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Ever since Vice decided to get into the cable TV game, the self-assured digital news and lifestyle publisher has been under the microscope. That came blaringly to the fore last month when Variety reported that Vice's web traffic plunged in February. But after free-falling 17.4 percent, from 59.5 million unique visitors in January to 49.2 in February, Vice rebounded nearly all the way back in March, drawing 58.3 million uniques. So what caused Vice's huge fall—and subsequent Phoenix-like rise—the past two months? Ironically, it was smaller sites that Vice bundles with its own traffic in an effort to boost its overall numbers for sales purposes. A deeper look into comScore data shows that Vice itself didn't drop at all—unique visitors on Vice.com and its owned and operated channels like Broadly and Noisey actually gained visitors in each of the first three months of 2016. In March, Vice had its best month ever with its content garnering 27.9 million uniques. Like other digital publishers, Vice engages in practice known as "traffic assignment," handling ad sales for smaller viral destination sites like OMGFacts, Dose and Distractify and counting their traffic numbers. The February drop came from Distractify, whose visitors declined 68 percent from January. (Those extra sites collectively rebounded 28.5 percent in March.) This practice, while giving Vice and its advertisers a traffic boost, can also have an adverse affect because of the volatile nature of these sites. ... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

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