Users turning to websites - Newspapers are so last year.
By in Webmaster, Webware on 6th November 2007
It was bound to happen, news papers are more resourceful,fresh,unique but only to a certain extend there are people with over 100 feeds in their feed readers that gives them 20 times the information on a daily basis then newspapers can ever provide, plus its good for the envoirnment the less news papers the less paper trashing neighborhoods and other places because lets face it, no one recycles or even wants to recycle.
TechCrunch reported this news that was originally posted by NY.Times about this trend, and to prove this point more, im sure you alike alot more readers noted the RSS competition between Shoemoney and JohnChow going on, now the amount of subscribers they managed to pull in doing that was amazing i know there are alot of readers online but attracting more on a daily basis at a slow rate is possible but this much was quite a shock.
The picture posted to the right is a graph showing the change in readers, categorized by newspapers and the amount of change in their readers from 2006 till 2007, this change could be a bad turn for the offline marketing field but for us webmasters and online marketers this is just great, because while reading all this about newspapers loosing readers all i’m getting is “More users online” so that means it increases the chance for any website to get more traffic online by atleast 10%, new startups can use this as a green signal to launch new sites for news sites.
Now while we are on the subject, this effects the webmasters in alot of ways because now we can expand more in the news and news delivery niche, like feedburner or bloglines or sites like techcrunch,doshdosh,engadget and alot more.
News is in now, 2.0 is still around but news and content is #1 and back on top like always user interactivity can only go so far, i would say this time can webmasters should focus more on news / article based sites, i know i will.
November 7th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
I saw an interestign article that said the AP newswire was becoming more outdated each day as the blogosphere continues to explode. It echoes the sentiments you’re expressing here. Even further, John Chow and Shoemoney have proven that Google search and Yahoo search are not even necessary to earn money by blogging.
btw, you have one more RSS subscriber. I just added you to my feed reader !!
cheers,
Dave
November 7th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Awesome, thanks for the add
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Awsome, all that said Dave i have to agree 100% nothing more to add…