Blogs are a new form of media, but they are "media." The number of people creating blogs in the United States will reach over 35 million by 2012, roughly 16 percent of the Internet population, according to eMarketer. But as is the case for most forms of user-generated content, most people are content to watch, listen or read, rather than creating content themselves.
By 2012, more than 145 million people, 67 percent of the U.S. Internet population, will be reading blogs at least once a month. That is up from a readership of 94 million in 2007, or 50 percent of Internet users.
Paul Verna, eMarketer senior analyst, says "U.S. blog advertising will reach $746 million in 2012, up from $283 million in 2007."
Like podcasts, blogs tend to appeal to specific audiences. Accordingly, much of the demographic targeting that marketers work so hard to achieve in the mainstream media is already done for them.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Blog Readership 67% of Internet Users by 2012
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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