Jamaica Gleaner in buy out talks with VibesNetwork

Kingston, Jamaica –Jamaica Gleaner, the 106 year old national daily newspaper with its online brands jamaica-gleaner.com and go-jamaica.com are in talks to buy a site or two from the Delroy Frazer-led Vibes Network, industry sources told us.

It’s almost no secret that the Gleaner’s online properties are heavily trafficked by Jamaicans at home and abroad and its 21^st most visited site by Jamaica. The company is now in an aggressive push to increase their site traffic and revenues by rolling out more features their online visitors have been asking for such as more of a social networking element which is hugely popular globally.

That’s why buying a site with built in online branding and traffic is a good fit, hence the talks with Frazer and his Vibes Network – a five site network of social networking communities with its marquis brand VibesConnect.com. In the Network there is also villagehub.com, cupidvibes.com,mivibes.com and christianvibes.com. We were told that the lifely sites to be sold are villagehub.com and cupidvibes.com.

About Jamaica-Gleaner.com and go-jamaica.com

Data from Alexa.com, the web information company shows that Jamaica-gleaner.com’s traffic is primarily from the United States at 34% and then Jamaica with 30.1% with Canada following with 7% and the UK 5%. Pretty much following the Jamaican/Caribbean Diaspora trend. The site also has 1423 other sites linking to it. It rates its site load speed as very slow, average page takes 5sec to load and 84% of the sites online are faster.

For go-jamaica.com the traffic going to the site from the US and from Jamaica is almost tied, with US having 35.6% and Jamaica 34.%

About VibesNetWork

VibesNetwork is Alexa.com shows that vibesconnect.com’s traffic is primarily Jamaican with 26%, 14.2% from United States, Trindad 11% with the long tail theory kicking in with countries such as Egypt, UK, St Vincent, Barbados and Canada, Antigua, Germany and Morocco commanding an average of 2-3% of the site’s traffic. The Business Model for the VibesNetwork has been google ad and affliliate marketing ads on their sites.