Most Popular Canadian Radio Stations Online (By Alexa, June 2009)
Alexa.com is an Amazon.com-owned web traffic analytic tool that estimates website usage. It's not as precise or accurate as comScore, MediaMetrics, Nielsen or other more sophisticated Internet measurement tools...but Alexa is good for getting an idea of what search engines are considering "top performers."
The higher a websites Alexa ranking, the higher "authority" that site receives from search engines.
Having higher search engine authority means it is much easily to get found online through search engines.
Viewing the latest rankings, News & Info stations lead the pack with ten within the Top 20. Corus has 9 in the Top 20, while CBC has 4, Astral has 2, NewCap has 2, CTV has 1 and Rogers has 1. Toronto's airport and business station is also in the Top 20 (in March 2007, it was the "station" with the most Alexa web traffic).
Curiously, Virgin Radio doesn't appear to be captured accurately by Alexa. It doesn't include any of the Virgin station on their list. When searching Alexa for the individual Virgin station traffic rankings, each market's stations (Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver) don't show up. Instead, only the main domain (virginradio.com) appears (the station sites are found their sub-domains). Collectively, all Virgin Radio station would rank 26th, just behind CHOM and ahead of Rock 101.
Prior to the Virgin flip, Mix 96 in Montreal was a Top 20 online web traffic radio station.
Here's the latest Alexa search for Canada's top 20 radio station traffic rankings (June 2009):
1) CBC Radio - British Columbia (www.cbc.ca/bc) (CBC)
2) Radio Énergie (www.radioenergie.com) (Astral/Anglo & French AC)
3) CKOI FM 96.9 (ckoi.com) (Corus/Anglo & French Hot AC)
4) CKWX - News 1130 (www.news1130.com) (Rogers/News)
5) VOCM Radio (www.vocm.com) (NewCap/News & Info)
6) CFYZ 1280 AM (www.gtaa.com) (Toronto airport & business)
7) 102.1FM The Edge (www.edge.ca) (Corus/New Rock)
8) CBC Radio (www.cbc.ca/radio) (CBC)
9) Country 105 (www.country105.com) (Corus/Country)
10) Q107 FM (www.q107.com) (Corus/Classic Rock)
11) CKNW 980 AM - Vancouver (www.cknw.com) (Corus/News & Info)
12) CBC Radio 3 (radio3.cbc.ca) (CBC)
13) CHUM 104.5 FM (www.chumfm.com) (CTVglobemedia/Adult CHR/Hot AC)
14) HOT 89.9 FM (www.hot899.com) (NewCap/Rhythmic CHR)
15) CFOX 99.3 - The Fox (www.cfox.com) (Corus/Rock)
16) CBC 102.1 FM Calgary (www.cbc.ca/calgary) (CBC)
17) CJAD 800 AM (www.cjad.com) (Astral/News & Info)
18) CJOB 680 (www.cjob.com) (Corus/News & Info)
19) CISN 103 FM (www.cisnfm.com) (Corus/Country)
20) AM 770 CHQR (www.am770chqr.com) (Corus/News & Info)
Here's a quick link to find all Canadian radio stations streaming online. Or here's another good link.
posted by Unknown @ Tuesday, June 02, 2009,
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Most Popular Canadian Radio Stations Online
Labels: Airport Info, Alexa, Canada, CMW, Internet, Radio, Radio Stations, streaming, web trafficNow that the Canadian Music Week Conference is wrapped up and the awards for "Best Stations" handed out, which stations get the most online traffic?
Interestingly, as of today March 12th, the #1 site is not a music format or your typical News/Talk format. It's Airport Talk All The Time on CFYZ 1280 AM and available through www.gtaa.com -- the voice of Canada's busiest international airport, Toronto's Pearson International. They broadcast arrivals, departures, traffic, weather, travel stories and aviation announcements.
In Canada, Alexa says it is ranked 1,138th in total traffic.
3/27 Update: RadioandRecords.com reports that "CFYZ-AM/Toronto -- the Greater Toronto Airports Authority's information station -- is flipping to business talk on April 9 as CFBN. The station will continue running airport traffic reports and travel programming."
#2 CKWX is ranked 3,469th -- with a substantial drop over the past 6 months.
According to Alexa.com's traffic ratings, here are the most visited Canadian radio station sites:1. CFYZ 1280 AM (Pearson International Airport/Toronto)
2. CKWX - News 1130 (Rogers/Vancouver)
3. CKOI FM 96.9 (Corus/Montreal)
4. VOCM Radio (VOCM/Newfoundland)
5. CHUM 104.5 FM (CHUM/Toronto)
6. Radio Énergie (Astral/Montreal)
7. CKNW 980 AM (Corus/Vancouver)
8. 102.1FM The Edge (Corus/Toronto)
9. Mix 96 (Standard/Montreal)
10. CFOX 93.3 - The Fox (Cous/Vancouver)
posted by Unknown @ Monday, March 12, 2007,
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USA Today Gets Makeover, Redesigns Website
Labels: Alexa, brand building, Branding, Buzzmachine, Change, makeover, New Media, redesign, USAToday
USAToday's online version of its newspaper -- USAToday.com -- has been one of my old reliables on the Internet for years. With new websites constantly popping up trying to get popular attention, USAToday.com has been like web comfort food for millions of web users.
