Last month, I told you that Deadline|Hollywood, after just four years in existence, has a larger readership than Variety and The Hollywood Reporter print and online combined. Now I can tell you that, according to comScore, DH from January 1st-31st doubled its own November U.S. traffic, and also increased its lead over Hollywood trades and other media websites. And we’re doing it by staying lean and mean with original business news content that’s advertiser supported and doesn’t bottomfeed about celebrities just to inflate web traffic.
According to comScore (the web’s leading U.S. analytics and traffic source), Deadline|Hollywood in January recorded 2,299,000 uniques, 5,100,000 visits, and 8,000,000 page views for its U.S. traffic. That was nearly 3 times more uniques and page views than The Hollywood Reporter; 4 times more than Variety; 5.5 times more uniques and 8 times more page views than The Wrap; 21.2 times more uniques than Paid Content and 30.6 times more page views; 3 times more uniques and page views than MediaBistro; and 4 times more than Vanity Fair.
Look for Mike Fleming’s Deadline|New York to go live on March 2nd.
[UPDATE: Due to a computation error by a staff member, I was told that Deadline|Hollywood's Quantcast global uniques were bigger than Gawker's. That is not the case -- yet.]
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.


Well-deserved success. It’s a great site with excellent content.
Awesome! And thank you…:o)
Congrats! It’s especially nice to see you crushing Variety… I don’t believe in the online pay wall business model, and I hope it blows up in their faces!
Yes, yes, great numbers and all that, but Variety is behind a paywall now, so of course less people will use the site. It has traded ad footfall for the bet of increased subs, so the comparison is meaningless…
Hear hear about not bottom-feeding about celebs! I can’t even go to HuffPo anymore what with all the “NSFW” crap nowadays.
Keep up the lean/mean work! I love that it’s so proactive and really useful. Thanks!
“and doesn’t bottomfeed about celebrities just to inflate web traffic.”
except for all those Taylor Lautner posts
Congratulations, Nikke. The only time I read Variety is when I’m sitting in reception waiting for someone to wrap up a call. I read DHD every day.
Congrats. But while it’s true you don’t bottom-feed with celebrity gossip, you do bottom-feed via Twilight news and news about anyone involved with the Twilight series. Some might say that’s worse than TMZ’s gossiping.
congratulations, nikki. god knows i’ve done my share of the page views.
And this is why reading Deadline Hollywood is a wise, professional move for ANY one in the industry. Congratulations Ms. Finke.
Congrat, Nikki! Keep the scoops coming in! And Mike, glad you’re here!!
U ARE the original Hwood blogger N! As for those others, all I read is DHD, Hollywood Wiretap (which helpfully tells me important media news and saved me from the coastal Times, etc.) and TVbythenumbers.com (I’m now obsessed with ratings). Viva DHD!
No bottom feeding wins the day; how refreshing!
Congrats!!! Keep up the great work!
Yet another example of how the Internet is transforming media, and why any attempts by old media to put a “pay wall” around their content will ultimately fail.
Here you have a news site started only 4 years ago that dwarfs the traffic of old-media, “big-name” sites like Variety.
There has been a lot of debate lately about whether old media companies like the New York Times could charge for their content. The answer is clearly no. Doing so will only do more damage. The vast majority of people will always seek out similar, free alternatives which will always exist.
don’t be so modest.. Congrats on the great accomplishment
I’m starting a treatment on an industrious former journalist who morphs into a blogger and, assisted by incompetent management at the trades, brings them to their knees.
Congrats on the terrific milestone.
AWESOME! (…just remember never to fix anything that isn’t broken…You are the Babe!)
another milestone and properly placed nail in the traditional media coffin!
go nikki! you are making the other “news” outlets irrelevant. if you want to know what’s going on, you only click on you. and btw, mike fleming was an awesome addition, he was always the best thing about variety…
I’ll be looking at that number go up more when you add NYC to the mix.
Way to go Nikki! Congrats, that’s because you tell it like it is, without all that lying deceitful b.s.
*****,5 stars for Nikki !
Great
Any idea how the rest of us can make a living to support your lame site?
Outstanding, and no surprise!
Nikki, you have created a site with great and credible stories way ahead of the rest of the industry rags. You deserve all this and future success.
Never sell out, please.
I am a devoted fan and supporter.
WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!