WINOL VIEWERS

88 viewers for WINOL scheduled bulletin. One of the lowest totals of the academic year I'm afraid - compares with 600 for the launch issue back in November - desperately need Date with Fate and more sport and promo of sport. That said it is not too bad because we are not really adding text stories to the site at the moment. this is because we only have one cohort doing everything (ie when year three moved on, we lost half our team!) and that means we are concentrating on the bulletin. Important to bear that in mind when we are back to full strength in the autumn (with first years as video and print reporters and the re-establishment of a full-blown features section). So it is not as bleak as it looks and 88 is actually still a gigantic audience for any student work (all of which generally gets an audience of zero). But we should have a push on circulation this week - think of stories that will an audience - race row is a good one - then on Tuesday we really must put leaflets around the campus and signs and also spam people on facebook, etc.

WINOL overnight traffic rankings

Winol got 260 unique user sessions on Wednesday for the second bulletin. That's about half the first edition, but still pretty good. This is the well known second edition slump. I reckon it has slackened off because the upload issues with the bulletin meant we were not webcasting at 5pmbang on (the bulletin was done on deadline, but we had horrendous technical problems, including the slowness of he internet connection in the newsroom. Rich did very well to get it up, and we were there at about 5.45. Also the news on the front page is not very grabby. We need another PR push for next week, a remake of the front page and a physical presence around the campus. The good news is that we overtook The Basingstoke Gazette today in the Alexa rankings, and have left the Hampshire Chronicle way behind. The next target would be the Southern Echo but that would mean extending the News Agenda to students at Southampton and Bournemouth Universities... and promoting the site at those places with leaflets or whatever. Interesting... but stick to our local audience focus for now at least... (how this works is - the lower the number, the more readers/users you have.

ECHO...........079
WINOL..........616
BAS GAZETTE....732
HANTS CHRON....787
WESSEX SCENE..1845 (Southampton University Student News service)