Comments on: Sun Either Most Popular News Site, Or Amongst Least – Who Knows? http://paidcontent.org/2008/05/13/419-sun-either-most-popular-news-site-or-least-who-knows/ The economics of digital content Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Robert Andrews http://paidcontent.org/2008/05/13/419-sun-either-most-popular-news-site-or-least-who-knows/#comment-60216 Mon, 19 May 2008 02:51:08 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/05/13/419-sun-either-most-popular-news-site-or-least-who-knows/#comment-60216 Sun Online got in touch to say comScore's figures are for UK traffic whilst ABCe bottom lines give global figures. Having jettisoned overseas traffic, Sun Online pointed out it placed fourth in March…

Guardian – 7,731,573
Telegraph – 6,045,285
The Times – 5,631,264
The Sun – 5,256,154
the Mail – 5,105,385

]]> By: Carl Lachmann http://paidcontent.org/2008/05/13/419-sun-either-most-popular-news-site-or-least-who-knows/#comment-60215 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:22 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/05/13/419-sun-either-most-popular-news-site-or-least-who-knows/#comment-60215 Of the magazines mentioned in the article, the SUN stands out as the one that has gone the furthest in implementing social networking functionalities. A comparison could be made with the biggest online paper in the Nordics, Aftonbladet (www.aftonbladet.se). In a country with 9 million people they have a WEEKLY audience of close to 4 million UVs. Part of this is for historical reasons, they grew up quickly, but a big part of this is that they have been really quick and extensive in letting the readers and user in to comment, discuss, blog and interact.

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