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http://diretube.com
Ethiopian Music Video Website released by a young Ethiopian From Dire Dawa.

That is why i love there Work! So please consider this kind of websites too even though they rank Low on Alexa.

Go Ethiopia!

You are right. Tadias is refreshing with truthful & relevant news for us – but then again their agenda is not to start more wars. I don’t visit ethiomedia but I had to check it out after reading Tadias’ article regarding the top 10 Ethiopian sites, I wanted to know if it was still on the same bs – yep it still was.

I recently started reading Tadias & I love it. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for the referral on other sites. I will check them out.

It is sad that as Ethiopians we constantly fail to be original. I am not seeing many show interest or dedication to a principle. EPRP and its affiliates still harp on the past. The rest simply holler from their ethnic ghettoes.

In other words, number of hits is not a true indicator of quality. My advise is IF YOU DON’T LIKE WHAT YOU READ DON’T CLICK AND MAKE THEM MONEY. THE POWER TO DENY THEM VOICE IS AT YOUR FINGER TIPS!

However, in terms of content, organization, and excellence, I will vote for Tadias. Go see for yourself.

To begin with, it has the wrong map of Ethiopia (it’s a new one bc I’ve never seen Ethiopia drawn that way) where certain portions of Eritrea is apart of Ethiopia. I think they don’t know that the monarch/feudal days are over and that they can’t bring back haile selassie – nor will they get Eritrea back (regardless of what their latest article says).

I find it hilarious that they refuse to recognize self-determination when it comes to Eritreans but yet they want to add the Oromo Liberation and the Ogaden National Liberation Movement links to their site – like they erally support those movements.

How stupid are they?? So it’s okay for some parts of the country to fight for self determination, as long as it furthers their political agenda, of course, but others (Eritreans) don’t have a right to self determination.

I wonder if there’s anyone with an ounce of intelligence on their board. Instead of trying to unite us- they want us to continue fighting that war our parents generation fought. I guess some Ethiopians won’t respect our diverse population if they can’t control and benefit from it.

Don’t worry, Nazret.com is #1 accoding to (YES) Nazret.com. Mulat posted the link:

From Nazret.com: “Marking the end of Ethiopian Year, it is time to look back and give ranking to the 25 best Ethiopian news media sources in the world with focus on Ethiopia. nazret.com is the most popular Ethiopian website according to Alexa, and it is not included in this ranking.

The ranking will be based on 10 important measurements. The grading system gives a score of 10 points if the media is excellent and a score of 0 (Zero) points if it is poor. Many Ethiopians from all political, religious, ethnic and other backgrounds are surveyed to get these comprehensively and thoroughly graded scores. And since the grading system uses 10 qualities or measurements, the maximum score possible is 100 points.”

These top 25 news websites and newspapers are:

1) Addis Neger 79.5 points
2) Addis Fortune 74 points
3) Addis Admass 70.5 points
4) Reporter 70 points
5) Ethiopia Zare 69.5 points
6) Ethiopian Review 69 points
7) Abbi Weekly 68.5 points
8) Jimma Times 68 points
9) Capital 66 points
10) Informer 65.5 points
11) Abugida Info 65 points
12) Ethioforum 64.5 points
13) Daily Monitor 64 points
14) Tadias 63.5 points
15) Oromoindex 63 points
16) Ethiopia First 62.5 points
17) Ethiomedia 61 points
18) Abbay Media 59.5 points
19) Mahder 58 points
20) Addis Voice (tie) 57 points
21) Ethio-lion (tie) 57 points
22) Ethio-politics 56.5 points
23) Gadaa 56 points
24) Aigaforum 54.5 points
25) Cyberethiopia 53.5 points

Longtime Yahoo Exec Joins Quantcast

After nearly a decade, Yahoo’s Todd Teresi is moving on. His new employer, Quantcast, expects the longtime Yahoo exec’s knowledge of both advertising operations and publisher inventory management to inform product development and growth. Of course, Teresi’s relationships with publishers and understanding of their needs are big pluses when it comes to attracting new clients for the audience measurement firm.

As is the case with many online ad businesses, data is at the heart of what Quantcast does, and that has been a major element of Teresi’s work at Yahoo. In describing Quantcast’s value proposition, he suggested, “Think about them in terms of the asset and the infrastructure that they built…that base level, census level, database level…what can you do with that asset? There’s a variety of different ways Quantcast can take that asset and leverage it.”

