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Abrams Media Network Ends October Near The Top 200 Web Properties In America

by Dan Abrams | 12:59 pm, November 1st, 2010

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It’s hard for me to believe but once again all four of our wholly-owned sites—Mediaite, Geekosystem, Styleite and Sportsgrid—hit all time traffic highs. Each time we celebrate new records, I keep fearing the best may be behind us, but alas, the teams outdo themselves again.

According to web traffic assessment site Quantcast.com the Abrams Media Network is ranked at number 204, right behind long time stalwarts like The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ.com (200) and just ahead of Usmagazine.com (215) and Newsweek.com (216). I am so proud of all the teams that have made this happen.

It is hard to believe that after just a year and a half Mediaite, including our syndicated content, broke a whopping 5 million unique visitors this month. Our smart and insightful editors, writers and video editor have really tapped into the fact that what is happening in media is often leading the political discussions of the day. As a result, the Mediaite team is now often helping to lead that discussion.

Over at Geekosystem, a full time staff of just two writers/editors and one intern have somehow managed to deliver numbers that would make most fully-staffed sites envious. While it just launched in late January, Geekosystem’s coverage of the fascinating, sometimes weird, and often just geeky stories has delivered just shy of 1.2 million unique visitors.

At our other leanly-staffed sites, Styleite’s record month included over 600 thousand unique visitors and the highest number of page views per visitor of any of our sites. Sportsgrid, at just five months old came into its own this month breaking 500k unique visitors on Google Analytics for the month. Sister site Gossipcop.com continues to break stories and thrive in that competitive arena averaging one million unique visitors per month.

Congrats to everyone who made this happen and thanks to all of you who have been checking in on our sites and making them what they are today.

Dan Abrams, geekosystem, Mediaite

Erebys

High five! You guys have earned it!
http://www.squidoo.com/lauriebethsgrotto Laurie Beth

Big congratulations. You deserve it!
shootfromthehip

That is beyond fantastic, Dan.

Congrats to the entire team.
Moderate

An even bigger revelation by Reuters.

(Reuters) – The midterm elections on Tuesday are likely to put a lot more Republicans in the currently Democratic-led Congress.
chatmandu002

Abrams say, “I’m so in love with myself”. LOL
felixw

Congrats. The site is first rate, not afraid to jump into the fray in real time, and far more balanced than most of the media outlets out there. In general, you give everybody you cover a hard time — and that is shows a degree of courage and honesty that are often missing in other settings. The media pundits you cover at Mediaite could learn a thing or two from your example.
Arkansas Steve

Congratulations to Mediaite, to the Mediaite office staff, and to about, oh, 50% of the writers.
I am assuming the other 50% were hired from the “Democrat Socialists” intern program.
lane

Very impressive.

Being fair, timely, diligent, interesting and profitable in new media is a tough achievement. Congrats. Not only for your success, but for showing that being fair and having different viewpoints can be both engaging and profitable.
Georgia999

That is fantastic ! Congratulations, Dan Abrams !
Very well-deserved. I love this site, no one gets a free pass, there are extensive vidoes that you will never see anywhere else, so well-balancedand very, very refreshing! Thank you, Dan !!!
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

Like Georgia, I love this site too.

Hoping you the best for years to come.
izziben

CONGRATS DAN! Fan since The Abrams Report, love Mediate. Good luck in the future!

Elaine
Cancon2

It drives me crazy sometimes, but it is the best of the net. Congrats on a wonderful accomplishment.
Eric

Nice job Dan!! Now if we could just you back on TV.
WildMan

Congrats Dan. Really great sites.

Now could you please go back on TV and take Angry Ed’s and Crazy Keith’s spots for a 2 hour show. MSNBC’s ratings will go back up!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Sarah-Bernard/652472030 Sarah Bernard

Congrats on the growth, but it’s not really an apples-to-apples comparison if you’re touting non-quantified metrics (wsj) vs. quantified numbers.
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