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Week in [Read] View | Week of June 29
We’re all about attention. Here are a few stories from the week that captured ours. Social Media & Analytics To-Do Lists for Teaching Mobile Journalism MediaShift | Anthony Adornato |…
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Week in [Read] View | Week of June 22
We’re all about attention. Here are a few stories from the week that captured ours. Headline Writing with NYT Guru ProPublica | Eric Umansky and Kyle Massey | June 22  (20…
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Follow Up: Mobile Research Data Science Webinar
ICYMI: Last week, our Chartcorps and Data Science teams hosted a Q&A webinar covering the latest mobile research from our spring Quarterly issue. You can check out a full recording…
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Recap: Mobile Research Data Science Webinar
Did you miss last week’s webinar on mobile findings from the new Data Science Quarterly? Saw it and want to review the fundamentals? No fear. You can watch Andy and…
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How Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ & Facebook’s News Feed Changes Affect Traffic
ON APRIL 21ST, two major changes took place with referral traffic: Google changed its search algorithm to favor mobile-friendly sites in its mobile search results [1], and Facebook tuned its News Feed…
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The Influence of Tweets: Parsing First-Party and Third-Party Twitter Referrals
Regardless of your newsroom’s size or how many articles you publish every day, chances are you’ve got a Twitter account. What’s more, you’ve likely tried, to greater or lesser success,…
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Rethinking the Value of Your Ad Inventory
Note: This post was co-authored by Kris Harbold and Andy Chen. By looking at the amount of time visitors are exposed to ads on different parts of a web page, we…
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Insights From Around the World
When we look at data from across the Chartbeat Universe, one thing that stands out is the difference in how people from around the world engage with content—how long they…
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Data-Driven Web Design: Examining Link Sizes, Densities, and Click-Throughs
Many publishers would likely argue that the design of the website is as important for enticing readers to engage with the content as the content itself—humans, unfortunately, do judge books…
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The Evolution of Dark Social: Correcting Attribution in the Mobile App Age
Over the past few years, Internet traffic has seen major changes. As smartphones become more ubiquitous, more and more people are spending a significant amount of time on the web…
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How Engaged Time Affects Reading Comprehension
We recently got an interesting question from a client about the connection between engaged time and understanding in news articles. A priori, one may think that there should be a…
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The State of Dark Social
Here at Chartbeat, we have a long history of trying to shed light on the sources of your traffic. Since 2012, we’ve helped illuminate the phenomenon known as dark social—where…










