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Nielsen ratings - Average time per visitor

Peter Erickson — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:45:03 -0400

The Nielsen ratings also posted the average time per visitor for each website. I thought it was really striking that the Clinton website led the Democratic field with 8:17, especially since Edwards has a roughly equivalent number of unique visitors. His visitors seem to spend a lot less time on the website, only 3:13, an indication that they're probably not blogging there or reading too much content --- even though I actually think the Edwards web design is much more savy and creative.

Is it that people are using the Clinton website a lot more for finding content and news about the campaign through hillaryhub.com? Is that the success story? Do these ratings say something maybe about how different web design strategies are working? Clinton supporters are getting their news in a Clinton-controlled environment, whereas Edwards supporters are maybe getting their news from elsewhere in the blogosphere? Or am I reading too much into this?

(Obama had an average time of 7:51 per visitor, interesting in itself that he was able to sustain such a high amount of time per visit even with a number of unique visitors nearly double Clinton's.)

More thoughts here in a MyDD diary .

Debate footage set to the Rocky theme

jpa — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:37:05 -0400

How did you miss the best video of the week??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDtLv3I_UaY

Hands down the best video.

abrad2345 missing

FredoJam — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:41:14 -0400

Are we surfing the same net? Funniest, most intriguing, most provocative viral video of the week was "Rudy Giuliani's ""Not Gay like Fred Thompson" posted by abrad2345. Did you not include it because it really is coming from the Giuliani camp? I'm still 50/50 regarding its origin.

Adjusted the numbers

Joshua Levy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:38:59 -0400

Thanks, Mike. I've fixed the numbers and the video we're linking to.

Fred's Announcement Video

Michael Turk — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:18:10 -0400

Your numbers are way off. I'm not sure where your YouTube numbers came from, but our site on YouTube (www.youtube.com/FredThompson) is curently at more than 25,000 views.

Keep in mind that is only a fraction of total views because we're using Blip.tv as our player (http://fredthompson.blip.tv). Blip has registered almost 150,000 views through their site and from our home page.

I'd also add that the video you included is the commercial we ran Wednesday night, not the announcement video.