The N.Y. Times has a story claiming that Breitbart's traffic is down 50% and its advertising base is down nearly 90%. The site's visitor traffic has fallen 53 percent since November, from 22.96 million unique individuals to 10.76 million last month, according to ComScore, which tracks Web trends. Other news sites have seen a falloff since the election, too – The Washington Post and the New York Times are off 24 and 26 percent during this period, respectively – but Breitbart's losses are at roughly twice the mainstream rate. At the same time, an advertiser blacklist of Breitbart organized by an anonymous online group called Sleeping Giants appears to be biting hard. Only 26 companies had ads on Breitbart last month, down from 242 in March, according to the marketing-news site Digiday. It said the remaining advertisers were primarily smaller direct-response companies, although Amazon.com remains one of its...(Read Full Post)