Mobile is an important and growing traffic source for all publishers, but just how much traffic does it represent? I was curious where things currently stand so I pulled mobile traffic figures from SimilarWeb for a variety of well-known brands. I started with the sites surveyed in my post on search and social traffic and […]

On average, what percentage of referral traffic to publishers comes from search, social media, links and direct navigation? That’s a question I’m commonly asked by organizations that are attempting to establish benchmarks and assess their current performance. To get an idea of where things currently stand, I pulled 2013 referral data for a selection of […]

I wasn’t able to write as many posts as I’d have liked this year, but I did put out some things that I was happy with and people seemed to find useful. And fortunately I do this just for fun so in the end it doesn’t really matter. So as I stumble across the finish […]

In reading the Pew Research Center’s State of the News Media 2013 there were some interesting things in the sections on magazines and digital that I thought I’d point out. Time is Doing Well Online One is that among the news magazines examined Time.com has the largest online audience by far: Despite this it didn’t […]

Another year gone by, and that means it’s time again for the obligatory top-posts-of-the-year lists. These roundups may be overdone, but personally I like doing one because it is interesting to look back and see what made an impression. With that in mind, here are my top 10 posts of 2012 by pageviews:

This is a guest post from Mik Stroyberg of Issuu, a digital publishing platform for magazines, newspapers and catalogs. I asked Mik to share some thoughts on the future of digital publishing. -Adam I love reading magazines, and I love my iPad because it lets me carry 8 million titles around in one lightweight device. […]

Ever notice how the most flattering blog comments are actually the spam comments? This always makes me smile, so I thought I’d share a handful of them here. It would be a shame for so much unbridled positivity to never make its way into the world. There are the simple, straightforward compliments:

Which news site has the highest customer satisfaction rating? FoxNews.com – by far. Who fared the worst? HuffingtonPost.com. These are the findings of the annual ForeSee American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report that was released today. In the News and Information category FoxNews.com leads by a considerable margin. Its satisfaction score of 84 is […]

SEO and social media are now vital components of audience development for publishers of all shapes and sizes, but there are still huge opportunities for improvement. Since infographics are still (kind of) the rage I’ve been meaning to publish one here. But since I lack any artistic ability and I don’t have the time to […]

As another year comes to a close I thought I’d finish off with a roundup of this year’s most popular posts. Original idea! Nevertheless, here are my top 10 posts of 2011 by pageviews: