The deadwood's deadwood is gone

Along with a great many others, I'm sorry to see the Press Gazette close after 41 years. It's long been a regular online read especially since May 2006 when it finally got its online life together - not least through the efforts of my friend and rather good newmedia reporter, Martin Stabe. Sadly it's the predictable numbers game again. Mr. Tosh has the maths

the magazine's website (110,000 uniques a month) was much more popular than the printed version where, I suspect, all the effort went (4,639 sales)

At a guess, the online numbers were probably on the increase, unlike the print edition. I'm half wondering whether or not one or two of the more switched on PG remnants couldn't do a Rick Waghorn and continue where the PG blog left off. 110,000 uniques per month is not a huge number, but I would wager it's a 'monetizeable' number (not sure if monetizeable is word, but who cares...) Food for thought Martin?

Update: here's the Alexa graph of Press Gazette traffic from the comments.

FWIW - I've never trusted Alexa, Technorati, Site Meter, Statcounter, Google Analytics. they all give wildly different data, in my experience.

Comments

[Martin]

Yes, that guess is correct. The online figures were on the increase.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=www.pressgazette.co.uk&site1=&site2=&site3=&site4=&y=r&z=3&h=300&w=500&range=5y&size=Medium&url=www.pressgazette.co.uk

We should know more about the fate of the web site soon.

[anthony]

revenuable