Much of Quantcast’s data is gleaned through direct measurement of publisher traffic, or determined through panel-based audience estimates. The company, founded in 2005, provides information on site audience characteristics like audience gender makeup, and which site visitors are “Passers-By” as opposed to “Addicts.”

Quantcast received a second round of funding totaling $20 million in January, and at the time noted plans to bulk up its publisher-aimed offerings and supplement its staff. Earlier this year, the company launched a search tool aimed at media planners that provides lists of Web sites based on defined audience characteristics such as gender, household income, or education level. Here is the link if you want to learn more about the company.

We have to see global audience,than U.S. only.I got the following web page describing the global reach(traffic) of Ethiopian websites.tadias is at 23rd position globally-currently.

http://www.ethiosurf.com/mostpopular.html

1 nazret 54,945 Web Media
2 ethiopianreview 83,514 Web Media
3 ethiomedia.com 107,224 Web Media
4 telecom.net.et 128,443 ISP
5 ethiopianairlines.com 163,309 Travel
6 ethioforum.org 172,550 Web Media
7 abugidainfo.com 173,659 Web Media/TV
8 ethiopianreporter.com 175,953 Web Media/Newspaper
9 addiszefen.com 216,357 Music
10 aigaforum.com 218,033 Web Media
11 realethiopia.com 229,200 Travel Info

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You raise a good point about copyright abuse by most websites edited by Ethiopians living outside their country. The newspapers in Ethiopia should monitor this. The most active abuser is the website http://www.nazret.com because i see them copying news articles from Capital newspaper in Ethiopia and even from ENA. But it is hard to believe that they have capacity to monitor the copyright violation. For example, many Ethiopian songs are being illegally copied and distributed on Youtube. The Diaspora is a big market for the singers and artists in Ethiopia, but sadly, it is no more because most of them can get everything for free on youtube.com, ethiotube.com or other websites. This kills the incentive to work on music industry, but i hope the Ethiopians living outside our country have the courage to follow the rule of law and copyright regulations.

What is astonishing to me are the internal numbers. The gender gap in most of the sites are incredible (with the exception of high number of females on Tadias and somewhat on Ethiopia Zare), the rest sound like men night out in cyberspace. If it was in my neighborhood here…most would be labeled THE BLACK GAY BAR.

Where are all the women?

Here is another project for you Tadias. I bet you if you commission a study, you will find more Ethiopian immigrant women have college degrees than Ethiopian men in America. That’s simply a fact.

We work our butt off to succeed in mainstream America, and the men are busy eating each other on Nazret, EthioMedia and Ethiopian Review. THAT IS JUST FACT. Look at the numbers.

Seni

ironically, it seems like the original websites like addis fortune, addis neger, capital, jima times and reporter do not have good rankings because others steal news from them. anyway, i visit ethiomedia website just to check the links so take it easy.

let us be humble and respect the hard workers inside ethiopia instead of boasting which diaspora website duplicated news faster.

inside ethiopia, they are dodging bullets and suffering from government persecution and harrassment while ethiomedia, nazret and tadias steal their hardwork. let us be real

may god protect them and our country

There is only 44 days left to the election, and you guys are joking about websites? I know you need a break, but please get back to work

Aradoch and gobezoch !

Helina

I prefer Bernos people who come up with something of thier own.

I know it is difficult to gather so many websites and analyse them using some traffic ranking tools. I am not sure how or why you chose Quantcast for this analysis (you may have your own reasons behind) but if you google the word traffic ranking and web traffic ranking … or any thing to do with traffic the first site you will get is Alexa.com which is one of the best traffic ranking and analysis tool. the other thing is that averaging is another thing , meaning using various tools and take the average… take more samples from different tools and do the maths. Each ranking tool has its own way of ranking .. some just gives you the passed by visit as a rank .. for example if you make a website your home page … whenever you launch your internet browser you will be counted as a visitor … then the other question is how does the users / visitors computer act towards cookies.

This is just to give you an idea of what could be a factor. One thing for sure is that yes ethiomedia is one of the best site out there. Finally I would like to say keep up your good jobs.

Heero

If I am not mistaken this was the phone # 703-746-8920 IF NOT CALL 411 AND FIND OUT. IT IS LOCATED IN ALEXANDRIA, VA. 20 MINUTES FROM DC.

That is my favorite site

But keep in mind the data above is from last month and only U.S. visitors. So I think your argument would have been valid, if the Tadias results were not focused on a specific segment of readers, i.e, the Tadias Target (U.S. audience primarily).

I am wondering if Tadias is including global numbers or only U.S. for the final numbers in December?

