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| Drudge Report Traffic Plunges 45% |
| 2020-10-31 |
| Get woke, go broke, to borrow a phrase... [NY Post, via Insty] - The Drudge Report posted a 45 percent decline in web traffic in September as the site alienated its core readers by turning against President Trump ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The data — derived from comScore, which tracks the industry — were released in a report by TheRighting, a website that analyzes traffic to right-leaning websites. TheRighting told The Post that the Drudge Report had 1,291,000 unique visitors in September, according to data supplied by comScore, down from 2,340,000 in the same month a year ago. September’s eye-popping decline marks the ninth month in a row that the political news aggregation website run by reclusive founder Matt Drudge has seen traffic fall, TheRighting said. The plunge comes at a time when demand for political news has been soaring on both sides of the aisle leading up to a highly charged presidential election. And experts say it’s directly tied to the Drudge Report’s sudden and unexpected switch earlier this year from a conservative-leaning news outlet to one that’s decidedly anti-Trump. "It’s catastrophic what has happened to his web traffic," said Matt Lysiak, author of "The Drudge Revolution." "He’s on a fast track to irrelevance." Maybe he's already there - I stopped reading Drudge about six months ago and I know I'm one of the last Rantburgers to do so. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #6 No one respects, or trusts a turn-coat. Even the persons benefiting from a such a person act usually only pay them off, give them a figure head role/title/rank and isolate them. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2020-10-31 15:42 |
| #5 "right-wing" is such a harsh term. lol |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-10-31 14:10 |
| #4 When drudge report became crock at least three more right wing news sites popped up to replace it. |
| Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2020-10-31 13:13 |
| #3 I doubt Drudge is there anymore, and the people who run it now probably see it as a loss leader/influence op rather than as a moneymaker. He got his thirty pieces and probably doesn't care, either. |
| Posted by: charger 2020-10-31 11:06 |
| #2 poor babys |
| Posted by: 746 2020-10-31 10:57 |
| #1 If rumour is correct that he sold it some time ago, then it is merely his reputation rather than his bank account that is suffering. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-10-31 10:24 |