A couple of nice CNN.com mentions
Lost Remote has a nice bit on CNN.com and its performance in June.
Nielsen Online recently named CNN.com the Internet’s No. 1 news gateway, with the site’s home page generating 60 percent more unique visitors than those of its competitors. During the month of June, CNN also experienced record-setting traffic to iReport.com, the network’s uncensored, unfiltered, unedited, user-generated community Web site; and CNNMoney.com, CNN’s exclusive business site, generated an 1800 percent increase in video streams served versus last June. (Source: Omniture SiteCatalyst, U.S. and International editions combined).
You can read the entire press release in the Lost Remote article but it covers CNN.com, CNNMoney.com, iReport.com and CNN Mobile. All of these help comprise the CNN Digital Network, which is always in the top few news sites, competing with MSNBC and Yahoo.
Also a few days ago Lost Remote wrote a piece on the effect CNN.com can have on traffic as they have begun linking to external sites. They compare a link on the CNN.com homepage as similar to the Digg effect on tech stories, where a mention gets you a ton of traffic and exposure in general.
CNNMoney.com’s video upside
Nice bit on the recent trend on CNNMoney.com since we added an improved and enhanced video experience. Jonathan Shar, CNNMoney.com GM and SVP, comments that "we’re under our potential" and with the focus on the economy likely to continue through the Election cycle I expect he is correct.
The amount of video streams have moved the site to encompass 54% of all video streams in the financial category, according to Nielsen’s most recent Videocensus (other sites include MSN Money, Forbes and TheStreet.com). Streams have more than doubled since the launch.
