Rupert Murdoch Gets Shy: Tries To Hide Traffic To His Pre-Paywalled Sites
from the don't-want-any-comparisons... dept
It looks like even Rupert Murdoch and his crew at News Corp. aren't all that confident in how well his new paywalls for his newspapers in the UK are going to do. Apparently, News Corp. has convinced the media-owned organization, ABC, that tracks traffic to newspaper sites in the UK, to no longer publish the numbers for his sites. ABC is still tracking the numbers, but it won't publish them. Apparently, someone is a bit sensitive about people noticing how much traffic has shrunk. Maybe it's starting to sink in that there really is competition online, and most of it is remaining free.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Who knows, maybe thousands, nay hundreds of thousands of punters WANT to pay for their news even though they can get it for free.
As we say in the UK, what a plonker.
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...but not always probable.
What would they gain from hiding success? Wouldn't large numbers attract more customers (well, if that many people think it's a good idea, it must be), and allow them to be more attractive to advertisers?
Naaa... couldn't be... right?
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Which one is it> You either can or you can't.
I think it's more of a case of hide the stats because we look like plonkers.
Down with the evil Murdochs!
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murdoch is getting close to trouble if
Anything remotely relevant to the universe is world wide in seconds and this is why Murdoch's next move as we all see with failing morons that do not know how to adapt is to start finding some way of suing people...like bloggers ( pirates OH that was a good laugh)
I would counter sue for slander , defamation, libel, Pain and suffering. you can get all the free news you want via non paying sites and i can't remember when if ever i have visited any murdoch website.
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Of course, this is the exact opposite of the way Murdoch runs his organisations. The web will certainly not be a poorer place once his shrill, biased, partisan tabloid crap is removed from public view.
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Thats where aggregators and RSS feeds come in. You are seeing more and more specialized RSS feeds. With them you can just get the news you want and ignore britney and her ilk.
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A little about Rupert Murdoch
Since ABC isnt the only one that tracks traffic to newspaper sites in the UK. Lets use Alexa Internet Traffic Stats and Metrics on News Corporations Newspapers
Australasian region Newspapers:
Daily Telegraph
Fiji Times
Gold Coast Bulletin
Herald Sun
NT News
Post Courier
Sunday Herald Sun
Sunday Mail
Sunday Tasmanian
Sunday Territorian
Sunday Times
The Advertiser
The Australian
The Courier Mail
The Mercury
The Sunday Mail
The Sunday Telegraph
Weekly Times
United Kingdom region Newspapers:
News International
News of the World
The Sun
The Sunday Times
The Times
Times Literary Supplement
United States region Newspapers:
New York Post
InterNational
online.wsj.com/public/us
WSJ
WSJ digital network
I thought I would do the whole list ... not bad for five minutes work.
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