Libero (English: "Free") is an Italian web portal owned by Italiaonline and founded by Infostrada in 1994 as a website to assist users in browsing the Internet, which at the time still had a fee, and in configuring an e-mail. Alongside Virgilio.it, a web portal created in 1996, and the two most widely read newspapers, Corriere della Sera and la Repubblica, Libero is a household name within Italian online news.[1] Alongside Virgilio, Libero was the local-web complementation for large international sites like Google and Facebook among websites attracting the most online traffic in Italy.[2]
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Type of site | Web portal |
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| Available in | 1 languages |
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| Founded | 1994 |
| Country of origin | Italy |
| Area served | Italy |
| Owner | Italiaonline S.r.l. |
| Founder(s) | Infostrada S.p.A. |
| URL | libero |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 1994 |
| Current status | Active |
In May 2007, Libero was among the top 30 brand of the month in Italy, with over 10.5 million unique visitors, ahead of Yahoo!, Alice ADSL, eBay, the Italian Wikipedia, and Microsoft, and behind only Google and MSN/Windows Live.[3] By June 2010, it was listed 8th among the top ten websites generting the most unique users in Italy at over 13 million, behind Google, Facebook, YouTube, MSN/Windows Live/Microsoft Bing, Virgilio, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, and ahead of Wikipedia and Blogger. Libero News was listed 4th among the top 10 news websites at over 5 million uniques visitors, behind la Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, and TGcom, and ahead of La Stampa (La Stampa.it), Quotidiano.net, Virgilio Notizie, Google News, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Lettera43, Il Post, and Linkiesta (Linkiesta.it).[4]
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References edit
- ^ Bruno, Nicola; Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis (April 2012). "Italy: Start-Ups as a Break with the Past?". Survival is Success: Journalistic Online Start-Ups in Western Europe (PDF). Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. pp. 69, 72. ISBN 978-1-907384-08-0. Retrieved 29 June 2023 – via Repubblica.it.
In Italy, journalistic online start-ups have till recently been few and far between. Since 1994, when the first major national daily newspapers launched their websites, online news has been dominated by legacy media, especially the two most widely read newspapers, La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera, and by web portals like Libero and Virgillo that bundle news feeds with a wide range of other services. Start-ups have generally been poorly funded, unimaginative, and short-lived.
- ^ Bruno, Nicola; Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis (April 2012). "Italy: Start-Ups as a Break with the Past?". Survival is Success: Journalistic Online Start-Ups in Western Europe (PDF). Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. p. 72. ISBN 978-1-907384-08-0. Retrieved 29 June 2023 – via Repubblica.it.
In Italy as elsewhere, large international sites like Google and Facebook attract the most online traffic, complemented by local web portals like Libero and Virgillo. National newspapers, especially La Repubblica.it and Corriere della Sera.it, dominate online news.
- ^ "Nielsen//NetRatings comunica i dati Internet relativi al mese di maggio 2007: utenza e consumi in crescita rispetto ad aprile" (PDF). Nielsen-Netratings.com (in Italian). Nielsen//NetRatings. 29 June 2007. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ^ Bruno, Nicola; Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis (April 2012). "Italy: Start-Ups as a Break with the Past?". Survival is Success: Journalistic Online Start-Ups in Western Europe (PDF). Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-907384-08-0. Retrieved 29 June 2023 – via Repubblica.it.
External links edit
- Official website (in Italian)
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