Always reliable. Always there. Colorful. Easy to find and digest top mainstream news and pop culture stories. Just the right amount of news to give readers an idea of what's happening today in the USA.
Just like their newsprint version.
That's their brand online, too.
Or, it has been, up until USAToday.com's new "makeover" this weekend.
Change and the Internet seem to go hand-in-hand. Change is inevitable in business. Like yesterday's Jointblog posting, you have to find ways to "move forward". Which is what USAToday.com is doing...moving forward to something they call "networked journalism" (a concepted apparently created along with BuzzMachine's Jeff Jarvis).
According to USAToday, this new design will allow readers to comment on every story on the site, create profiles and blogs, upload photos and interact a lot more.
Here's their official announcement:Big changes are coming to USATODAY.com. Starting this weekend, you'll have more interactive opportunities, see a dramatic new design and find a new way of thinking about the news.
Why the change? It's not like USAToday is also changing their newsprint editions. Their previous online versions were designed to look and feel just like their newspaper. Not anymore. Perhaps that the point, considering the overall newspaper industry's long, slow decline: change to read less like their newspaper and more like online readers.
USATODAY.com's aim is to create a community around the news, one that connects readers to reporting. In its 25 years as "The Nation's Newspaper," USA TODAY has always tried to listen to a variety of readers and understand what's important to them. As the next logical step, we're building the nation's newspaper into the nation's conversation....So, watch the site. Change is coming, and you can be a part of it. (click here to read the rest of the USAToday announcement.)
For years, "The Nation's Newspaper" has served its brand function with excellence in this noisy, distracted mediaworld. It's fast, colorful and easy to read, perfect for commuting on the train or the shuttle flight (or even extended reading on the toilet -- come on now, admit it). And USAToday.com became one of the top websites in the world, built on the same principles: fast, colorful and easy to read. Something you'd want to check out everyday. Sometimes several times a day.
In the past year, web traffic has gone down, according to Alexa (see graph). Which, ultimately, must explain why USAToday is making a change. However, I still don't get the reason for their change. It doesn't make sense. Despite some traffic drop-off, they still are the 525th most-trafficked website in the world!
March 5th update: Looks like the public is giving a collective "thumbs down" as of Day 3 since the changes. USAToday.com has slipped down to a one-week average of 649 most-visited in the world...and down to 856 for yesterday. What will Monday rankings look like when they are updated on Alexa tomorrow?
Now they've done a makeover...and, as a consumer and a media trend watcher, I'm less than pleased with the results so far.
Even on my high-speed broadband, this redesign is clunky and slow-loading for all the graphics and code they've packed onto their pages...including most crucially their homepage.
Is a makeover really going to bump up that traffic ranking when they've just made their site's usage more difficult?
I'm sure there are bugs and fix issues to work out. Change and moving forward is important and needed. And sometimes it is unavoidable. If you must change, protecting the brand still remains critically important. And ideally, the changed user experience will prove better.
Right now, I have to wonder: Is USAToday.com now trying to be a brand they're not?
posted by Unknown @ Sunday, March 04, 2007,
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Instead of a SecondLife, why not Get a First Life
Labels: Alexa, Digital, GetaFirstLife, Jointblog, Media Trend Watching, New Media, Online, SecondLife, web traffic
Last Fall, the online universe of SecondLife was the new media trend buzz. Now that more than 60% of Internet users at home log on through high-speed broadband, it seemed that a tipping point had been reached and passed. Brick-and-mortar business began buying real estate -- and even islands -- with their Linden dollars. People could meet and flirt (and even fornicate) with new "friends".
Suddenly, people could live a new virtual life.
Yawn. Many people found out having a second life can get too complicated. Or boring.
According to Alexa.com, SecondLife remains a popular web destination. But it's growth is slowing way down.
So what are people starting to do if they're not managing their SecondLife anymore. Perhaps revisiting their FirstLife again.
Oh yeah...the job, the family, the real things you're supposed to do.
Alexa says SecondLife is ranked #1,348 in total web traffic...still a strong amount of activity. However, its total reach has dropped significantly since its highest peak right after Christmas.
Interestingly, the tongue-in-cheek website GetaFirstLife.com (with slogans like "Go Outside" and "Your world. Sorry about that.") is rapidly on the rise as Alexa's #2 "Mover and Shaker". It's rose 400% in traffic in the last week and now ranks #5,662 overall (up from 30,994).
No virtual life to live there...but you can get the t-shirt.
posted by Unknown @ Sunday, February 04, 2007,
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