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noname2200 said:
Mr. Fister said:

Strange, I've heard otherwise. I could've sworn their was a topic on this forum that talked about IGN's viewership being a fraction of what it was even a few years ago.


Not according to this (http://corp.ign.com).

"We capture one of the top concentration of men ages 18-34 online*, driving over 37.2MM unique views and 532MM page views each month with leading sites including IGN and AskMen. For millions of guys, we have cemented our reputation as an authoritative voice on games, entertainment and men's lifestyle by delivering sharp opinions and ground-breaking visual content. For you, we offer the creativity, authenticity and relevance to help you engage our vital, premium audience.

*Threshold of 1 Million target reach
comScore Media Metrix, March 2010 WW; Nielsen @Plan Rel 1 2010

With a male composition index pushing one and a half times the online average and heaps of traffic, our original properties together reach 1 in 5 men online in the 18-34 age range. Simply put, we do a better job of applying your media dollar directly to the young male demographic you need to reach. Matched by our breakthrough creative and guy acumen, our pitch adds up to integrated, targeted campaigns with room to scale: it could only be better if our rate cards were printed on crisp bacon."

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There's more on that page, but it looks like they're doing fine as-is.

Well, if that's the parent company's focus (Men 18-34) then it's no wonder the IGN Nintendo team was feeling progressively more out-of-place with a system that's very broadly appealing but not geared towards that demographic.     Nor would any change be likely since all their websites market the same market.

What that means is that someone should start a website geared towards the Kinect/Move/Wii/iphone/DS/social media games crowd.



 

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Gamerace said:

Well, if that's the parent company's focus (Men 18-34) then it's no wonder the IGN Nintendo team was feeling progressively more out-of-place with a system that's very broadly appealing but not geared towards that demographic.     Nor would any change be likely since all their websites market the same market.

What that means is that someone should start a website geared towards the Kinect/Move/Wii/iphone/DS/social media games crowd.

The closest we have to that right now is whattheyplay.com, which isn't too bad in that regard.  They also cover the former-gamer-turned-daddy, who still has the interest but not the time.



MaxwellGT2000 said:


Alexa had them going down on viewership overall, but that seems to be talking about the 18-34 male demographic, they tried to launch a separate site catered to women and other gamers but it didn't seem to pan out.  So it might just be viewership for the that target demographic is up but overall is down. 

True, but for advertisers that's the most lucrative demographic on the web.  It's akin to saying "I lost lots of silver, but doubled my gold!" 

Don't mistake me, I'm no fan of IGN, but in terms of their business model I don't think they have much incentive to change at the moment.



Watch as Wii game reviews really begin to plummet.



Rockstar: Announce Bully 2 already and make gamers proud!

Kojima: Come out with Project S already!

huaxiong90 said:

Watch as Wii game reviews really begin to plummet.



Poor Conduit 2.  Good thing it supports classic controller too 'cause HD gamers/reviews can't aim worth a darn and always blame the controls for their poor performance.  And call even the best Wii graphics 'like PS2'.  Etc.



 

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noname2200 said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:


Alexa had them going down on viewership overall, but that seems to be talking about the 18-34 male demographic, they tried to launch a separate site catered to women and other gamers but it didn't seem to pan out.  So it might just be viewership for the that target demographic is up but overall is down. 

True, but for advertisers that's the most lucrative demographic on the web.  It's akin to saying "I lost lots of silver, but doubled my gold!" 

Don't mistake me, I'm no fan of IGN, but in terms of their business model I don't think they have much incentive to change at the moment.


That demographic is also far more likely to know what adblock is and use it, other groups are far less likely and even more likely to click on an ad that interests them.



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And so dies IGNintendo

 

If they really wanted to get hits for that side, they'd just make Daemon Hatfield the king-god of reviews for the Nintendo side. Figure if you can't win the audience legitimately, you might as well get rage clicks with the captain of the trolls



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Mr Khan said:

And so dies IGNintendo

 

If they really wanted to get hits for that side, they'd just make Daemon Hatfield the king-god of reviews for the Nintendo side. Figure if you can't win the audience legitimately, you might as well get rage clicks with the captain of the trolls


Oh didn't you know?  Daemon was promoted, I forgot the title of the position he's essentially head of the editors now, brilliant stuff right?



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MaxwellGT2000 said:
Mr Khan said:

And so dies IGNintendo

 

If they really wanted to get hits for that side, they'd just make Daemon Hatfield the king-god of reviews for the Nintendo side. Figure if you can't win the audience legitimately, you might as well get rage clicks with the captain of the trolls


Oh didn't you know?  Daemon was promoted, I forgot the title of the position he's essentially head of the editors now, brilliant stuff right?

Promoted?

 

....

Yeah, that actually seems about right <_>



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Mr Khan said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
Mr Khan said:

And so dies IGNintendo

 

If they really wanted to get hits for that side, they'd just make Daemon Hatfield the king-god of reviews for the Nintendo side. Figure if you can't win the audience legitimately, you might as well get rage clicks with the captain of the trolls


Oh didn't you know?  Daemon was promoted, I forgot the title of the position he's essentially head of the editors now, brilliant stuff right?

Promoted?

 

....

Yeah, that actually seems about right <_>

Here you go I found the actual bit where I found out he was promoted

Senior Editor Daemon Hatfield here to shit up your IGN



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