RSSMusic Madness – Big Success So Far
22 Jul 2008 No Comments
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Okay so it’s only day four of a six week tournament, and time will tell if we can hold our readers’ interest for that long (we did for Movie Madness, so it stands to reason…) but I’m over the moon about the results of the tournament so far.
As of this post:
- Pageviews for Music Madness site: 5, 126 – Average per day: 583 – Today alone: 644
- We’re up to 21 Twitter followers for @gimusicmadness
- The 4th bracket closes tomorrow but all total so far, we’ve had over 1,000 votes in the polls, far exceeding the Movie Madness turnout.
- We had a great turnout last Thursday for the Liveblog with the guys, so much so that they wanted to continue it on Friday (traffic dropped, but I think that’s because we didn’t plan and therefore pimp a second day of chat.) The discovery by our senior columnist that Cover It Live was so powerful and yet so easy to use had him dreaming up other applications we can use it for, so even if the turnout had sucked, that alone would have made it worth it. Anytime I convert someone in the newsroom to new things is a total victory for me.
- We had some server stress the first day, (which was a good thing if you think about it
) but Wordpress is holding up magnificently, and handling large volumes of voting really well. - We sold three sponsors, so yay it’s made a little money!
- The combination of print and online to make this thing work has been seamless thanks to good planning. Daily teasers in the paper, house ads and banners, Twitters, and blog posts – at least three of those options were completely free publicity (I don’t know if I can make that claim about print stuff, Do you count cost of ink and space on A-1?
The final bracket voting ends tomorrow at noon, and then I have a wee break where I’ll be building the polls for Round Two. It will be interesting to keep an eye on the interest level in the tourney, both in-house and from our readers. Six weeks is a long time.
And I can’t believe Van Halen’s “Jump” is moving on. I really hate that song.
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