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Wayyy different orders of magnitude. From NPR's self reported estimates, ~10% of the US population listens to NPR radio weekly. Only ~0.013% of web users comm
by rexaliquid 10y ago
Wayyy different orders of magnitude. From NPR's self reported estimates, ~10% of the US population listens to NPR radio weekly. Only ~0.013% of web users commented on articles.
No telling how many regularly read the comments without contributing. Does anyone have lurker estimates?
- acbabis 10y agoSome comment service providers like Disqus only load the comments if the user scrolls to them, while others only load if the user clicks on a button. If these services' analytics tools don't track this, they should. I'm much more interested in how many people interact with the comments section. This includes posting, lurking, voting, and flagging.
- dominotw 10y ago> ~10% of the US population listens to NPR radio weekly ~30 million users per week would put NPR on par with some of the social networks. Amazing feat by NPR if that number is legit.
- rexaliquid 10y agoNumbers from the NPR Fact Sheet: http://www.npr.org/about/press/NPR_Fact_Sheet.pdf http://www.npr.org/about/press/NPR_Fact_Sheet.pdf
- vacri 10y agoAnecdata: a few years ago I did a road trip through NV, UT, and CO, and for large swathes of that trip, the only radio station that wasn't glassy-eyed christian pap ("if we make 20k donations, it can ONLY by god's will!" and similar) was NPR. If I lived in the area, it would be the only sane choice for radio...