no one i have ever spoken to irl has ever heard of any whiskey sites until i told them about them@MattyFTM said:
@GunslingerPanda said:
@NekuCTR said:
they're the largest Comic website in the world
lolwut? No they're not. Not even close.
Yes they are:
That's from the official Whiskey Media website.
Of course you could argue that they're skewing stats to try and appeal to advertisers, but they're certainly not far off. I mean, no matter how hard you skew your stats, you could never claim GB was the biggest gaming website on the net. Yet Comic Vine can make the claim to be the largest comic website on the net. And if you do a Google search for "comics" the only things above them are webcomics, the official pages for Marvel and DC comics, and the Wikipedia page on comics. I know google isn't a perfect way of judging website popularity and size but it's a decent indicator. Comic Vine is fucking HUGE in comics.
Also, I'll leave you with this. Here are the site traffic stats for Comic Vine and Giant Bomb respectively. If you look back to last year, you'll notice that in July 2011 (which I assume is when Comic Con was) Comic Vine got around 215,000 unique visitors a day for a short period. In contrast, the most Giant Bomb has ever got in a day is around 170,000, even during E3 and other really busy times. Obviously normally Giant Bomb is pulling in quite a few more visitors than Comic Vine, but that says far more about the audience size than it does about the websites. Comic Vine is a huge website. A Juggernaut in comic book websites.
Also, on the original topic of subscriber content from the other sites - it's far easier for a site with 5 editorial staff to produce extra content than it is for a site with 2 or 1 staff to do that.
I googled "comics" and comic vine didn't show up till the 8th page beneath much more popular comic sites like CBR, Comics Alliance and IGN's comic site. Also speaking from personal experience, I have a large group of friends who collect comic books and none of them visit CV or had even heard of it until I mentioned it to them.
And I don't take issue with Comic Vine's popularity over Giant Bomb since I'm not a child who wants to go pee in my neighbour's garden, I just take issue with the disingenuous way in which Whiskey speak about Comic Vine in calling it the "largest" comic site. Well, it's a wiki, so yes it's the largest in that it has more pages than the bloody bible, but the way they use the word and imply they are talking about the size of the fanbase always leaves a very sour taste in my mouth.
I clearly need better friends, right?
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