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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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.
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.
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’.
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.
Awesome post Gyutae! Staples Center….what is that?
Staples Center is the arena in Los Angeles where the Lakers play. C’mon now, I thought you ran a men’s interest site.
Lol, shhh!
4 coaches and a minivan….
Great post!
That’s a pretty sizable audience too. Don’t be discouraged by some of these crazy numbers.
School Bus – 43 capacity (plus driver, 44)
NetNagel.com – 42 subscribers
lol, great analogy. Time to take your bus to school.
Never really thought of it that way.
Yep, neither have I. But it does open your eyes to how big the Internet really is.
That was a really awesome post. Creative for sure!
Thanks Jonathan. You have a pretty sizable readership on your affiliate marketing blog. I’m still trying to break the 1,000 subscriber mark.
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.
Yeah, it’s a long and hard process but you’ll get there soon enough. Mm, speaking of which, I love Applebee’s.
Lol… great analogy Gyutae,
now I feel like being in a Staples center.
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.
Stupid blogging lol… But let’s see, 300+, where does that fit? A large classroom? lol… hey, that’s better than nothing!
Jay
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.
And a number some people make movies about *hint hint*
Sparta!