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Abrams Media Network Passes 9 Million Unique Visitors For Month Of January

by Dan Abrams | 12:54 pm, February 1st, 2011

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I am thrilled to announce that all of the Abrams Media sites, each and every one, had a record month in January. Sure the success vary from granddaddy (18 months old) Mediaite and its syndicated content receiving over 12.5 million page views (5.1 million unique visitors) to Geekosystem‘s (which turned a year old this month) 2.7 million pageviews (1.24 million uniques) to Styleite‘s 827,000 unique visitors (with the highest number of page views per unique) to baby Sportsgrid (8 months old) breaking 550,000 unique visitors. Sister site Gossip Cop also saw record breaking page views second only to Mediaite.

To those not steeped in the minutiae of web traffic, it seems everyone claims to have millions and millions of something. Page views, impressions, visits, uniques, its a sometimes foreign language debated by those of us whose livelihood depends on the significance of those definitions.

To keep things simple, according to web traffic evaluator Quantcast, (the most accurate comparative tool since publisher’s grant them access to internal numbers), our network of sites, many with just two employees, is welcoming far more visitors than many of our favorite sites like Politico, Wall Street Journal, Salon and The Daily Beast (and The New York Observer, all the Mediabistro blogs and The Hollywood Reporter combined). Our growing traffic is already comparable to stalwarts like Slate or Us Weekly with a fraction of their staffs.

Web numbers can often feel wildly inaccurate and speculative but they are actually far more exact than say television ratings. Instead of broad sampling estimates, you can get minute by minute, day by day, week by week and month by month statistics that reflect almost precisely the number of people who visit your site, how long they spend there, how many pages they view, where they come from etc. Sure protections have to be implemented to avoid counting bots or spam, various measuring systems will spit out somewhat different numbers, and publisher’s tend to exaggerate their numbers (our internal numbers tend to show us about 20 to 25% higher than is reflected on Quantcast) but in the end it’s still easy to see how publishers are doing vis a vis their counterparts.

So with that said sincere congratulations are in order to Colby Hall, Robert Quigley, Verena Von Pfetten, Dan Fogarty and their teams. And of course our Video Director Jon Nicosia, whose tireless work has made our sites far more compelling. You all have not just succeeded, you have done something far more impressive, you have created from scratch, a successful enterprise. For that I salute and thank you (and don’t worry, I recognize that February is a short month).

ROCKSTEADY

Congrates! Thanks for the names of the other sites.
JamesA1102

So pandering to the most extreme elements of right wing worked out. You must be so proud.
http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

that’s great to hear! i love this website and the people who comment on it. i hope Mediaite never goes away. hey Dan, how about an iPhone app?
http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

JamesA1102 said:
So pandering to the most extreme elements of right wing worked out. You must be so proud.

in my opinion this has got to be one of the most down the middle media sites on the web. especially since it was created by an individual who’s employed by NBC/MSNBC.
Nachi

Congrats! But it would be nice if one could “join” these other sites. I’m unable to do so – for months now, despite repeatedly trying. (???)
WCinWI

Abrams better thank Rush, Glenn and others because they always talk about Mediaite’s crazy articles. Without Rush, where would Mediaite be?
AVORR

WCunWl, you are brain dead and as dump as a box of rock with that kind of statement.
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

Dan,

Nice job!
I’ve read a number of sites, and you’ve overseen a very good one here.

Though left-leaning, the selection, perspective and tone of the articles are generally fair, and the format allows for good back-and-forth flow.
Kudos also goes to the posters, and your editors’ willingness to acknowledge criticism.

