_Rofl - really...a Gawker site directly competing against the person they are talking about. lulz is an under-statement...except i was and am wrong. This was a pretty good article. Sorry!_

_Mentions Simmons isn't even sure who Grantland competes with. And ESPN never reveals Grantland's revenue, even to Simmons, etc.

Some stats (from the Quora post on Grantland's compete from 2011 or 2012, it is up more than 10x:

Unlike dollar figures, we do have good traffic data. These are February and March 2015 unique visitor numbers from comScore for Grantland and a few of its competitors—this is my classification of competitors, as Simmons said he isn’t sure who he is competing with: February March SB Nation 21,009,000 20,298,000 Deadspin 11,943,000 8,809,000 Grantland 5,303,000 6,003,000 The A.V. Club 4,901,000 4,406,000

Lol tho they don't put Bleacher Report's numbers here. SB Nation is a far cry from Bleacher Report prob...so this way Deadspin can be number 2? And AV Club thrown in there prob as a differential and having less traffic than Deadspin too. classic_


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