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Our Boss Thanks Us For So Many of You Visiting Mediaite In January

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by Mediaite Staff | 3:25 pm, February 1st, 2012

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As you all know, we here at Mediaite are desperately insecure and do everything we do purely for the positive reinforcement. That’s why we never, ever, ever read our own comments section (there are mean people down there!). Fortunately, every once in a while, if we’ve been really good, the big boss man sends us a nice email. However, that’s not enough for us. We crave more. So, like an obnoxious Ivy Leaguer “casually” dropping their alma mater into conversation, we’re going to “casually” mention the email Dan Abrams sent out today about how good our numbers have been…by publishing it in full on our site.

We’re super modest.

Anyway, here it is. We hope you can read it without getting distracted by the sound of our backs being patted and now us patting each other.

Well that was a helluva way to start the year. Not only were every one of our sites up from the previous month for a second month in a row, but in January, many of you set site records. TheMarySue, still less than a year old, had a site high 525k unique visitors read its smart, funny and unique content in the month of January. Sportsgrid, still a man down, also broke a team record welcoming 1.6 million unique visitors to the site and its syndicated content. Styleite has been seeing impressive growth as of late with almost 700,000 unique visitors visiting in January. Geekosystem continued to grow its audience with 1.6 million uniques, and TheJaneDough, in its first full month, ended the month trending at double where it had been as Mogulite. Mediaite, continues to wow the media community with over 6.1 million unique visitors reading and watching its content (the site and syndicated) in January, up 11% in uniques and 18% in pageviews over December. Our cousin site Gossip Cop led by Mr. Lewittes, had its most pageviews ever, breaking 7 million.

Across all 7 sites we welcomed a record 13 million unique visitors to our content in January (according to Google Analytics)! Not only is that wildly impressive under almost any circumstances, but considering that most of you have only three writer/editors (yes Amy, TheJaneDough is getting a third person!) and most of the sites launched in 2010 and 2011, it is truly remarkable. These traffic achievements are even more striking when one compares us on Quantcast to some far larger web properties with multiple verticals that many of us enjoy and respect. We are currently at 8.7 million on Quantcast (a number that changes daily), which means we are welcoming the same number of visitors globally as BusinessInsider while we are significantly larger than them in U.S traffic. We are about the same size as the always impressive NYMag.com including their Menupages, and before they hid their numbers on Quantcast, we had more than double the visitors of one of my favorite sites, The Daily Beast. We are almost six times as large as Mediabistro and more than six times the size of The Observer’s five web properties.

As you all know, we will be launching a new site in the food space scheduled for the end of March and I will update all of you on that in the next week or so. Most important I just wanted to say thank you. You are a truly impressive group who never cease to amaze me with your intellect, wit and ability to distinguish your sites in an often crowded and competitive marketplace.

Congrats!
Dan

Congratulations to all of our sister sites! But mostly, y’know, to us.

Mediaite, Traffic, yay!

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

thanks for a platform i can spew my right wing extremist views on… you guys are great…
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RD7VI4JIGOLEZWXOF5UU5PE3II Juliet Abanike

I watched Dan Abrams Esq. when he had a show at MSNBC ’cause he was fair and balanced. Even though he is left leaning, at least.. he appears and tackles things from the center. I love you Dan Abrams!!!!!!!!!!!! Because of you I will always stay glued to Mediaite.com. Though sometimes your writers drive me crazy with their left leaning bullshit. Yes, I said it.

And I am a centrist…lol. Who cares…lol.

Long live Mediaited.com!
Anonymous

Mediaite has the most diverse group of commenters that I’ve seen. That’s why I come back daily. I just wish the writing staff was more balanced (particularly the columnists). If you really want to grow, I think you must consider this.
http://www.madcharles.com/ MadCharles

Hello Dan. Nice to see you again. You’re doing a great job.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

Thanks for letting the Tea Party Patriots have a place where we can go vent our frustration at our political system.
http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

Congrats!! Also very happy to hear you’re kicking Mediabistro’s ass!!
Anonymous

Where’s my money?
Anonymous

Awesome job. I hope you have big plans for the summer election season. I’m sure they’ll be so many active storied you’ll practically have to have a 2nd front page. Here’s to hoping your traffic will grow at least 50% by year end :)
http://twitter.com/edfromred edfromred

As a news junkie I love Medaite…it must be one of the sites I visit the most often. Thanks Mr. Abrams for providing a site that informatively and entertainingly covers the serious and silly in media affairs.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

Dan, I guess the baby through some cold water on my speculation of “love/hate sparks” flying between you and Nancy Grace, but be-that-as-it-may, congrats on the good numbers (did msnbc call yet to get some tips?)!

Despite the
Centrist79

Great Job, I found the site by accident, but I make sure I check it out almost everyday.
AliveStillKickin

Thank you for creating a place where I can eat for free (liberal’s lunches).
I just can’t let it go for a minute….can I?
Thanks, Dan
:)
http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

Media sites grow up so fast. It seems like only yesterday that Mediaite was all small and cute. Now it’s sprouting chin hair. Pretty soon it will be the old man on the block. Cheers!
Anonymous

Mediaite was mentioned on the Five tonight, in case you didn’t see it/hear it.
AliveStillKickin

FOX covers everything news….CBS, ABC and CNN cover Obama’s ass…..MSNBC covers their own ass
http://www.facebook.com/matthew.minard Matthew Minard

this website is awesome!!!!
Anonymous

We know Faux is watching EVERYBODY, they have to be ready to respond to any attempt by any media organization to honestly and factually inform the people in any way what so ever.

Faux propagandists have a revisionist version ready to go at a moments notice.

if the President laughs they claim he saw a an old person fall down, if a democrat helps someone carry their grocerys out to a car they claim the democrat was trying carjack them, if a conservative gets caughttaking candy from a baby they claim he was a democrat molesting children.

yes Faux covers everything News and then they twist it.
Anonymous

He ought to get you guys an office cat, cats are so perfect at motivating employees all you have to do is order them to attack and they just go right to town waliking on keyboards and rubbing legs to create tazer like static shocks. yep Dan owes you guys a cat.

Thanks for the site Dan and thank you staff for the work you put in annoying conservatives who come here to rant about the way you refuse to write stories the way they would rightwing write them.

Keep up the good work and continue chipping away at Rupert Murdochs empire.
Anonymous

sexy spunk
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

Congrats, good job ya’ll!
Anonymous

No problem, Dan. You handsome bastard.
Anonymous

I won’t ‘visit’ if Paula Deen has anything to do with the new site…
http://twitter.com/Kattyusa Katty

Mediate is the best site going – bar none….what more can I say?
Oh..you’re offended? Good.

Congrats!