reading: slight dip sees Mail Online stay top with 64m browsers – Press Gazette

Mail Online – Daily total: 3,596,040; monthly total: 63,753,237; daily total up 52 per cent year on year; monthly total up 57.4 per cent year on year

Guardian – Daily total: 2,407,265; monthly total: n/a; daily total up 31 per cent year on year; n/a

Telegraph – Daily total: 1,932,618; monthly total: 38,402,509; daily total up 22.1 per cent year on year; monthly total up 27 per cent year on year

Mirror Group Digital – Daily total: 631,100; monthly total: 14,108,330; daily total up 42.9 per cent year on year; monthly total up 51.2 per cent year on year

Independent – Daily total: 586,070; monthly total: 12,852,508; daily total up 28.7 per cent year on year; monthly total up 30.2 per cent year on year

via Slight dip sees Mail Online stay top with 64m browsers – Press Gazette.

reading: Behind the scenes at Today, the most influential programme on British radio | Media | The Guardian

The Today programme is, of course, a legend, but now we know it has never been more popular: the latest figures put its audience during the first three months of this year at 7.03 million, 600,000 more than last year and an absolute if slightly controversial record.It has its critics, of course, some vociferous. Staid, elitist, rarefied. Fewer resources are leading to more mistakes, some complain. Others regret the loss of tone and talent injected by Todays dedicated reporters; the reliance instead on correspondents obliged to serve a multitude of BBC outlets at the same time. The programmes structure is too inflexible, people argue; unable to pick up a story and run with it, like more fluid formats. And its presenters, of course, are variously impertinent and aggressive if not downright rude  Humphrys, use 10 words when two would do James Naughtie, cant construct an argument Sarah Montague, or are too lightweight Davis.

via Behind the scenes at Today, the most influential programme on British radio | Media | The Guardian.

links for 2011-05-23

  • So, in addition to "consumer impressions," we are increasingly tracking "consumer expressions." To us, an expression is any level of engagement with our brand content by a consumer or constituent. It could be a comment, a "like," uploading a photo or video or passing content onto their networks. We're measuring those expressions and applying what we learn to global brand activations and those created at the local level by our 2,700 marketers around the world. For example, in our 24-Hour Live Session with Maroon 5, we captured impressions (the number of online views) but gained tremendous insights from expressions by our consumers — their comments, input on the song that was being created and what they shared with their networks.

links for 2011-05-19

  • We found that only 45 percent of desks in offices are used at any one point in time today. So what we’re doing is aligning the idea of “buy/bring-your-own,” which is beginning to get traction in the IT world, with the idea of just provisioning work, so that companies give their employers a stipend, a budget, and the budget is for all aspects of the provisioning of work to suit them and the way they work.