OK in a ‘top list’ mode at moment and browsing the definitive AdAge media and marketing top 1000 I noticed even more than usual, the dominance of the most communicative country on the planet, the US. In fact of the top 500, the US counts for 327 – so I crunched the numbers and using the wonders of TextWrangler, filtered out leaders from the rest of the world, the other 173 (who write English) . It produced some interesting top tables and results. Who are the other leading countries, opinionated voices, insightful perspectives, top communicators in media and marketing blogs? Which countries are missing? Who are the leading voices in each country? Also would be interesting to look at gender breakdown, individual versus agency or even age of ‘the voice’ for each blog. But will leave that for others – for now, less get ‘national’!
I added a twitter url to the top 250 – where there was an obvious link on the landing page or the URL in the list. Apologies otherwise, hunting around for twitter feed links takes time and really shouldn’t be needed for marketing blogs top pages!
I separated a country out if it had 3 or more entries in the top 500 and they are listed by most entries (after the US of course!). Interestingly England and Great Britain are separated in the source list hence two tables – last time I was there England was part of Great Britain? 🙂 Finally AdAge (created by Todd Andrlik and managed by Charlie Moran) started looking at the top 150 blogs but now has grown to reflect the massive interest in new forms of human communication (that is marketing/media) but it is a living organism and has subtle changes on a daily basis so the big disclaimer with this list is that it this is a snapshot from yesterday afternoon, 20 September 2009.
The first column is the national position and the third column is the overall global AdAge position. The order is based on number of bloggers in the top 500 then sorted by average position (lower is better). So in order of marketing media, blogging-in-English prowess we have 1st, USA followed by…
2nd ENGLAND – av 281
3rd CANADA av 261
1 | John Chow dot Com | 9 | twitter.com/JohnChow |
2 | Twist Image | 23 | |
3 | Get Elastic | 40 | twitter.com/getelastic |
4 | adgoodness | 58 | www.twitter.com/fsamuel |
5 | Web Analytics World | 66 | |
6 | Dave Fleet | 95 | |
7 | Dosh Dosh | 102 | |
8 | Danny Brown | 129 | twitter.com/DannyBrown |
9 | Search Engine People Blog | 180 | |
10 | ideasonideas | 181 | www.twitter.com/karj |
11 | The Michel Fortin Blog | 184 | |
12 | Buzz Networker | 195 | twitter.com/bizzia |
13 | Pro PR | 201 | twitter.com/thornley |
14 | One Degree | 220 | twitter.com/onedegree |
15 | Common Sense PR | 253 | |
16 | InspiredMoneyMaker.com | 266 | |
17 | Profectio | 282 | |
18 | PR Works | 287 | |
19 | Buzz Canuck | 302 | |
20 | WebTrafficROI | 321 | |
21 | BPWrap | 352 | |
22 | Canadian Marketing Blog | 358 | |
23 | The Praized Blog | 364 | |
24 | Behind the Buzz | 389 | |
25 | Great-Ads | 395 | |
26 | shape+colour | 413 | |
27 | My Name is Kate | 415 | |
28 | David Leonhardt’s SEO Marketing Express | 420 | |
29 | CrapHammer | 437 | |
30 | Blogging Me Blogging You | 463 | |
31 | chroma | 473 | |
32 | Saul Colt | 488 |
4th AUSTRALIA av 280
1 | The Inspiration Room Daily | 64 | www.twitter.com/inspirationroom |
2 | ProBlogger | 75 | www.twitter.com/problogger |
3 | Bannerblog | 110 | www.twitter.com/bannerblog |
4 | Campaign Brief | 126 | |
5 | Social Network Marketing | 156 | www.twitter.com/SilkCharm |
6 | Adspace Pioneers | 159 | twitter.com/juliancole |
7 | Digital Buzz | 167 | twitter.com/adenhepburn |
