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As Google shifts to mobile, its referrals to news sites keep growing
A shift in the way Google views and ranks web pages may be sending more…
Want to check what your subscribers are reading? Chartbeat has a new tool for that
Whether it’s the Trump-bump, a new willingness for audiences to pony up or a good…
The best-read story of 2016? Take a bow, Nate Silver
Chartbeat has released its second annual ranking of the best-read digital stories of the year,…
The best-read digital story of 2015? It’s The Atlantic’s ‘What ISIS Really Wants.’
Metrics now allow a fairly exact measure of which stories attract the most readers and…
Most of your headline writing tricks don’t work, apart from these two
Analytics firm Chartbeat has published a new study which finds that most of the conventions…
Who will block the ad blockers? Publishers are proceeding with caution
Along with Apple's latest iOS comes the ability to block ads. In photo, Apple's new…
Parse.ly kicks its digital analytics toolkit up a gear
Parse.ly, one of the major players in the growing business of sophisticated measurement of digital…
‘Dark social’ is mostly Facebook
Good morning. The weekend awaits. Here are 10 media stories. "Dark social" = Facebook For…
The politics of reforming digital audience metrics — don’t underestimate the status quo
Long-time critics of imprecise unique visitor and page view metrics like me have had reason…
Star Tribune runs ad bashing transgender kids
Good morning. Here are 10 media stories. News Corp buys online real estate business: Move,…
Chartbeat: Mobile traffic dropped 8.5 percent during Friday’s Facebook outage
Chartbeat Facebook's 19-minute outage on Friday corresponded to a 3 percent drop in traffic at…
Should publishers be taking better advantage of evergreen content in their archives?
For most publishers, less than 10 percent of June page views came from traffic to…