 Press Release
NewsNow breaks symbolic 100m page view barrier as
summer football transfer window closes
19 September 2008
After ten years of growth, last month the UK's favourite news
portal NewsNow.co.uk, broke all previous traffic records, clocking up
100m page views/impressions during the course of August.
July and August both set new traffic records for NewsNow. July saw 91m
page views served for the first time. On the back of that in August,
NewsNow broke the symbolic 100m page view threshold – a further
record.
NewsNow's previous record was 82m, in August 2007.
“Everybody at NewsNow is incredibly pleased with this
performance,”
said Struan Bartlett, chairman. “The summer football transfer window
is always a busy time for us, and it is testament to the quality of
our feeds, and the scalability of our IT systems, that we have been
able to satisfy the high growth in demand for aggregated news over the
period.”
For football fans, NewsNow's team feeds have long been a key part of
their secret armoury for staying on the crest of team gossip. For
others, NewsNow's huge selection of topical feeds is what carves the
site its niche against better funded competitors like Google News.
NewsNow Background
NewsNow is a rolling news service. In real time, it files the headlines
linking to 200,000 articles daily into over 2,500 'feeds' covering a
wide
array of current affairs, business & finance, technology, life & style,
arts & entertainment, and sports topics.
A household name among football fans, NewsNow is a regular winner of the
Website of the Year awards (http://www.websiteoftheyear.co.uk/).
Hitwise
Intelligence recently rated NewsNow no. 12 in the UK's Top 15 news sites
above FT.com and independent.co.uk (see http://xrl.us/NewsNow1) and the
2nd most visited UK news aggregator, after Google News UK, with 23% of
the
market (see http://xrl.us/NewsNow2).
As a company, NewsNow derives revenue from ad sales, from delivering its
feeds to third-party websites, as well as from its highly-acclaimed
subscription news monitoring service.
The chairman of NewsNow, polymath number theorist, computer scientist
and
ex-journalist Struan Bartlett, prototyped the first NewsNow engine in
1997.
An independently-owned British success story, NewsNow was launched in
February 1998, first turned profitable in 1999, received investment in
2000, saw off the .com crash and considers itself well placed to survive
the latest economic downturn.
Contact
NewsNow Press Contact
Struan Bartlett
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