Comments on: Lin says its sites rank No. 1 in most markets http://www.lostremote.com/2008/07/24/lin-says-its-sites-rank-no-1-in-most-markets/ Where TV Finds the Future Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:10:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: wtf Time On Site? http://www.lostremote.com/2008/07/24/lin-says-its-sites-rank-no-1-in-most-markets/#comment-1112543 wtf Time On Site? Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:40:05 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/?p=5289#comment-1112543 LOL, time on site is so useless. it's just a nielsen invention to make themselves relevant in the online game so that when broadcast stations start canceling them in about 2-3 years from now they have some sort of business model. And yes, time on site is useless. tell me how you monetize it, tell me when an advertiser last asked about it, then tell me what ad campaign you sold them to take advantage of a user's time on site, and how do you RELIABLY account for when i walked away to get coffee with your page up? LOL, time on site is so useless.

it’s just a nielsen invention to make themselves relevant in the online game so that when broadcast stations start canceling them in about 2-3 years from now they have some sort of business model.

And yes, time on site is useless. tell me how you monetize it, tell me when an advertiser last asked about it, then tell me what ad campaign you sold them to take advantage of a user’s time on site, and how do you RELIABLY account for when i walked away to get coffee with your page up?

]]> By: RR http://www.lostremote.com/2008/07/24/lin-says-its-sites-rank-no-1-in-most-markets/#comment-1110279 RR Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:29:24 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/?p=5289#comment-1110279 Everyone can be #1 in something... wake me up when it matters., like when they are national. Everyone can be #1 in something… wake me up when it matters., like when they are national.

]]> By: Anon for obvious reasons http://www.lostremote.com/2008/07/24/lin-says-its-sites-rank-no-1-in-most-markets/#comment-1102824 Anon for obvious reasons Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:47:07 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/?p=5289#comment-1102824 And that doesn't measure whether their sites are even remotely user friendly either. Or whether they force all the computers in their buildings to have their site as the homepage so as to artificially inflate stats. Not that I work for a LIN station or anything like that. Nope, not me. Couldn't possibly be. And that doesn’t measure whether their sites are even remotely user friendly either. Or whether they force all the computers in their buildings to have their site as the homepage so as to artificially inflate stats.

Not that I work for a LIN station or anything like that. Nope, not me. Couldn’t possibly be.

]]> By: Rob http://www.lostremote.com/2008/07/24/lin-says-its-sites-rank-no-1-in-most-markets/#comment-1102424 Rob Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:32:58 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/?p=5289#comment-1102424 Until there's a universally accepeted metric used by all news and information sites in a given market - that means TV, Radio and Newspapers-based sites - then you can proclaim yourself the Crown Prince of Denmark until you're blue in the face and it still won't make it so. Until there's a universal standard - and most likely there won't be - this is just promotional posturing. Until there’s a universally accepeted metric used by all news and information sites in a given market - that means TV, Radio and Newspapers-based sites - then you can proclaim yourself the Crown Prince of Denmark until you’re blue in the face and it still won’t make it so.

Until there’s a universal standard - and most likely there won’t be - this is just promotional posturing.

]]> By: Rocker http://www.lostremote.com/2008/07/24/lin-says-its-sites-rank-no-1-in-most-markets/#comment-1102183 Rocker Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:11:46 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/?p=5289#comment-1102183 Hitwise data is just shy of useless. You can use it directionally, but trying to make absolute quantitative conclusions based on it is a fool's errand. But directionally, if their claim is correct, you could conclude that they're doing a very good job with their sites. Hitwise data is just shy of useless. You can use it directionally, but trying to make absolute quantitative conclusions based on it is a fool’s errand. But directionally, if their claim is correct, you could conclude that they’re doing a very good job with their sites.

]]> By: Eric http://www.lostremote.com/2008/07/24/lin-says-its-sites-rank-no-1-in-most-markets/#comment-1101258 Eric Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:49:56 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/?p=5289#comment-1101258 And the fact that they feel it important to only base their success on usage compared to other TV sites shows that they do not understand the web. The other TV sites in town are not your competition! And the fact that they feel it important to only base their success on usage compared to other TV sites shows that they do not understand the web.

The other TV sites in town are not your competition!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2008/07/24/lin-says-its-sites-rank-no-1-in-most-markets/#comment-1101171 Anonymous Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:53:34 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/?p=5289#comment-1101171 You can check out their websites here: www.lintv.com/about/television.html Nothing particularly outstanding. You can check out their websites here:

http://www.lintv.com/about/television.html

Nothing particularly outstanding.

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