paidContent:UK - Covering UK\'s Digital Media Economy

Current Story

Print Bits: El Pais Sues Nielsen; Telegraph Gains, Guardian Falls In November

By Robert Andrews - Fri 21 Dec 2007 03:39 AM PST

- El Pais: Spain’s top media company Prisa is suing Nielsen Online over disputed visitor numbers recorded for the website of its flagship El Pais newspaper. Nielsen stats prompted “damage caused by the unjustified downward revision in the number of unique visitors of ElPais.com during the current year”, Prisa’s complaint said, alleging “serious negligence on the part of Nielsen in its measurement of audience figures for El Pais.COM (caused) El Pais and Prisa to suffer serious damages due to lost advertisement this year”. (AFP via Editors’ Weblog).

- ABCe: Telegraph.co.uk gained 1.7 million unique users in November to leapfrog Times Online and become the UK’s third most popular newspaper website. Guardian Unlimited remained top but lost 908,250 users (now 17.5 million), a disappointment amid its redesign; Mail Online in second gained 884,550 users (now 14.4 million); Telegraph.co.uk went from 11.1 million to third on 12.8 million; Times Online lost 158,802 users in fourth (now 12.28 million); Sun Online added 2.4 million users (now 11.6 million) but ranks last of the five papers who submit monthly ABCe returns.

Posted in: Companies, Guardian Media Group, Telegraph, Media, Newspapers


Related Research from Alacrastore.com

2 Responses:
  • From Jemima Kiss Fri 21 Dec 2007 04:16 AM

    Hi Robert: Just a note about the GU figures. It’s not that November was a bad month - more that October was an extraordinary month for traffic that was across the board on GU. If you exclude October, our overall growth curve for unique users has risen steadily year-on-year.

    Happy Christmas! x

  • From Robert Andrews Fri 21 Dec 2007 04:31 AM

    Sure, Jemima. We noted GU’s record in October, and 18,407,758 is impressive in any book. October ‘06 was 12,744,399.
    Have yourself a merry little Christmas, see you in ‘08 x

Post Your Comment

Mobile Options

» Mobile App
» Mobile/WAP Site

Send a News Tip

About

paidContent:UK covers the business of digital media for the U.K. and European markets.

Robert Andrews
U.K. Editor

Staci D. Kramer
Co-Editor

Dianne See Morrison
Contributing Writer

Ingrid Lunden
U.K. Contributor

Rafat Ali
Publisher

EconCeleb Conference - The Economics of Celebrity. July 23 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood

Featured Report - 2008 Social Media Deals Report

front page of report

The economics of social media continue to heat up, with ever more buzz created in new and growing market categories. This report examines the categories, number and size of investment and acquisitions into social media and the resulting value created from 2007 through 2008. Order your report today to analyze deals made by Yahoo, Disney, Google, AOL, CBS, Hearst, Microsoft and many more.

Learn more or purchase now.

New Media/Interactive Job Listings

Post Job
More Jobs

Generous Supporters