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Yet another milestone

Mahmood Menon, Head of News |
Update: 2014-09-14 12:22:00
Yet another milestone

Milestone, a word that, once again, uttered for banglanews24.com during its four years and two months journey. Over two million of facebook users have knot their ties with banglanews, the largest online news portal in Bangladesh. Banglanews touched this new milestone during noon hours of Sunday.

Statistics say, banglanews portal welcomes 2,117 new readers every 24 hours who come from  Facebook. According to Alexa ranking, 21 percent of banglanews readers are flowed from the most popular social media. On that calculation banglanews presently gets 10,080 new readers in every single day.

It is assumed that a facebook friend visits banglanews site at least once in a day. Rest 79 percent of the visitors come from many other different sources. Thus banglanews calculates a total of 11.5 million of readers visit banglanews during the period when the earth circles once around the sun.

This huge readership has given Banglanews the title of fastest growing online newsportal in Bangladesh. 

The nearest competitor is the online version of a daily newspaper published here. This site attracts 2017 new visitors in a day, which counts 100 less visitors than banglanews. This media is not a full-fledged online, this is a bi-product of a newspaper. So, the nearest online competitor of Banglanews is a media that began its journey six years before the Banglanews was born. 

The latest calculation shows, Banglanews presently attracts 10 new face-book friends in every minute. 

The news portal has created the milestone with the hard labor of each and every worker and there are lots of contribution of them in achieving it.

Recalling everyone’s contribution, Editor-in-Chief of the news portal Alamgir Hossain said, “The credit goes to each and every worker of banglanews.” 

He also observed that the hard labor of the colleagues is the demand of the time. “The present age is the age of new media. The persons, who can adapt with the online media, can be able to be a competent journalist of the age,” he said.

The veteran online journalist also expressed his gratitude and gratefulness to the persons, organisations and businesses who strengthened the financial sustainability of banglanews by extending hands of cooperations.  

Editor-in-chief expressed his gratitude to them who contributed to the forward going efforts of banglanews24.com 

He also said this online newspaper serving the people as some organizations make banglanews financially strong through giving advertisements.

The print media are now emphasizing the needs online version of the newspaper. But they are struggling to cope up with the online race.

Now, people can learn any news within a short time in the online newsportal. Banglanews has been serving the people with latest news as a 24 hours news media.

BDST 2220 HRS, SEP 14, 2014

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