Can you believe all these people are in Las Vegas at the huge Convention Center just because a few of us started blogging 3 years ago? Who would have dreamed that it would blossom into all this? Blog World Expo is truly amazing!
Denise is moderating a panel tomorrow on blog design, presenting a group of blog experts and talking about our CODA business blog system for getting results from a blog.
Here are some recent stats about blogs and people online:
• 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