Subscriber Analytics: Enhanced and Empowering Publishers in Real Time
A Chinese news app is quietly referring millions of pageviews — here’s how global publishers can take advantage
Traffic to your most engaging content can come from unexpected places. Case in point—Chartbeat’s data science team recently found that TopBuzz, a China-based news aggregation app, was responsible for a…
It’s all coming together: Introducing Multi-Site View
“I couldn’t live without it. If you need insight into multiple sites at once, you couldn’t live without it either.” — Daniel Bach Nielsen, Digital Editorial Director, Jysk Fynske MedierNeed…
The Enhanced Art of Writing Headlines
New Feature: Faster User Management and Secure Permissioning
If there’s anything we’ve learned over the last decade, it’s that no two publishers are the same. Different sizes, different geographic reach, different internal structures and ways of working. We’re…
Fireside Chats: Talking technology and media with El Tiempo
In 2018, the Chartbeat team criss-crossed the globe to attend 40 different industry events, spanning Los Angeles to Japan.One of our favorite events of the year, by far, was Digital…
The Most Engaging Stories of 2018
2018 saw familiar political and social themes rise to the top, including Brexit, the Trump administration, the #MeToo movement, and climate change. But it was the deeply investigated and deeply…
Capitalizing on readership during major news events
What do reader trends during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and Brexit vote tell us about how audiences tend to consume content during major breaking news events?While search, direct, and…
YouTube outage drives 20% increase in traffic
Last Tuesday, YouTube experienced an outage for about an hour and the internet got a taste of what would happen if the platform disappeared. The results were surprising: internet behaviors…
What happens when Facebook goes down? People read the news
What would the world look like without Facebook? Chartbeat had a glimpse into that on Aug. 3, 2018, when Facebook went down for 45 minutes and traffic patterns across the…
ONA18 Recap: Reader Engagement goes Mobile
The Chartbeat team was delighted to spend time with our industry friends and partners recently at ONA18, held in Austin, Texas. The conference yielded lively conversations, both off- and onstage….
Research Study: Only 1 in 3 publishers see a clear traffic boost from AMP
AMP traffic in aggregate is increasing, but how widespread is the impact for publishers? Chartbeat, together with The Daily Beast, collaborated on a two-part research study to rigorously quantify the…
Google’s mobile shifts driving traffic boost to publishers
In the past year, while the dialogue around platform traffic focused on the decline from Facebook, Google was quietly executing on a tectonic shift towards mobile. In February, we commented on…