Fastest Growing News and Media Sites

Going back to March's Hitwise newsletter, it's pretty interesting to see the sites that we've know about for a while, because we work in the industry, become mainstream.

It happened with Google, many of us were spending a very small amount of time back along trying to work out how to get to the top. Now the fastest growing news and media site is Digg.com. Now we're all trying to make the most of the site and leverage it's audience for our own end.

But you'll need to look at what was happening in January. From my recollection (and the bruises of trying to fix my garden fence) it was when we had the gales, so it's not surprising to see the Weather hitting the top ten.

Hitwise UK Websites with the Largest Growth in Market Share of Visits Among
the Top 100 News and Media Websites Comparing January 2007 and January 2006

1. Digg.com www.digg.com 456%
2. CNET www.cnet.com 255%
3. Weather.com www.weather.com 198%
4. Yahoo! UK & Ireland Weather uk.weather.yahoo.com 160%
5. Yahoo! UK & Ireland News uk.news.yahoo.com 105%
6. Metro.co.uk www.metro.co.uk 94%
7. Blackwell Synergy www.blackwell-synergy.com 88%
8. UK Wind Map www.xcweather.co.uk 72%
9. Daily Mail www.dailymail.co.uk 68%
10. Computer Active www.computeractive.co.uk 61%