The Media Drop

The New York Times Company announced on Thursday that their website traffic for January was a record, with 553 million page views — 2 million more than the previous record, November of 2004, during the Presidential election. Specifically mentioned were 4.5 million pageviews originating from the Times‘ RSS feeds and a 23% hop in unique visitors, to 16.4 million, from the previous year. The ‘multimedia’ sections of the site, which include slide shows and A/V, experienced a screaming 671% surge from the same period in 2004. (BW)