8 | acidlabs | 221 | twitter.com/trib |
9 | PersonalizeMedia | 224 | www.twitter.com/GaryPHayes |
10 | Servant of Chaos | 251 | twitter.com/gavinheaton |
11 | AmnesiaBlog | 278 | |
12 | the threebillion project | 283 | |
13 | Young PR | 314 | |
14 | Get Shouty | 325 | |
15 | Marketing Easy | 367 | twitter.com/lucio_ribeiro |
16 | Better Communication Results | 390 | twitter.com/leehopkins |
17 | Pigs Don’t Fly | 398 | |
18 | Media Hunter | 401 | |
19 | MuMbrella | 405 | |
20 | CopyWrite | 416 | |
21 | limeshot design | 430 | |
22 | Online Marketing Banter | 434 | |
23 | Retailsmart | 459 |
5th GREAT BRITAIN av 265
1 | Compete Blog | 46 | |
2 | Econsultancy’s Internet Marketing Blog | 67 | twitter.com/econsultancy |
3 | FreshNetworks Blog | 94 | twitter.com/freshnetworks |
4 | How To Make My Blog | 122 | twitter.com/howtomakemyblog |
5 | We Are Social | 157 | twitter.com/wearesocial |
6 | UK Affiliate Marketing Blog | 199 | |
7 | FeverBee | 202 | |
8 | SEOptimise | 211 | |
9 | SEOgadget.co.uk | 230 | m.twitter.com/richardbaxter |
10 | Andrew R H Girdwood | 285 | |
11 | Event Manager Blog | 329 | |
12 | That Canadian Girl | 361 | |
13 | Blendingthemix | 380 | |
14 | Feeding the Puppy | 406 | |
15 | Connect – Digital Marketing from iCrossing | 446 | |
16 | further and faster | 487 | |
17 | No Man’s Blog | 497 |
6th IRELAND av 276
7th INDIA av 242
8th NETHERLANDS av 134
1 | ViralBlog | 55 | twitter.com/viralblog |
2 | Yoast – Tweaking Websites | 87 | |
3 | Osocio | 138 | |
4 | Wiep.net | 256 |
9th SINGAPORE av 234
1 | WhoIsAndrewWee.com | 134 | |
2 | blankanvas | 193 | twitter.com/patlaw/ |
3 | Musings Of An Opinionated Sod | 232 | |
4 | Cooler Insights | 378 |
10th PORTUGAL av 372
1 | Invisible Red | 223 | |
2 | The Hidden Persuader | 356 | |
3 | iBlogZone | 444 | |
4 | A Source of Inspiration | 478 |
11th ITALY av 50
1 | I believe in adv | 6 | |
2 | Adverblog | 15 | twitter.com/realadverblog |
3 | AdverBox | 128 |
12th SWEDEN av 215
1 | AdLand | 116 | twitter,.com/adland |
2 | Blog of Ronnestam | 225 | twitter.com/ronnestam |
3 | Media Culpa | 304 | twitter.com/kullin |
13th BELGIUM av 235
1 | Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog | 54 | twitter.com/futurelab_BE |
2 | Cross The Breeze | 303 | |
3 | BeRelevant: Email Marketing Best Practices | 347 |
14th SOUTH AFRICA av 301
1 | Cherryflava | 84 | www.twitter.com/cherryflava |
2 | Vinny Lingham | 340 | |
3 | Brand Architect | 480 |
REST OF THE WORLD (less than 3 entries)
Bahrain | Ads of the World | 8 | twitter.com/adsoftheworld |
Scotland | David Airey | 25 | www.twitter.com/davidairey |
Poland | Niche Marketing | 33 | |
Andorra | Direct Marketing Observations | 89 | twitter.com/marc_meyer |
Austria | No man is an iland | 125 | |
France | Cross-Cultural eMarketer | 127 | twitter.com/cindyking |
Andorra | Because The Medium is the Message | 162 | |
Germany | Everything PR | 172 | |
Philippines | TheWeblogZone | 210 | |
European Union | Mastercom Advertising & Communication Blog | 215 | |
Norway | 180/360/720 | 217 | |
Finland | AndreaVascellari.com | 244 | retwt.me/3Olr |
China | Digital Marketing Inner Circle | 310 | |
Scotland | Hobo UK SEO Company Blog | 317 | |
Yemen | Blueverse | 341 | |
New Zealand | Psychotactics | 354 | |
European Union | renaissance chambara | 379 | twitter.com/@r_c |
New Zealand | Affilorama Affiliate Marketing Portal | 441 | |
Romania | MoneyBlog | 468 | |
Philippines | Social Media Philippines | 470 | twitter.com/robangeles |
Japan | iA Notebook | 477 | |
Germany | eWritings | 483 |
This is great list, lot of work around hein!
