Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Where Do I Apply?

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Via Politico:
Almost no one is reading Fusion

By DYLAN BYERS

Gawker's Sam Biddle got his hands on screenshots of Fusion's internal traffic metrics, as measured by Chartbeat, and they aren't pretty:
The number of “concurrents” (people reading the same thing simultaneously) is unbelievably low for a website that’s been around for two years and employs some of the most widely known digital journalists around. ... At the moment the above screenshot was taken [about 1 p.m. on Tuesday]... only 32 people were reading ... the most popular story on the entirety of Fusion.net...

This from a website that’s been handing out six-figure salaries to staff writers for the past year, and reportedly just locked down $30 million in further funding from its co-owners, Disney and Univision. Our most recent Fusion traffic screenshot shows 706 concurrent visitors—that’s over $42,000 per reader...
I'd take half that in cash and write circles around the best you've got.

3 comments:

Paul said...

what the hell is Fusion anyway?

Kevin Holsinger said...

Good morning, Mr. Glass.

As I believe your girls would put it, "Stop trying to make Fusion happen. It's not gonna happen."

I say this neither knowing nor caring what Fusion is.

Enjoy your day.

---Kevin Holsinger

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

merge it with Greenwald's joint, and they could spend twice the money for half the page views. WINNING!