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Monday, May 18, 2009

Media The New P-I, By the Numbers

Posted by Eli Sanders on Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:30 PM

How's the new, online-only Seattle Post Intelligencer doing? In terms of April traffic, better than last year. According to the P-I:

Two months after becoming the nation’s largest newspaper to move to an all-digital news model, seattlepi.com’s year over year numbers show that it has more users this April than last April, when the Post Intelligencer was still publishing with an 80% larger staff, an amazing feat for an online venture with a newsroom of 20.

In April, its first full month of operation, seattlepi.com had 4.3 million unique visitors, up 1.6% from 4.2 million in April 2008 (source: Omniture). Total page views for the month were 37.3 million.

Time for a party? Why, yes. This Wednesday, according to invites that have been mailed around town, the new P-I will be celebrating its "rebirth as the region's most popular news & information portal" by pouring wine and passing around hors d'oeuvres at the Seattle Art Museum. Fancy! (And with fancy guest speakers from Hearst, Yahoo!, and Google.) Who knew you could turn ads for teeth whitening into such a grand event?

Here's the invite, which yours truly did not receive:

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And which, just in case anyone's missing their old print newspaper games, sets up a quick little round of "spot the differences."

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So, uh, page views are up, but that doesn't guarantee it's profitable. What are the financials?

I know I still only go there to read Art Thiel and Horsey.

Posted by Banna

on May 18, 2009 at 1:33 PM

fucking goddamn stupid dipshit myopic idiot fearful waste of skin it would be to put together this response, in may, to april's tick-mark rise.

let me say again, fucking goddamn stupid dipshit myopic idiot fearful waste of skin it would be to put together this response, in may, to april's tick-mark rise.

Posted by bubblessosad on May 18, 2009 at 1:39 PM

Meanwhile Frank Blethen, feeling used, starts musing about shooting dogs again ...

Posted by Will in Seattle

on May 18, 2009 at 4:00 PM

What time is the party? Can we crash it?

Posted by dc.al.coda on May 18, 2009 at 5:04 PM

Hey Eli as the SeattlePI.com's most popular blogger I was invited to the Shin Dig on Wednesday. Do you want to be my man-date to it? But be nice infront of the corporate ghouls from Hearst.

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Posted by Jacob Metcalf on May 18, 2009 at 6:06 PM

Meet me at the ferry terminal at 6:30 on Wednesday. I'll be leaving the Bremerton boat if you are down but let me know first.

Of course I would love to write game reviews for The Stranger again if you still published them.

Posted by Jacob Metcalf on May 18, 2009 at 6:10 PM

Eli, you meant invitation, not invite. Invite is a verb.

Posted by grammar police on May 18, 2009 at 8:06 PM

Is it wrong that I hope that all these "Post Seattle PI news sites? crash and burn so the real SeattlePI.com can take on TV and the Times?

OH FUCK IT IS THE GRAMMAR NAZIS CHEEZE IT

Posted by Jacob Metcalf on May 18, 2009 at 8:38 PM

Well I can kind of see why the PI would love your blog.

Posted by Mr. Poe on May 18, 2009 at 8:56 PM

I think we should all meet Jake at the Bremerton ferry terminal. Dressed as furries.

Posted by dc.al.coda on May 19, 2009 at 9:22 AM