Are you still remaining as hands off as you initially indicated in your intro letter?
remoriah

Congrats to Dan. I read this website every day. As a fiscal conservative and a social moderate, I find this publication to be extremely fair. If you present both sides fairly, even humorously (as you do) I will be your patron. I detest one-sided websites which I fear more than anything. Keep up the good work.
puck30

Congrats Dan, but I’m with Nachi on this one. It would be nice to have the same sign in on all the sites.
More Liberty3

More power to you Mr. Abrams. But on a side note, as the former General Manager of MSNBC are you still trying to claim that Mediaite is an unbiased site? You also claim, via Wikipedia, that Mediaite is not “over-snarky or mean and nasty.” Do you still make such claims? Because if so, you should really read Colby Halls “writings.”
puck30

remoriah said:
Congrats to Dan. I read this website every day. As a fiscal conservative and a social moderate, I find this publication to be extremely fair. If you present both sides fairly, even humorously (as you do) I will be your patron. I detest one-sided websites which I fear more than anything. Keep up the good work.

WORD remoriah! though I do not detest nor fear one-sided websites, they are what they are.
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

puck30 said:
Congrats Dan, but I’m with Nachi on this one. It would be nice to have the same sign in on all the sites.

Good suggestion(s).
A lot of times I’ll hit a sportsgrid story, won’t remember my log-in for that, and then just click out.
WCinWI

AVORR said:
WCunWl, you are brain dead and as dump as a box of rock with that kind of statement.

It’s funny being “attacked” by someone that can’t spell. :)
printbrat

Awesome news, but we still NEED YOU back on TV Dan!
darkangel

DAN

The ” mobile view ” has been gone for months which was awesome when using smartphones ( iphones , blackberrys etc al ) would be appeciated if it was brought back —thanks
http://www.squidoo.com/lauriebethsgrotto Laurie Beth

I feel like I’m saying congratulations to you constantly! You deserve it. Good for you and everyone else involved.
Jon Bershad

NORBIT Jr. said:
Good suggestion(s).
A lot of times I’ll hit a sportsgrid story, won’t remember my log-in for that, and then just click out.

Are you guys referring to the comments on those sites? The other sites use a popular commenting client (or “centralized discussion platform” as they say) called Disqus. This means that you don’t create a user name for the specific site but for Disqus as a whole and then, whenever you go to a website that uses that service, you’ll be logged in. Thus you’ll have the same user name and login for Geekosystem, Sports Grid, Styleite, and any other website that uses Disqus.

So, if you want to comment on the other sites, you should make a Disqus account (you can also use Facebook profiles to do so if you want). I don’t know if there was ever talk of adding this feature to Mediaite since we already had such a robust commenting community and didn’t want to rock the boat. Not sure if that will ever change. That’s a question for the techies.

Hope that helps!
JamesA1102

stormin1961 said:
in my opinion this has got to be one of the most down the middle media sites on the web. especially since it was created by an individual who’s employed by NBC/MSNBC.

No an employee that was fired by NBC/MSNBC.
Nachi

Jon Bershad said:
Are you guys referring to the comments on those sites? The other sites use a popular commenting client (or “centralized discussion platform” as they say) called Disqus. This means that you don’t create a user name for the specific site but for Disqus as a whole and then, whenever you go to a website that uses that service, you’ll be logged in. Thus you’ll have the same user name and login for Geekosystem, Sports Grid, Styleite, and any other website that uses Disqus. So, if you want to comment on the other sites, you should make a Disqus account (you can also use Facebook profiles to do so if you want). I don’t know if there was ever talk of adding this feature to Mediaite since we already had such a robust commenting community and didn’t want to rock the boat. Not sure if that will ever change. That’s a question for the techies. Hope that helps!

Thank you, Jon. I shall try that. Again.
Enoughisenough

Well, good for you, Dan and staff of Mediaite. I’m happy for you all. I appreciate the efforts and the voice you offer. But, I will offer a small word of advice, too: Stop the Beck Bashing. It’s making you look like Huff-Poo, and it’s not worthwhile to read Mediaite if it’s just going to be a mirror image of Huff-Poo.

