{"id":17488,"date":"2010-08-25T07:05:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T14:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17488"},"modified":"2010-08-25T07:26:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T14:26:32","slug":"meroneks-skate-magazine-metrics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17488","title":{"rendered":"Meronek&#8217;s Skate Magazine Metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/magcharts_ThrasherMag.gif.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/magcharts_ThrasherMag.gif.jpeg','popup','width=1118,height=815,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/magcharts_ThrasherMag.gif-tm.jpg\" height=\"145\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Magcharts Thrashermag.Gif\" \/><\/a>For the past five years (starting in June 2005)  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateparkoftampa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skate Park of Tampa&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> tech nerd <strong>Rob Meronek<\/strong> has been logging skateboarding magazine coverage for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateparkoftampa.com\/spot\/sd.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">SPoT&#8217;s Skater Database<\/a><\/strong>. In this time he has kept a record of the ad and editorial pages for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateboardermag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skateboarder Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/theskateboardmag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Skateboard Mag<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/slapmagazine.com.\" target=\"_blank\">Slap<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thrashermagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thrasher<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><em>(graph above right)<\/em>, and <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/skateboarding.transworld.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Skateboarding<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Today he released all his data in a story titled: <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateparkoftampa.com\/spot\/a.aspx?ID=1459\" target=\"_blank\">A Nerdy Analysis of Sketchy Skateboard Industry Paper Trails<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Here is how it works:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For a page to get logged, it simply has to have a skater. Even if they&#8217;re just throwing gang symbols in front of their rims, as long as it has a skater it in, the page is logged as either editorial or advertising along with who the photographer is. I put all this crazy data I&#8217;ve collected since 2005 into a spreadsheet and out popped these Captain Corporate ass charts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While only counting ads with skaters in them skews the total ad pages numbers of the magazines a little, the data does give a great snap shot of what is going on in skateboard print advertising. Look over the data and draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateparkoftampa.com\/spot\/a.aspx?ID=1459\" target=\"_blank\">Skate Park of Tampa<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past five years (starting in June 2005) Skate Park of Tampa&#8217;s tech nerd Rob Meronek has been logging skateboarding magazine coverage for the SPoT&#8217;s Skater Database. In this time he has kept a record of the ad and editorial pages for Skateboarder Magazine, The Skateboard Mag, Slap, Thrasher (graph above right), and Transworld [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17497,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488\/revisions\/17497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}