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Newspaper online audience growth.

G2G comment: the audience at newspaper websites continues to grow...good for our model.

US newspapers' online audience continues to grow

The online audience for US newspaper groups is continuing to grow, with record numbers of internet users visiting their sites in the second quarter.

Research carried out by Nielsen//NetRatings for the Newspaper Association of America found a monthly average of 59m people visited newspaper sites during the period.

This equates to 37.3% of all active internet users and an increase of 7.7% over the same period in 2006. Newspaper site visitors accrued nearly 2.7bn page views a month, compared to around 2.5 bn in Q2 2006.

Users also seem to be more engaged with newspaper sites, as the amount of time spent on them has also increased over last year. Users spent a total of 7.2bn minutes reading newspapers online in Q2.

New York, New York. A city so nice they named it twice!

Off to DC and Atlanta this week.  Terrific meetings in New York last week...we met with:

·         Girl Scouts of the USA

·         City Harvest

·         L’Oreal

·         Working Mother

·         Plum TV

·         Food Bank for New York City

·         American Lung Association of New York

·         Kaplan Thaler 

·         NBC Universal

·         UNICEF

·         Comcast

·         New York Daily News

Bryant Park blogging.

Sahweet.  Nice breeze.  Wireless.    And amazing, amazing meetings in NYC.  We're so going to have to have an office down here.

What a great Day!

268 Summer Street.

Nice.  Very nice.  In the Seaport District across the Fort Point Channel.  Great location...2 blocks back to the Red Line at South Station.  Great space.  Brick.  High ceilings.  Big windows.

And it's already furninished with great furniture - Teknion.

"fill in the blank" Is Not Responding

I hate (that's hate, HATE, HATE!) Windows Vista.

Talk about not ready for prime time.  Yeeesh.  Slow and unstable.  And I'm so not alone on this.

Save yourselves.  Stick with Windows XP.  Or get a Mac.

GCM in NYC - Oh my!

07-07-25 GCM in NYC - Oh my!, originally uploaded by Middlesex Fells.

What, am I crazy?

I'm already tired and I haven't even arrived in NYC yet. Much more to come.

Online newspaper audience continues to grow.

g2g comment: 37%...37%! of all active Internet users visited a newspaper web site.  Sahweet for us. Online Newspaper Audiences Up 7.7% From 2006

by Laurie Petersen and Erik Sass, Tuesday, Jul 24, 2007 6:00 AM ET

MORE THAN 59 MILLION PEOPLE on average--representing 37.3% of all active Internet users--visited newspaper Web sites during the second quarter of 2007. This is a 7.7% increase over the same period a year ago, according to a custom analysis provided by Nielsen//NetRatings for the Newspaper Association of America. It is level with first-quarter 2007 visits. These same visitors generated nearly 2.7 billion page views per month throughout the second quarter, the NAA reported Monday. That compares to slightly more than 2.5 billion page views during the same period last year. It represents a decrease from 3.0 billion page views in the first quarter. "Readers are visiting newspaper Web sites in record numbers for in-depth news and information as well as hyper-local information," said NAA President and CEO John F. Sturm, noting the trend of sites allowing for more user comments on articles and blogs. In addition, time spent on newspaper Web sites is increasing, the research showed. Users spent a combined 7.2 billion minutes browsing newspaper Web sites during the second quarter during nearly 1.4 billion total visits. Average second-quarter reach increased to 37.3% in 2007 from 35.56% in 2006. May 2007 set a record for most monthly visits on record with more than 60 million people visiting newspaper Web sites--a 6.7% increase from the same period a year ago. Read more here.

GCM in NYC.

07-07-22 GCM in NYC, originally uploaded by Middlesex Fells.

Off to New York this week.

Meetings with media? Check!
Meetings with nonprofits Check!
Meetings with brands? Check!

San Francisco this week.

Face to face meetings this week with:

• United Way of Silicon Valley
• The San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com
• Hands On Bay Area
• And a local PR firm that may lead to SF MOMA, the San Francisco Ballet, Macy's Foundation, and Wells Fargo

The bonus was that The Houston Chronicle was conferenced in during the presentation to The San Francisco Chronicle...so we got two Top 10 DMAs for the price of one.

In addition, we had conversations with US News & World Report and PlanUSA...and they both loved it.

Lost luggage.

Riddle me this; when United knows that your luggage didn't make the flight, that it won't be there in your arrival city, that they'll have to deliver it to you...why don't they tell you that BEFORE you've waited for all the bags to be offloaded on the conveyor, waited patiently, watched the last bag circle twice, hoping in vain that your's would appear, and then walked over to their baggage claim office to report a lost bag.  That's when they tell you it didn't make it and that it'd be on the next flight and would be delivered.

If you already know it's not there...tell me...wouldn't that be kinda cool...WITHOUT ME WAITING 45 MINUTES FOR A BAG THAT WASN'T THERE AND THAT THEY KNEW WASN'T THERE!!!

I'm just saying.

The summer of travel insanity continues.