In case you want to update
Australia – www.marketingeasy.net | twitter is @lucio_ribeiro
.-= lucio ribeiro´s last blog ..Social Media Resistance – Breaking the Shell =-.
Hi Gary. I visit the AdAge Power 150 from time to time. It’s a nice way to keep-up with what some popular websites are blogging about (rather than clog my RSS reader, which can easily take up too much time every day). Cheers for mentioning my little blog (once Scottish, now Irish).
.-= David Airey´s last blog ..The “I Love New York” logo =-.
This is a very impressive list. AdAge is a brilliant resource and one of the first places I check for the latest goings-on in the blogosphere.
Thanks for taking the time to put this together.
Karl
HI Gary. Thanks for taking the time to prepare this extensive and useful list. Not until about last week that found I have made it to the Power 150. Needless to say that I was very excited about it as I have seen my work getting rewarded. This is always a very good feeling and motivates us to move on. Thanks for the mention of my blog too.
.-= DiTesco´s last blog ..DiTesco’s Weekly Echo #2 =-.
Cool, my last two posts have gotten 151 retweets! Aug Reality Biz Mods twurl.nl/jbyjb5 Top Mkt blogs by Nation twurl.nl/iptvur
I like to think of my blog as “duel nationality” as whilst I reside in Poland most of the time, my business is really UK.
Adage doesn’t have that option.
Another thing to point out are the bugs in the Adage system. They frequently have problems with feed counts for instance, and don’t seem to cache values form one day to the next in case there is a problem.
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Wow… thanks for the great list Gary!
Greetings from Finland!
Andrea
.-= Andrea Vascellari´s last blog ..[Report] for September 17th 2009 – AndreaVascellari.com =-.
How much time did you have to put in to collate this excellent resource? Like the other commenters here, I’ve found some great info by going through the AdAge Power 150 list, yet it can be a bit of a time-suck. This breakdown is getting bookmarked – one of best resource lists I’ve seen, cheers!
.-= Danny Brown´s last blog ..Making Twitter Sticky =-.
Bit weird that England and Great Britain are separate entities on the list. Since England is part of Great Britain I wonder how they made the distinction between which is a popular English blog and which is a popular British blog? 😕
.-= Lisa Hartwell´s last blog ..Nurture Your Creativity with Some Inspiring Podcasts =-.
Hi, Thanks for mentioning me on your list. The twitter feed related to my blog renaissance chambara @r_c
Best regards,
Ged
Thanks all for the comments! For those who asked I have added your twitter link (even though it was only the top 250 originally!). I am so kind 🙂
Andy, Lisa – Yes odd that Euro, GB and England are separate…also that you may be a national of one country but blog with reference to one you live in exclusively? Part of the reason for doing this was to highlight that. Suspect that may change now?! *looks at todd and charlie*
Danny – thanks for compliment. It only took 30 mins or so to do the number crunching & formatting. Most time was finding a few twitter links and then getting tables working for wordpress – as it always is! The little things…
The rest, please send twitter links and I will add – I want to follow you too! gary@personalizemedia.com might be better than comments.
Nicely done, that list must have taken quite some time to sort, thanks. (Ps – you can find Swedes adland twittering at – what else – twitter,.com/adland and Mea Cupa twittering at twitter.com/kullin )
Wow! You really did some digging there! I guess we in the Philippines are waaaayyyyyy behind you guys. Excellent job!
