AOL Looking to Hire Hundreds of Journalists, Editors and Videographers
Sounds like AOL will be doing their part to help the economy this year. They are focused on being able to churn out massive amounts of content all in-house and will be hiring hundreds of new content creators. David Eun, president of AOL’s media and studios division, studied the numbers and came to the conclusion [...]
Read MoreBlackVoices Diversifies with Domains
Like most of you I primarily use Quantcast and compete to measure the traffic of other websites. When someone happens to hook me up I use Comscore as well. BlackVoices.com looks to have had a huge dip in traffic on sites like Quantcast and compete. this is largely because they are not classified into a network, Comscore’s equivalent to a media type (M). being classified this way has it’s benefits especially if you are hard at work serving niches as part of your strategy. September Comscore numbers show that Black Voices is actually at about 4.9M unique visitors (October numbers aren’t out yet) classified as a media type. I chatted briefly with Tariq Muhammad today about Black Voices’ new strategy.
Read MoreBlackVoices.com talks Audience Acquisition
AOL’s BlackVoices.com has consistently been the number one African-American web site for news, culture and community over the last 12 months and saw a 66% increase in year-over-year growth. According to the recent comScore Media Metrix report, BlackVoices hit 6.9 million unique visitors this month which is a site record and higher than any other [...]
Read MoreAOL Strong Growth off Niche Redesign and Rebranding
AOL has done an exceptional job positioning themselves in most major vertical markets, but more than just their presence AOL has completely dominated most of these spaces. Black voices is no exception, the industry leader in the Black Community News, AOL is starting to see the benefit from the success of BV and other niche focused websites. AOL property’s have hit an all time high in [...]
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