Is there a future
for VilNews?

By Aage Myhre, VilNews Editor-in-Chief
aage.myhre@VilNews.com

It seems, unfortunately, that we may have to stop publishing VilNews later this summer due to lack of economic support and advertising from Lithuanian State, businesses and organizations, this despite the tremendous success we have had when it comes to worldwide readership and general interest.

Ideas and suggestions from you, dear readers who wouldn’t like to see this happen, would be very much appreciated.

When we went online with VilNews 16 months ago, the internet experts predicted that a ‘niche product’ like ours would probably attract no more than 10-15,000 readers per year. Today this is the number of readers we have per week (!), and we have till now welcomed close to 400,000 visitors from 181 countries; a tremendous success both with regards to readership and the great response we have had from Lithuanians and others from literally every corner of the globe. As far as I know, we are now the largest online publication from and about Lithuania in the world…

I have been told that we have more readers than all Lithuanian tourist brochures and presentations altogether.

I have been told that we have been doing more to connect global Lithuanians than all governmental institutions together…

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