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Revisiting Return Rates
Starting today, we’ve updated our definition of return rate in both our Weekly Perspectives and in the Chartbeat Publishing dashboard. Consequently, you’re likely to see a shift in the numbers…
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Attention Web World Cup: Follow Along with Our Bracket for the Round of 16
After two weeks of intense international web engagement, our bracket for the Attention Web World Cup is set. Many of the groups came down to the very last game, and…
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Attention Web World Cup: The Final Week of the Group Stage
If you’re anything like me, you’re still in a zombie-like stupor over the last 30 seconds of Sunday night’s USA-Portugal game. It’s astounding how drastically hopes, dreams, and expectations can…
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On Engagement & Viewability: Why Quality Content Makes Good Business Sense
On March 31, the Media Rating Council (MRC) announced it was lifting its advisory on viewable impressions for display advertising, bringing the industry one step closer to transacting on viewability for the first time.…
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Attention Web World Cup: Weekend 1 Update
Last week was the start of the World Cup, which meant the kickoff of Chartbeat’s Attention Web World Cup. We’re just 11 matches in and we’ve already seen some pretty…
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Kicking Off the Attention Web World Cup
The World Cup kicked off yesterday with a fantastic (albeit controversial) game between Brazil and Croatia, with Brazil winning 3 – 1. Over the next month, we soccer fans will…
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Download the Summer 2014 Quarterly
When we speak with publishers and advertisers, one thing is always very clear to us: Almost as if by their very nature, they’re ready with pen and pad to learn everything…
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Second-Screen Viewing & the Super Bowl
Current estimates are that nearly 100 million viewers tuned in to watch Seattle’s 43-8 win against Denver last night. Of course, there’ll be many reports that dissect the ways we…
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2014 Trends in Online Journalism
At Chartbeat, we have the great privilege of working with thousands of the world’s online publishers, giving us access to one of the most interesting data sets ever. (Ever!) So,…
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Guest Post: Categorizing Your Site
Hannah Keiler was our Fall 2013 Data Science intern here at Chartbeat, working with Chief Data Scientist Josh Schwartz. Hannah is a senior at Columbia University, where she studies Statistics…
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Understanding Your Traffic Sources, Part 5: Conclusion
For the final installment of our series on Understanding Your Traffic Sources, I wanted to go over some best practices for managing referral traffic and identify a few places where…
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Understanding Your Traffic Sources, Part 4: External Traffic
This marks the fourth part in our ongoing series on traffic sources. If you haven’t already read them, check out the introduction and my analyses of direct traffic and traffic…