Be different; be better.
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

Jon Bershad said:
Are you guys referring to the comments on those sites? The other sites use a popular commenting client (or “centralized discussion platform” as they say) called Disqus. This means that you don’t create a user name for the specific site but for Disqus as a whole and then, whenever you go to a website that uses that service, you’ll be logged in. Thus you’ll have the same user name and login for Geekosystem, Sports Grid, Styleite, and any other website that uses Disqus. So, if you want to comment on the other sites, you should make a Disqus account (you can also use Facebook profiles to do so if you want). I don’t know if there was ever talk of adding this feature to Mediaite since we already had such a robust commenting community and didn’t want to rock the boat. Not sure if that will ever change. That’s a question for the techies. Hope that helps!

Thank you, will do.
Puter Boi

Dan Abrams is a media God….
Now if he could just do something about Colby’s ties…..

MEDIAITE ROCKS!!!!
Pablo

Congrats, Dan! Those are pretty awesome numbers.

JamesA1102 said:
No an employee that was fired by NBC/MSNBC.

Wrong, ya nasty little man.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ed-Lascar/100000889579338 Ed Lascar

Enoughisenough said:
Well, good for you, Dan and staff of Mediaite. I’m happy for you all. I appreciate the efforts and the voice you offer. But, I will offer a small word of advice, too: Stop the Beck Bashing. It’s making you look like Huff-Poo, and it’s not worthwhile to read Mediaite if it’s just going to be a mirror image of Huff-Poo.

Be different; be better.

I’ say something like that. It’s not funny that even gaining momentum and ….page views..with Beck, O’Reilly and FOX Nation beeing brought to discussion often you guys mantain this bashing totally unfair -and you know that it is!- against them.
NeverCon

8 1/2 million Right Wing repeat posters.
http://www.abramsresearch.com/ Dan Abrams

Thanks to all of you as well! While the comment section can get pretty tough, we all appreciate the time and effort that (most of) you devote here. (@james1102 Ha. I guess that paycheck NBC/Msnbc has been sending me was just to be nice?)
Georgia999

Enoughisenough said:
Well, good for you, Dan and staff of Mediaite. I’m happy for you all. I appreciate the efforts and the voice you offer. But, I will offer a small word of advice, too: Stop the Beck Bashing. It’s making you look like Huff-Poo, and it’s not worthwhile to read Mediaite if it’s just going to be a mirror image of Huff-Poo. Be different; be better.

I agree with that !! There are more than “enough” sites like Huff & Puff that are so far LEFT ! Way too many ! If Mediaite goes that way, instead of “fair and balanced and funny, too”, well bye, bye Mediaite. The #1 reason Mediaite is so successful. You listen and talk to us ALL!
puck30

Jon Bershad said:
Are you guys referring to the comments on those sites? The other sites use a popular commenting client (or “centralized discussion platform” as they say) called Disqus. This means that you don’t create a user name for the specific site but for Disqus as a whole and then, whenever you go to a website that uses that service, you’ll be logged in. Thus you’ll have the same user name and login for Geekosystem, Sports Grid, Styleite, and any other website that uses Disqus. So, if you want to comment on the other sites, you should make a Disqus account (you can also use Facebook profiles to do so if you want). I don’t know if there was ever talk of adding this feature to Mediaite since we already had such a robust commenting community and didn’t want to rock the boat. Not sure if that will ever change. That’s a question for the techies. Hope that helps!

Thanks Jon!
The Tea Weasel

I personally accounted for 3.2 million hits. It was a snowy, cold month.
Nacho

WCinWI said:
Abrams better thank Rush, Glenn and others because they always talk about Mediaite’s crazy articles. Without Rush, where would Mediaite be?

Spoken like a true Dittohead.
Calvin

Congrats, Grizzly Dan Abrams.
JamesA1102

Dan Abrams said:
(@james1102 Ha. I guess that paycheck NBC/Msnbc has been sending me was just to be nice?)

Or to fulfill the terms of your contract just like they paid off Conan.