Happy Birthday, HoffPo
I once confused her with a Gabor sister when I heard her speak. Her run for the Governor of California was entertaining. Now, she is the head of the #1 blog on the internet according to Technoroti. Congratulations to Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post...now 5 years old and a true powerhouse.
Only 36 months ago, The Huffington Post received a bit over 1 million visitors a month. Nothing to sneeze at but it didn't look threatening to, say, The New York Times with it's 11 million visitors. Or that scary to The Wall Street Journal's site with almost 3 million visitors. Now at over 12 million visitors, people have taken notice. Among the initiated, it even has an internet-coolness shortname: TheHoffpo. Interneters don't have time to use full names.
The HuffPo took in $15 million last year, with Greg Coleman at HoffPo thinking that will double this year. NYTimes.com is still a bigger site, by visitors and revenue, but on the revenue side, the Times is trending downhill.
HuffPo is part blog, part politically radicle diatribe and part aggregator. What happens if the end up burying the very sites they aggregate from?
ADDITIONAL READING:
What people are reading on the Huffington Post
The HuffPo took in $15 million last year, with Greg Coleman at HoffPo thinking that will double this year. NYTimes.com is still a bigger site, by visitors and revenue, but on the revenue side, the Times is trending downhill.
HuffPo is part blog, part politically radicle diatribe and part aggregator. What happens if the end up burying the very sites they aggregate from?
ADDITIONAL READING:
What people are reading on the Huffington Post