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Intermarkets, Inc., a full-service digital advertising firm, announced today that the Drudge Report set an all-time record of 1 billion page views. Intermarkets is the exclusive ad sales representative for the Drudge Report.
The Drudge Report is published by Matt Drudge who established himself as an early pioneer on the web by covering news and events that the mainstream media ignored. The Drudge Report engages millions of people every day as an online source of top news stories and current events. Its monthly numbers reflect that it is a primary source of breaking news for the public as well as local and national media, political influencers, and opinion leaders.
“With only seven weeks before the 2012 Presidential Elections, the Drudge Report is a much sought-after online resource for readers interested in unbiased news. Political campaigns, issue advocacies, and advertising agencies are particularly interested in reaching Drudge Report readers,” said Intermarkets Chief Operating Officer Will Trommelen. “Election Day 2008 proved to be one of the biggest one-day draws for visitors to the Drudge Report. We’re preparing for a similar record-breaking event on November 6, 2012.”
The Drudge Report’s influence and growth has been acknowledged in OMMA’s 2011 Top 100 Most Important Online Publishers and Quantcast’s 2012 Top 100 Sites on the Internet.
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Not a surprise. It’s one of the only places on the web where news stories get posted that you otherwise would never here about.
1B per week? Month? all time? what’s the record for?
“Unbiased news”? Only a publicist could outdo a Republican in misrepresenting the truth (he said with great understatement). The site is not only ugly and difficult to read, it’s merely an aggregator. Even Arianna makes more of an effort.
Misrepresenting the truth by publishing news stories from reputable news sources around the web? Maybe “revealing the truth” is what you meant to say.
How does one misrepresent the truth by posting links to existing news articles?
By misrepresenting the linked news stories with headlines that are wildly innacurate.
Examples, please.
This is not surprising. He finds the most interesting, often times bizarre stories that you can’t help but reading. Plus, he reports on stories the mainstream media would never touch.
Drudge is always a good place to see what an alternate reality looks like, on an ongoing basis.
Kind of like Fox News, but without the blathering talking heads.
Yes, becuase “alternate reality” means anything you don’t agree with…typical “open-minded” liberal that you are.
You don’t watch Fox News, then….
-RnsW
How many does Breitbart have?
Me like Drudge.
Got to give Drudge props, he gets people to look at a boring black and white page because the guy understands what is interesting. He is also good at stacking humorous or contradictory links that catches peoples attention. Even when the Drudgebots come to this site through one of his links, he is actually helping this site out by piping the traffic through. A billion hits, the dude is good at what he does regardless of whether he is left, right, or center.
..Ah yes boring words in black against a white background..how could information possibly be conveyed in that format ?…we need flaming teddy bears in all corners, Kim’s backside pic and someone giving themselves a award…information,facts and opinions are so dull…jazz it up…jazzed up facts are so much better than mere facts…in this in B&W?…I saw a PLAY last night..it was in HD AND 3D….amazing how they did that…
drudge automatically refreshes itself every 30 seconds I CALL BULLSHIT
the refresh doesn’t count as a click or pageview….
they have isolated tracking for all of this.
-RnsW
The Drudge Report sucks. The layout is sloppy, amateurish at best and the links are usually completed biased right wing propaganda pieces. The only saving grace is that it links and reports news from Deadline Hollywood. But then we get the conservative bloggers infesting our comments. At least the Huffington Post covers all areas of media and is a professionaly designed website.
«Conservative bloggers infesting our comments…»
Ah, yes, the «tolerant» liberals… idiots.
Drudge is what brought me here. I had never heard of Deadline before, but now I visit daily.
Come to think of it, that’s probably why I started coming here too. Of course, I stopped giving Drudge clicks years ago when I realized what a hypocritical muckraker he is.
A billion views wow… congrats, Matt. Love em’ or hate ‘em, he’s a talented, clever and important dude.
Three possibilities: 1 billion misinformed people or 1 person misinformed a billion times or somewhere in-between.
Unbiased?
Untwist your knickers – it’s a news aggregator, all he does is compile links from the four corners of the web, with a conservative lean. If there’s a terrorist explosion somewhere in the world or a two-headed cat, you’ll see it linked first on Drudge. I’m sure Nikki appreciates the millions of hits sent her way too, just as I’m sure they appreciate being called knuckle-dragging morons by the sophisticates here.
good post. also MOST of his links are to mainstream sites…. local CBS and NBC news sites like his stories today, CNN even MSNBC… sure he links to Fox and occasionally Breitbart – but it’s pretty rare… I would say there are more links to “mainstream” media than conservative-leaning sites… Hell I’ve only seen a Newsbusters link twice in 3 months..
So yes I agree with you there is a “conservative bent” but he really is just an aggregator. He used to provide small bits and then toss in “developing” under his own story, but he’s stopped that years ago…
-RnsW