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10 million and more reasons to be cheerful: RenewEconomy page views surge in 2018

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The huge interest in the clean energy transition – and the technologies and the policies and politics that go with it – continued to grow in 2018, with more than 10 million page views to RenewEconomy so far this calendar year.

That represents a jump of 30 per cent over the same period a year ago, and also drew the interest of more than two million unique visitors. And while Australia was the centre of our attention, one-quarter of those unique visitors came from overseas, including half from the US.

At the same time as growing the readership of RenewEconomy, we also launched our electric-vehicle speciality publication The Driven, which has attracted nearly 500,000 page views in just over three months, and in November had more than 57,000 unique visitors. That’s more than 10 times the number of EV and hybrid drivers in Australia! Must be a market there somewhere!.

Readership of One Step Off The Grid has also grown, doubling since the re-design of the parent web-site earlier this year and now averaging some 100,000 page views a month.

On top of this, our podcast series’ have also attracted a huge amount of interest, with more than 400,000 downloads across the three series – Energy Insiders, Solar Insiders, and The Driven.

Thanks to our readers – the regulars and part-timers and drop-ins – and to our sponsors and advertisers. If you wish to subscribe to our free daily newsletter, please go here, and if you have an advertising query, please email sam.reneweconomy@gmail.com.

Giles Parkinson is founder and editor-in-chief of Renew Economy, and founder and editor of its EV-focused sister site The Driven. He is the co-host of the weekly Energy Insiders Podcast. Giles has been a journalist for more than 40 years and is a former deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review. You can find him on LinkedIn and on Twitter.

Giles Parkinson

Giles Parkinson is founder and editor-in-chief of Renew Economy, and founder and editor of its EV-focused sister site The Driven. He is the co-host of the weekly Energy Insiders Podcast. Giles has been a journalist for more than 40 years and is a former deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review. You can find him on LinkedIn and on Twitter.

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