Hello again Eliahu,
The Blog Herald tracks blogs by country and by blog technology provider.
According to their latest Blog Count from February 2006:
Germany: 300,000
France: Approximately 4.5 million blogs
United Kingdom: Approximately 4 million blogs
Blog Herald
http://www.blogherald.com/2006/02/02/the-blog-herald-blog-count-february-2006-200-million-blogs-in-existence/
The Blog Herald is the industry leading blog news site. It has grown a
reputation in the 3 years it has been serving the blog community as
the place to go for blog-related news.
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=344298
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Previous numbers
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According to an interview with French blogging expert Loic Le Meur in
June 2005, there were about 3 million blogs in France and between
100,00 and 150,000 blogs in Germany
Excerpt:
?We?re trying to get an understanding of what's happening with
business blogs in non-English speaking countries. Can you give me an
overview?
The broad picture is that France, the UK, Spain and Italy are waking
up very fast. Germany remains very dead. This is surprising because
with 80 million people, it?s Europe?s largest country and usually
pretty advanced in technology. France, I?m amazed to say, leads the EU
in blogging. It?s crazy here. There are three million blogs in
France.?
?Total blogs in Germany?consumer, business, public & private is about 100,000?
Interview: Loic Le Meur
http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2005/06/interview_loic_.html
According to Technorati, there were an estimated 2.5 million blogs in
the UK. (Nov 2005)
Excerpt:
?Technorati, the website widely recognised as the authority on
weblogs, is currently tracking 19.6 million sites and, in their
October blog count, the Blog Herald say they have recorded over 100
million currently in existence, including 2.5 million in the UK.?
http://www.theinsight.co.uk/feature5_nov05.htm
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Europe
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According to Hugo E. Martin on Media, Marketing & Internet
( http://www.emartin.net/ ), there are a total of 12.378.000 blogs in Europe.
http://hemartin.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_hemartin_archive.html#113208335784504371
Here is the direct link to the Excel Spreadsheet which provides the
total number of blogs in Europe and the number of blogs for each
individual country.
Updated January 2006
Download here:
http://resources.emartin.net/blogs/docs/Blogs_Europe_Neu.xls
I wrote to Mr. Hugi Martin and he kindly responded that as far as he
knows there is no research for EU Level for blog readers.
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Blog Readers in the United States
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?About 20 percent of Americans say they read Web logs, at least
occasionally, but the percentage has remained stagnant for about a
year, a Gallup poll shows.
The Gallup annual Lifestyle survey indicates 9 percent of Internet
users read blogs frequently while 11 percent said they are occasional
readers. However, 66 percent said they never read blogs and 13 percent
said they only rarely read them.?
The survey was conducted on Dec. 5-8 2005.
?Gallup gave the survey a 95 percent confidence rating and said the
error rate was 3 percentage points.?
Feb 10, 2006
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1096631.php/20_p.c._of_Internet_users_read_blogs
ComScore Media Metrix put together a market research report
(co-sponsored with Gawker) on "Behaviors of the Blogosphere", that
looks at how blog readers are interacting with blogs and delves into
who these readers are.
The report was released on August 8, 2005.
Key Findings:
?Nearly 50 million Americans, or about 30 percent of the total U.S.
Internet population, visited blogs in Q1 2005 and that three of the
top six blog hosts -TypePad.com, Livejournal.com and Blogs.com are Six
Apart properties.?
Six Apart http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:esYKeRVwDQMJ:www.sixapart.com/about/news/+percent+of+users+read+blogs+site:www.sixapart.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3
?Nearly 50 million Internet users read blog sites during the first
quarter of 2005; these readers total about 30 percent of all Internet
users or about one in six people who live in the United States.
These figures about blogs were discovered in a recent study of the
online behaviors of more than 2 million worldwide participants
conducted by comScore, Six Apart, and Gawker Media.?
About.com
http://humanresources.about.com/od/businessblogs/a/tips_blog.htm
?About 6% of U.S. adults have created blogs and 16% of them read blogs.?
Pew Internet: 5/2/2005
http://www.pewinternet.org/press_release.asp?r=104
From Clickz.com:
"A quarter of all Internet users say they read blogs, and 9 percent
say they've created one, according to an update to the "State of
Blogging" report published by Pew Internet & American Life Project in
January.
The original study stated blog readership had risen 58 percent through
the end of last year, though 62 percent of online Americans couldn't
define "blog" at the time of the survey."
Clickz.com: May 2005
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/traffic_patterns/article.php/3502201
?Ten percent of consumers read blogs once a week or more, said
Forrester Research at the opening of its annual Consumer Forum. That's
double the 5 percent who browsed blogs in 2004.?
JHKL Blog: September 2005
http://jklgroup.blogs.com/agenda/2005/09/1in10_consumers.html
Search criteria:
"Million blogs in the UK
Million blogs in France
?Number of blogs in Germany
Blogs in EU
European blogs
Blog readers OR readership
I hope the information provided is helpful!
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |