Blogging Statistics

I was on the BlogWorld Expo site this morning and found a list of blogging statistics you may be interested in (links to the relevant support documentation is on the BWE site):

    * Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
    * More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
    * Over 57 million Americans 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 .

Comments

[Mary]

Only 23? Wow. Nice to know I helped increase the average.

[Rainbow Zebra]

Great list of figures there.

One of the stand out ones is 'over 120 thousand blogs are created every day'. That is a huge amount, and just shows that blogging has really grown and will begin to grow over the coming years.