Behind IrishCycle.com: Subscribers — who are readers like you — pay monthly to keep IrishCycle.com going and growing.
After hovering just under 300 active subscribers for a few months, the number is now hovering around 300-301 subscribers.
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The first full year of running IrishCycle.com as a reader-funded website has seen a large jump in page views and visitors — from just under 370,000 views to just under 570,000 views.
The business model of IrishCycle.com, like any open-access reader/listener-funded media, was always based on just a small percentage of the baseline readership subscribing. But a higher level is needed.
Possibly due to the cost of living crisis and similar factors, the current 300 subscribers is 50 fewer than expected at this stage.
Monthly, the number of views and visitors can vary largely (ie when a story has wider appeal or it can be a matter of luck who shares a link), but readership is also trending upwards:
The following shows IrishCycle.com has almost daily updates throughout the year: Light green = 1-2 articles / darker = 3+ articles.
The target is 1-2 articles a day, with a preference to wait and get detail right rather than hit the target always.
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Thank you,
Cian Ginty
Editor, IrishCycle.com
Some articles you might have missed in the last few months:
- Liffey Valley BusConnects project is wake-up call for better design for walking and cycling
- “Critical issue” judge disregarded evidence Sandymount cycleway would be temporary
- Cork is reallocating some space but kind of fudging it at junctions
- Mileage rates increased to nearly 60 cent per km for driving, but left at 8 cent for cycling
- Plan for Dublin’s Eden Quay to tackle junction at Custom House but mixes cycling and buses
- Plan to rapidly reallocate Dublin City Centre space to boost walking, cycling, buses
- Bicycle industry shot itself — and others — in the foot with 45km/h electric “bicycles”
- Plan for 47 tables and 94 chairs for dining on busy Dublin footpath “madness”
- Automated bollards on Limerick’s South Circular Road to allow for car parking and two-way cycling on shared surface
- Rural cycle paths need to be safe and attractive, not full of barriers at every junction
- Learning approach is key to changing our streets, Cork Cycling Symposium told
- Woman who had injury award reduced due to lack of helmet was using DublinBikes
- Limerick transport plan broadly welcomed; but reaching decarbonisation targets “outside the remit of NTA”
- Rainy weather and poor internet signal affect bicycle share in Cork, Limerick, Galway
- Galway needs to overcome the idea you need more roads before anything else changes
- “Oops, we got that wrong,” says Gardaí after wrongly claiming high-vis is mandatory
- Lots of walking and cycling projects planned around Ireland, how many will be high quality?
- Dublin City’s MetroLink stations to have bicycle parking for just 28% predicted demand
- Dept of Transport working on guidelines to help councils progress Active Travel projects
- Dublin councillors keep obstructing cycling projects “time and time again”, says Cllr
- First of 41 new Irish Rail carriages arrives to enable increase in seating and bicycle capacity on existing intercity trains
- Ireland’s only two red light cameras left idle for nearly 7 years
- Liffey Cycle Route costs spiral to “above €100m” so that cars can stay on quays
- Fingal Coastal Way hit with fearmongering and misinformation — deadline extended, meetings rescheduled for Balbriggan