Your Online Audience Visualized – Putting Things Into Perspective

May 12, 2008 - Written by Gyutae Park  

One of the beauties of the Internet is that it allows potentially limitless distribution, free of charge. All you really need is an online accessible computer and you can easily and instantly connect with billions of people around the world.

So let’s shift our perspective a little bit by drawing parallels between the online and offline worlds. Just how big is your online audience?

Below are some of the audiences (by Feedburner RSS subscribers) of the top Internet marketing blogs – compared with real world crowds. The Internet seems a heck of a lot bigger than you thought right?

The country of Cyprus: population 855,000

Techcrunch – 865,000 subscribers

Indianapolis Speedway – 257,000 capacity

Read Write Web – 209,000 subscribers

Colosseum – 50,000 capacity

Problogger – 47,000 subscribers

Yankee Stadium – 57,545 capacity

Zen Habits – 54,000 subscribers

Fenway Park – 38,808 capacity

Copyblogger – 36,000 subscribers
Matt Cutts – 32,000 subscribers

United Center – 21,711 capacity

SEOmoz – 24,000 subscribers
John Chow – 25,000 subscribers
Search Engine Land – 25,000 subscribers

Madison Square Garden – 19,763 capacity

Shoemoney – 16,000 subscribers

Staples Center – 18,997 capacity

Dosh Dosh – 15,000 subscribers

Titanic – 3,547 capacity

UberAffiliate – 3,500 subscribers
Courtney Tuttle – 3,100 subscribers

Carnegie Hall – 2,804 capacity

Andy Beard – 2,800 subscribers
Zac Johnson – 2,700 subscribers
Small Business SEM – 2,500 subscribers
Blogstorm – 2,300 subscribers

It’s not until you visualize the masses in a real world setting that you realize the huge numbers of people represented on the Internet. How big is your online audience?

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24 Responses to “Your Online Audience Visualized – Putting Things Into Perspective”

wisdom on May 13th, 2008

Hah good post. Some people prefer forums and some prefer social networking sites and others prefer major news outlets. Blogging is slowly growing and starting to make an impact.

Gyutae Park on May 13th, 2008

I think blogging is actually making a huge impact in the world around us now. Small one man blogs have larger readerships than many major news outlets themselves. People love to identify with others and blogs offer personalities that the more official sites lack.

 
 
ImageGag on May 13th, 2008

My online audience couldn’t fill a dugout, but this is a great post Gyutae. I wonder how many of those writers take a moment to visualize those numbers before they hit ‘publish’.

Gyutae Park on May 13th, 2008

Yeah it really is amazing once you visualize the sheer size of your audience. A readership the size of the entire country of Cyprus at your fingertips? It’s crazy how much influence some of these sites really have.

 
 
Jason on May 13th, 2008

Awesome post Gyutae! Staples Center….what is that?

Gyutae Park on May 13th, 2008

Staples Center is the arena in Los Angeles where the Lakers play. C’mon now, I thought you ran a men’s interest site. :P

Jason on May 16th, 2008

Lol, shhh!

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FabioG3 on May 13th, 2008 Subscribed to comments via email

4 coaches and a minivan…. :-(

Great post!

Gyutae Park on May 13th, 2008

That’s a pretty sizable audience too. Don’t be discouraged by some of these crazy numbers.

 
 
Eric Nagel on May 13th, 2008

School Bus – 43 capacity (plus driver, 44)

NetNagel.com – 42 subscribers

:D

Gyutae Park on May 13th, 2008

lol, great analogy. Time to take your bus to school.

 
 
Rajaie on May 13th, 2008

Never really thought of it that way.

Gyutae Park on May 13th, 2008

Yep, neither have I. But it does open your eyes to how big the Internet really is.

 
 
Jonathan Volk on May 13th, 2008 Subscribed to comments via email

That was a really awesome post. Creative for sure! :)

Gyutae Park on May 14th, 2008

Thanks Jonathan. You have a pretty sizable readership on your affiliate marketing blog. I’m still trying to break the 1,000 subscriber mark.

 
 
Bryan on May 13th, 2008 Subscribed to comments via email

Great post! To compare my audience isn’t big enough to fill up seats at the bar of Applebee’s, but I’m working on it.

Gyutae Park on May 14th, 2008

Yeah, it’s a long and hard process but you’ll get there soon enough. Mm, speaking of which, I love Applebee’s. :)

 
 
Zedomax on May 13th, 2008

Lol… great analogy Gyutae,

now I feel like being in a Staples center. :)

Gyutae Park on May 14th, 2008

Aren’t you from San Fran, Max? I’ve never been to the Staples Center but I heard it was crazy when all the Koreans went there to watch the World Cup a couple years back.

 
 
Jay on May 14th, 2008

Stupid blogging lol… But let’s see, 300+, where does that fit? A large classroom? lol… hey, that’s better than nothing!

Jay

Gyutae Park on May 14th, 2008

Hey, 300 isn’t something to take lightly. You have the same audience as some of the top professors at prestigious universities. Ah, the beauty (or curse if it’s abused) of the Internet.

sven on May 16th, 2008 Subscribed to comments via email

And a number some people make movies about *hint hint*

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Gyutae Park on May 17th, 2008

Sparta!

 
 
 
 
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