{"id":91041,"date":"2016-05-03T16:16:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T14:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=91041"},"modified":"2016-05-03T16:17:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T14:17:57","slug":"massive-growth-for-mygaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/91041-massive-growth-for-mygaming","title":{"rendered":"Massive growth for MyGaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/87810-mygaming-under-new-management.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MyGaming received a new editorial team<\/strong><\/a>, with Jan Vermeulen serving as editor, and new team members Jamie McKane and Ryan Brothwell joining him as journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Their impact was immediately felt, and through great content MyGaming increased its readership by <strong>87%<\/strong> <strong>last month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the latest Effective Measure statistics, MyGaming attracted <strong>74,000 <\/strong>unique South African browsers in April.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like a game of Super Mario Bros., we have just hit a Super Mushroom<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and are well on the\u00a0way to our first Fire Flower,&#8221; Vermeulen said. &#8220;From there, who knows what power ups we&#8217;ll find!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brothwell translated: &#8220;Vermeulen is confident that this growth is set to continue,&#8221; he\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Exactly!&#8221; said Vermeulen. &#8220;We&#8217;re already practicing to set a new high score.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This time, McKane translated: &#8220;The editorial team is already working towards reaching a monthly readership of 100,000 in the near future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew I hired you lot for a reason,&#8221; Vermeulen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new editorial team took over MyGaming in April, and their impact was immediately felt by nearly doubling its readership within a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":87818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5617,17690,12637,1407,17692],"class_list":["post-91041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-effective-measure","tag-jamie-mckane","tag-jan-vermeulen","tag-mygaming","tag-ryan-brothwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91157,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91041\/revisions\/91157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}