It would seem both Stan the Man from the OC, and Karla Escolas at Chitika were both correct, but perhaps not as correct as I (or they) would’ve hoped.
Matt Tatham at Hitwise was good enough to forward me the web data for flyoceanicair.com, and there’s definitely merit to Karla’s thinking there was TV to Internet convergence, but for the week, FlyOceanicAir.com had less traffic than www.find815.com
When a fan site that doesn’t get promoted on broadcast network television has more traffic than a site that did get promoted on broadcast network television — I am not ready to proclaim “brilliant” TV to Internet convergence, but clearly there was convergence out of the Lost promo aired during Eli Stone and FlyOceanicAir.com benefited from it.
For the week ending Feb 3, Deal or No Deal was the #1 web TV show site, and Lost was #2.
Hitwise measures share, not visits so it’s a little hard to translate but as background, Google had 5.38% of all U.S. visits last week, according to Hitwise. Thanks to Hitwise & Matt for putting together the chart.
February 6th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Hi Robert,
My apologies for the name! I fixed it right away. Hey it's great they we were able to give our readers two sides of the story.. if everyone saw eye to eye all the time nothing would be interesting
Hope we can collaborate again soon!
Karla
February 6th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Hi Robert,
My apologies for the name! I fixed it right away. Hey it’s great they we were able to give our readers two sides of the story.. if everyone saw eye to eye all the time nothing would be interesting
Hope we can collaborate again soon!
Karla
February 6th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Thanks, Karla and I completely agree!
February 6th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Thanks, Karla and I completely agree!
February 7th, 2008 at 4:51 am
But flyoceanic.com did increase traffice dramatically based on its trend. In addition, if you did visit that site it told you to go to find815.com
February 7th, 2008 at 2:51 am
But flyoceanic.com did increase traffice dramatically based on its trend. In addition, if you did visit that site it told you to go to find815.com
February 7th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Alfie — I agree with you. I guess my only question becomes if the site that was referred to FROM FlyOceanicAir.com had more traffic than FlyOceanicAir, I wasn't sure what to make of the level of convergence. But no matter, Lost fans LOVE Lost, and here is some more info from Hitwise to back that up.
February 7th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Alfie — I agree with you. I guess my only question becomes if the site that was referred to FROM FlyOceanicAir.com had more traffic than FlyOceanicAir, I wasn’t sure what to make of the level of convergence. But no matter, Lost fans LOVE Lost, and here is some more info from Hitwise to back that up.