Facebook Live Analysis: Crunching on NPR’s Cereal
(Joey Weed and Brandon Carter / NPR Social Media Desk)
After 54 episodes of daily live video from The Two-Way, what has NPR learned?
A New Player Aims to Bring the Podcast Advertising Analytics Some Want (and Others Fear)
(Nicholas Quah / Hot Pod)
Art19 measures actual user behavior and has some big partners on board.
Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner’s Advanced Google Analytics Guide
(Avinash Kaushik / Occam’s Razor)
Seven things you can do with Google’s new (real-data filled!) demo account.
Behind The New Yorker’s Record-Setting Web Traffic
(Ellen Cools / Folio)
Having more regular contributors and fewer freelancers increased readership.
How Publishers from the HuffPost to The New York Times are Using Instagram Stories
(Max Willens and Lucinda Southern / Digiday)
“Right now, the view rate is painfully low.” But give it time.
From MetricShift:
17 Ways to Measure a Feature News Story by Jason Alcorn
Bulgarian Analytics Startup Aims to Fix How Publishers Use Data by Benjamin Bathke
4 Tips for Successful Instagram Videos by Liam Corcoran
How the Los Angeles Times Located Students from ’06 Immigration Protests by Daniela Gerson
Big Data, Smart Data, Fast Data…. Creative Data? by Ian Gibbs
How Podcasts Could Impact Political Reporting by Tim Cigelske
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Jason Alcorn (@jasonalcorn) is the Metrics Editor for MediaShift. In addition to his work with MediaShift, he is an analyst with the Media Impact Project and works as a consultant with non-profits and newsrooms.