Posts with tag: traffic
Nielson / Comscore traffic numbers vs. reality
If it wasn’t clear by now, I find discussing traffic numbers pretty passe and gauche (always have). Yes, Engadget is at or near the top of the heap in tech news — but as an editor, to me, that’s not really what’s important. The numbers are an effect — not a cause — of reputation, [...]
Engadget: now AOL’s largest iPhone magnet
We don’t usually get very granular about traffic stats (I find that conversation kind of trite and even a little gauche), but you can imagine my surprise when the following iPhone usage chart hit my inbox this week. (Okay, I admit, I wasn’t that surprised.) Throughout AOL’s extensive and heavily trafficked content network, Engadget has [...]
Quote: Engadget drives 14x more clicks than TechCrunch
Spark Capital VC Bijan Sabet quoted: “We’ve had a fair share of press releases that have gone out on the wire and I don’t see much return from that. We had one investment company get picked up on Engadget and got a 14:1 return versus a mention on TechCrunch.” There’s no way you could extrapolate [...]
Engadget moves to 2nd place? Not quite!
Gotta love Denton’s showmanship and ability to spin, the man’s a master of what he does. Unfortunately, in his post today about Gizmodo overtaking Engadget, he got a number of facts wrong, not the least of which being that Engadget’s moved to the number two slot. Granted, that mostly had to do with the fact [...]
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