Peace

Compete also gives you an estimated number of visitors, as does Quantcast. You will notice large deviations in the data for some sites, but that is expected as traffic estimation is difficult.

One advantage Quantcast provides over other traffic sites is the addition of demographic data. Gender, age, education, income and race are shown to provide a rough make-up of your visitors. You can compare these numbers to your Google Analytics data to gauge the accuracy.

I actually Research these data all the time since I advertise my website on all of them.

Ethiopian Review and CyberEthiopia are the top two- both of them have sent me their actually analytics… since I asked for it before I give them my Mullah-

I also advertise on Tadias ena I know which site have the most traffic- so I am not too baised.

Nazret Ethiopian Review Ethiopiamedia and CyberEthiopia are top four in no particular order -

Cyberethiopia is dropping off and Ethiopian review and Nazret are on the rise.

The rest of the data is completely OFF.

The best way to see traffic details is to merge the data of Alexa and Compete together but even those are not accurate since they go by trending via a toolbar software

So techy sites will get higher ranking on some sites than others because some site vistors are more likely to have more web savvy with toolbar vistors than other sites.

Congratulations to Ethio Media for the gold. Ethiopian Review for the Silver and Nazret for the third spot.

I look forward to your comprehensive results in December.

Keep it up, keep it up….

From your humble admirer who has followed your success for the last several years.

Thank you!

I must admit that I am biased towards Tadias…I just love it and, of course, the presentation is more to my test. I guess I am on of your 31% non-Ethiopian fans !!!

Thank you again for the information!

Amesegnalew

According to movers and shakers traffic graph, Ethiomedia.com is not even in the 100,000 top most visited sites of the world.

You can check the traffic ranking on http://www.alexa.com/

Ethiomedia cries for free press. But he screened and avoided the negative comments on this topic. How do I know? My friends spoke about this biased assessement.

Your cry for blocking of media is “ye Azo Enba“. You are blocking us here in the free world. Shame on you, Ethiomedia!

Look what the rank says at nazret.com a week ago

http://nazret.com/blog/index.php?blog=17&title=ethiopia_top_25_best_ethiopian_news_webs&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

And they posted once 22K visitors based on google analytics so how Quantcast took the survey is questionable.

Actually I like

1. nazret.com
2. addisneger.com
3. addisfortune.com
4. ethiomedia.com
5. capitalethiopia.com
6. ethiopianreporter.com

The amzing thing is cyberethiopia is abandoned for the last 2 years I don’t know how they become within 10 range.

So ethiomedia, ethiopianreview and nazret.com are the TOP 3 copyright violators.
congradulations..lol

This ranking should be labeled “Top 10 Ethiopian Copyright violators”

Guest 1 – Abay media and Addis Voice are both listed. I am sure the demographics is collected through computer IP addresses. For example you have your own IP address that is unique to you. And, it may surprise you, but many websites always track where you go,what you do, what you buy online, what you read, ext…

So if you are one to visit around some kinky webistes then that’s recorded too. So be careful

How is it possible to collect the demography and income status of these visitors from either making comments on these websites or reading their articles posted on these websites.

Tadias, have more links and you will be the number one Ethiopian website for residents of North America.

God bless

I’m not sure what your guidelines are but there are simply way too many Ethiopian sites that are missing in the list – even according to Quantcast. Here are some examples:

addiszefen.com (18.9K)
ginbot7.org (12.5K)
ethiotube.net (9.1K)
ethioview.com (8.8K)
cyberethiopia.com (7.2K)

From the Editors:
The complete listing will be released in December and includes Ethiopia-related websites in several categories including news, business, art, fashion, entertainment, music, internet-radio and non-profit organizations. You may email your website for consideration to info@tadias.com.

Congrats to Ethio Media, Ethiopian Review and Nazret.

Kind of surprised here though…I am a big fun of Nazret so I thought the whole world hangs out at Nazret. Gosh, I was wrong. Who knew? I didn’t even know Ethio Media and Ethiopian Review ever existed.

Thanks Tadias for this great resource!

1. Why did you choose the ranking of only US visitors to the websites?? you have to use all world visitors

2. The websites from Ethiopia (addis neger, addis fortune, jimma times, capital, addis admass) are from newspapers so they should not be in the ranking of “websites”

If you want to measure them, you have to measure how many newspapers they sell inside ethiopia.

3. Why are you trying to give tadias.com high ranking??

Long Live to Ethiomedia and Abreham family in North West.

God Bless Ethiopia.