2 Million Page Views Later, I Have A Lot Of People To Thank
It's been two and a half years now since I started this blog and in that time, amazingly the blog has done over 2M page views. Traffic to the blog continues to climb and is on track to do 1.5M page views this year alone. None of this would have been possible without the continued support of many other bloggers and sponsors for whom I need to thank.
A lot of my traffic comes from other writers and websites who nicely link to many of my posts. Many thanks to Steve at Last100.com, Rich at DataCenterKnowledge.com, Rob at TelecomRamblings.com, Rafat and his team at PaidContent.org, the entire crew at NewTeeVee.com and GigaOM.com, Andy at Beet.tv, Dan at Silicon Alley Insider, the team at Engadget.com, Larry at OnlineVideoPublishing.com, Pete at FierceOnlineVideo.com, Ben at OnlineVideoWatch.com, Mark at ReelSEO.com, Dave at ZatzNotFunny.com and many of the other sites, including vendor blogs, who continue to link to my content.
I also need to thank all those sites that syndicate my content including SeekingAlpha.com, Yahoo! Finance, WashingtonPost.com, NewYorkTimes.com and BusinessInsider.com
In addition to those who have linked to the blog, many of the vendors in the industry have also supported the blog by coming on board as sponsors. My thanks to the sponsors I've had over the past two years including: Adobe, Akamai, EdgeCast, Ignite Technologies, Internap, Kontiki, Level 3, Limelight Networks, Microsoft, NaviSite, NetStairs, Ortiva Wireless, PEER 1, Skytide, Tremor Media and my newest sponsors coming on board, ChinaCache, The FeedRoom and Sorenson Media.
Also, while the TypePad platform is not perfect, I have to thank them as well for providing a blogging platform that has allowed me to host and run this site for only $99 a year.
I've had a lot of fun over the past two years, have written 804 posts and received 2,987 comments. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the conversations taking place on the blog and I look forward to continuing to hopefully write about topics that are of interest to the industry and community.
Hi Dan, Thanks for the link and mention. Keep up the great coverage.
- Steve, last100
Posted by: Steve | Monday, July 27, 2009 at 02:40 PM
Dan, Congratulations and keep at it.
I look upon this blog as one of the most sober perspectives I've ever seen in the online video space. best wishes
Posted by: preetam mukherjee | Monday, July 27, 2009 at 02:43 PM
Dan, while I don't always agree with your vision for the future of this technology, I do respect the fact that of all the blogs I read, yours always asks the hard questions, you don't let companies get away with anything and you don't write the same stuff I read on ten other blogs. You always bring a perspective to the story and for that I thank you.
Posted by: Steve G. | Monday, July 27, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Nice job Dan. Your posts are always well written and thoughtful.
Rob
Posted by: Rob Green | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Keep up the good work, Dan. Your CDN economics analysis is authoritative.
Posted by: Mike Wolf | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 12:09 PM
"host and run this site for only $99 a year"
Sigh... I do all the heavy lifting and pay MediaTemple $40-$60/mo on top of it for my self-hosted blog.
And thanks for the shout-out!
Posted by: DaveZatz | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 07:21 PM
Congratulations to you Dan, you deserve it and thanks for being such a wonderful resource for news and information for the space.
PS, would love to know how you get NYT.com and others to syndicate your content..
Keep up the wonderful work. I dont know how you find the time with everything else that you are doing :-)
Posted by: mark | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 02:48 AM