Marketplace’s most viral stories: March 2014
Our most popular social stories from March 2014.
Thoughts, disclaimers, bad jokes, etc.: This is our rundown of Marketplace’s top stories on Marketplace.org, Facebook, Twitter, reddit, LinkedIn, and Stitcher during February 2014. Our most popular story was a look at the struggles of the historically black college, Morris Brown College, a school that’s managed to stay afloat with only 35 students. Our other top stories resonated for different reasons: Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal’s ride-along with a paparazzi photographer drew viewers to our video segment with promises of genuine celebrity-sighting. And the novelty of a college professor choosing to live in a dumpster was too much to resist for social media users.
Most viewed on Marketplace.org: These were our most visited stories in March 2014, even if the article was posted before the month.
APM: Marketplace on Facebook: Facebook posts are sorted by “total reach” on the Marketplace page, essentially the number of people who saw that post, because they like Marketplace on Facebook or saw the post through their friends. This list includes Facebook posts from March 2014.
1. Cars.com and the great newspaper experiment
Post by APM: Marketplace.
2. Everything must go
Post by APM: Marketplace.
3. How to unsend an email
Post by APM: Marketplace.
Most traffic to Marketplace.org from Facebook
@MarketplaceAPM on Twitter: Defining success on Twitter can mean a few things. Knowing which article was clicked most is good for our main website, but lots of retweets lets us know we’ve got strong Twitter community that wants to share our stories. There’s a couple of different categories that mean success:
reddit: Articles on reddit are sorted by which stories received the most upvotes, basically reddit’s equivalent to Facebook’s likes. reddit is a fickle beast, so you can’t really predict what will do well there, and often times its users will pick up on stories long after they were first published.
Dynamic tolling, aka “Lexus Lanes,” appears to be a prestige good (Economics)
Our accounts deficit is at its lowest point in 14 years (Politics)
Ukrainian protests follow oligarchs to London (Foodforthought)
LinkedIn: Sorted by most traffic to Marketplace.org from LinkedIn. LinkedIn tends to like employment and technology focused stories, which explains why a story on hiring-practices was the top link last month, as well as why our piece on Netflix is still going strong on the site.
Stitcher: Stitcher is one of our most popular audio platforms that allows people to share and listen to individual audio segments.