Blogging : Interesting Statistics

Posted on November 6th, 2007 by Vishal Print This Post

Here is some interesting data on the homepage of the BlogWorld and New Media Expo that is taking place Las Vegas on November 8th and 9th 2007.

Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
Over 57 million Americns read blogs.
1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog.
89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years.
9% of internet users say they have created blogs
6% of the entire US adult population has created a blog
Technorati is currently tracking over 70 million blogs
over 120 thousand blogs are created every day
There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day
22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs
120,000 new blogs are created every day
37% of blog readers began reading blogs in 2005 or 2006
51% of blog readers shop online
Blog readers average 23 hours online each week

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