State of the Blogosphere: Stunning Stats to Know & Tell

If the previous posts filled with stats about internet use and blogging caught your interest, you’ll also find this fascinating  info from the blog of Dave Sifry (Technorati and more):

State of the Blogosphere 2008 Wrap-up: Brands and the Blogosphere

To wrap up a long data-filled week, we’ve rolled out part 5 of the State of the Blogosphere report, which is all about how traditional brands are perceived and how bloggers interact with brands in the blogopshere. This data is taken from the large survey done on Technorati bloggers earlier this year, as described in our methodology. Here’s a few of the interesting things we learned:

• More than four in five bloggers post product or brand reviews, and blog about brands they love or hate.
• One-third of bloggers surveyed have been approached to be brand advocates.
• Of those, more than six in ten were offered payments of some kind.
• One in five bloggers don’t think that newspapers will survive the next ten years.
• Half of bloggers surveyed believe that blogs will be a primary source for news and entertainment in the next five years.
• 37% of bloggers surveyed have been quoted in traditional media based on a blog post.
• Bloggers are most open to receiving marketing messages from other blogs. Even non-blog web content is more influential among this group than traditional media sources for brand information.
• Bloggers spend twice as much time online as U.S. adults 18-49, and spend only one-third as much time watching television.

Read the whole section, including charts and graphs. Read the entire 5-part report.

There’s a lot of data here but if you have any seriousness about blogging, it’s worth checking out.

Doug Sifry is founder and CEO of Technorati, the cofounder and CTO of Sputnik and Linuxcare, founding board member of Linux International, and board member of AOTC. He says he’s been around the block a few times, and  “Some might call me a serial entrepreneur. A more personal but less-updated site has more information about me – pictures, speeches, software, etc. You can contact me at david-blog@sifry.com.”