Category: News; New Media
Date: 14.06.2006
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The BBC News website launches its new Most Popular Now page for users today.
On the page, BBC News website users can find a whole wealth of new information
about which stories are proving most popular or interesting to their fellow
readers.
For the first time visitors to the site can now see which news stories people
are reading most, which stories they are emailing to friends most and which
video clips are being watched most - minute-by-minute throughout the day.
Pete Clifton, Head of BBC News Interactive, says: "This is a fascinating new service for our millions of readers - they will be
able to see exactly what people are reading and watching in any part of the
world in real-time.
"We have a huge amount of information about our traffic and it makes sense that
we share it with the audience."
On the Most Popular Now page BBC News website readers will find a world map
with a list of the ten most popular stories read by users of the site across the
world - data all generated within seconds of the actual pages being read.
To find out what the most popular stories are around the globe readers simply
click on the area of the world they want to know about and the list of top
stories automatically sweeps into the top ten for that region.
As a result
people can compare the stories that come top with European readers with those in
the United States, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere.
Other features include a live news traffic monitor which measures news
consumption and shows whether it is a quieter or busier day than average, and an
archive of text and audio video clips.
Click on the 'Most popular - Day so far' tab and users can see how the
popularity of stories develops and changes hour-by-hour throughout the day.
Readers will be able to find the information via links on the front page and on
the right hand side of every story on the site.
BBC News Website: bbc.co.uk/news
Direct Link to 'Most Popular Now' area: news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/live_stats/html/map.stm
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