cory!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:49:16 +0000

News to me!

By: tdc

tdc — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:59:41 +0000

i’d explain in detail, but was hoping to use all the info in the “online debate” i was challenged to oh-so-many months ago (betcha thought i forgot, huh?).

suffice it to say the charts pretty much speak for themselves.

By: lex

lex — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:08:33 +0000

tdc, what does that mean?

By: tdc

tdc — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:01:43 +0000

compete just published april’s numbers- it’s hard to find many up double digits, but i can show you plenty that are down over 40%.

By: Rocker

Rocker — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:24:51 +0000

Actually fleetwood, if 22 million uniques are real, they’d be getting in the game.

By: fleetwood mack

fleetwood mack — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:22:38 +0000

what’s that a fifth of cnn.com and a quarter of msnbc.com?

would that abcnews did its site as well as its press releases.

would that.

By: skeptic

skeptic — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:40:02 +0000

Hey Rocker … “Implausible?” “No evidence?” Wonder why? May be it has something to do with those four magic words: “according to ABC’s measurements?”

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:56:13 +0000

What? ComScore sucks? “Shocked, shocked to find such things going on here!”

By: Rocker

Rocker — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:24:50 +0000

I’m a little suspicious. Beyond “Debate-gate” undoubtedly driving a ton of traffic, I just haven’t seen anything on the site or on the air that would account for this. Suspect it has something to do with some kind of distribution arrangement…widgets? Co-branded video players with affiliates? That would be noteworthy in and of itself, but the idea that the ABCNews.com site itself is all of a sudden a runaway destination hit seems implausible. There’s also no evidence to support this in Comscore…yes, I know Comscore sucks but it would almost certainly directionally at least catch a big move like this.