Newspapers Grow Web Traffic, Still Going Bankrupt

Posted on January 27, 2009
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Nielsen reports that newspaper web traffic grew 16% in December. Great news, but it doesn’t matter what their traffic is, the underlying advertising model is broken and it won’t heal itself.


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I wrote about this phenomena back in June last year and NOTHING has changed. More web traffic won’t close the revenue gap to offline and it certainly won’t be enough to sustain newspapers across the country. More significantly, if you look at the traffic spread in just the top 10 on Nielsen’s list, you start to get a picture for how difficult it is for a non-major media market newspaper to grow traffic.

More on this topic (What's this?)
The Demise of the Newspaper Industry (Dividend Growth Investor, 2/26/09)
Are Newspapers a Dying Industry? (market folly, 4/7/09)
Can Newspapers be Saved? (The Iconoclast Investor, 3/14/09)
Barron's Discount: 40% Off (market folly, 4/22/09)
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