Bristol Media

This week has seen Bristol Media company and freelance members break the 1700 mark with over 3200 email members (who get this e-bulletin on a regular basis).

This is fantastic news and we have it on good authority this makes us one of the biggest creative and media networks in the UK with membership increasing by over 40% in the last 12 months alone.

We thought this marked a great oopportunity to share some more interesting Bristol Media stats with you.

Here goes:

We’ve had over 400 job applications posted via the site since the start of 2009

Unique visitor numbers are now topping the 10,500 mark a month and we’re on target for 130,000 page views a month too

40% of traffic comes from London.

People spend an average of 4.2 minutes on the site per visit.

Most popular sections of the site are:

  1. Jobs
  2. News
  3. Events and Resources
  4. Directory Search
  5. Noticeboard

Top 15 most popular company profiles (and obviously this is helped by company job posts, company news on the homepage and company logo adverts).

  1. Team Rubber
  2. Taxi
  3. Open
  4. Icon
  5. Aardman
  6. Beef
  7. E3
  8. Imagist
  9. S-Cool
  10. Endemol West
  11. Films @ 59
  12. Mason Zimbler
  13. Sift
  14. Corixa
  15. McCan Erickson

Most popular job posted in the last 3 months:

Icon’s position for a runner, which received over 120 individual applications in less than 4 days.

Top 5 most popular news items of the last 3 months:

  1. Fighting the recession
  2. 0117 Announcement
  3. Televisual Visit/Dinner
  4. Drum SW Feature
  5. Marketing Forum

Top 3 most clicked ads in the last 3 months:

  1. Taxi logo
  2. Open logo
  3. Beef logo

Top 10 most popular Google searches (which drives traffic directly to the BM site)

  1. Bristol media (obviously)
  2. Media jobs in Bristol
  3. Digital agencies in Bristol
  4. TV companies in Bristol
  5. Digital jobs
  6. Design jobs
  7. Marketing Bristol
  8. Icon
  9. Endemol
  10. Media Tuesday

We could keep going forever, but hopefully that gives you a flavour of how the web site is rapidly becoming an indispensible tool for the local community. So let’s keep building it up…

Send in all your company news, post any job vacancies you have and generally just keep us informed of what’s going on.

AND PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR COMPANY PROFILE IS UP TO DATE!!!