If you can’t beat them… blog them, and if you do beat them, blog it!

An assessment of the South African online-media corporate-scape popularity contest.:
(and Media 24 gloating :-), well done to them!

Details in Fin24′s article, I quote just the top 10, local and international here

3rd Quarter: July to September 2005
Domestic traffic (South Africa only)
Publisher

01 Media24
02 MWEB
03 Independent Online
04 Ananzi (Pty) Ltd
05 SuperSport Zone
06 iafrica.com
07 CareerJunction
08 Mail & Guardian Online
09 Johnnic Communications
10 Telkom SA

3rd Quarter: July to September 2005
Total traffic (local & international)
Publisher Unique Browsers Page Impressions

01 Media24
02 Independent Online
03 MWEB
04 Ananzi (Pty) Ltd
05 Mail & Guardian Online
06 iafrica.com
07 SuperSport Zone
08 CareerJunction
09 Johnnic Communications
10 Moneyweb Holdings

The growth of online-ologue is accelerating. Interesting that Telkom even with their monopoly style, goliath footprint, on the South-African net infra-structure is way down at number 10, then again, given the relatively narrow scope of their business and the fact that they are not yet seen as a content provider, they are in interesting company. Telkom’s apparent new-leaf relationship with MyADSL.co.za may be worth watching.

With the growing interest in the blogosphere, but particularly that section of the blogosphere which is, commercially driven member-based community networks, it will be interesting to see how long it takes until some of these new-fangled cyber-monsters start appearing on these lists. (What I’ve seen of South African community blog sites still seem very ‘flat’ and restrictive)