Wow. Great resource!
I noted that you had put the wrong Twitter account besides my Blog. The right one for Blog of Ronnestam from Sweden is: twitter.com/ronnesam
thank’s again for posting this!
Johan
.-= Johan Ronnestam´s last blog ..TEDxStockholm and Tales of Passion =-.
Hi Johan – all fixed. Sorry about that! Thanks for the comment 🙂
.-= Gary Hayes´s last blog ..Top 175 (non US) Media and Marketing Blogs by Country =-.
And thank you for taking care of it at the speed of light!
Rock on!
.-= Johan Ronnestam´s last blog ..TEDxStockholm and Tales of Passion =-.
Thanks for putting this together and for the mention. In case you’re interested, the Twitter for Spinning Around is twitter.com/seventyseven
.-= James Gordon-MacIntosh´s last blog ..A BUNCH OF PHOTOGRAPHY-RELATED BITS =-.
Thanks Gary for all the hard work on this list. Twitter for The Inspiration Room is @inspirationroom.
.-= Duncan´s last blog ..The Australian Think Again =-.
Thanks Gary for creating such a huge list..Nice to see myself in that list 😉
.-= Typhoon´s last blog ..5 Tips to Save your Precious Time when Writing a Post =-.
Oh by the way, the twitter account of Social Media Philippines is twitter.com/robangeles. I made another column in my Seesmic for the AdAge people. Really like it.
.-= Rob Angeles´s last blog ..Businesses Are Hesitant About Social Media =-.
You put a lot of time into this!! I would be curious to see just how the percentage of non-us users grow over the next few months.
.-= Rocky´s last blog ..Country Music Artists: From Selling Songs to Selling Brands =-.
You forgot to add Sir Richard Branson!
www.twitter/richardbranson
Oh, it’s:
www.twitter.com/richardbranson
MichelleMarie
.-= michellemarie´s last blog ..michelleLII: Check out the Top 175 (non US) Media and Marketing Blogs by Country.. #PersonalizeMedia retwt.me/8e6x =-.
I’m so surprised that Indians are really bloggers, even beating the European countries.
Why would that be surprising? That the worlds largest democracy has some fine bloggers strikes me as quite logical. (Don’t forget India with their 1bn+ population must have more bright bulbs in any subject than say, Swedens 9 million hehe)
.-= Dabitch´s last blog ..Varun D Jani Fine Jewellery: Seeing Is Believing (Print/Poster, India) =-.
G’day Gary,
Only came across this today via a circuitous route – my blog isn’t showing links in these days for some reason and I can’t be arsed finding out why…
I’m pleasantly surprised to be still in the Aussie league, considering how randomly I blog these days, but that aside, if you could add my twitter account that would be fab: twitter.com/leehopkins.
Cheers, chap; we must coffee when I next get to Sydney — I am in profound need of your sagacity regarding my stalled and bogged doctoral research.
Cheers,
Lee
Nice to see the amount of countries powering the adage 150
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Hey Gary,
Great post, thanks for taking the time to break it all down! I’ve had this favourited in twitter for almost a month, ready to read, and very glad that I finally got around to it! 🙂
Hope to catch up one of these days!
Aden.
@Aden Hepburn, Hi Aden, yes good that Aussie blogs are doing so well overall being such a small (20million) country 🙂 I am updating the Aussie top 20-30 list on AdAge every week now here on this blog so you might want to keep that bookmarked?
Love Digital Buzz too btw – in my main feed window, nice to see a media blog without all the ‘territorial’ nonsense! Cheers
Hello there!
Thanks for that, great list…but it seems that you forgot www.netfrontiermarketing.com ,which is more popular than most canadian blogs listed.. 🙄
thanks to update … 😉
Mandy
@Mandy, HI Mandy – this list is from the AdAge Power 150 list so if NetFrontier is not on there it won’t be here! If they are so big give them a nudge and tell them to submit 🙂 Cheers
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Gary,
Thanks for including the Digital Marketing Inner Circle (www.sinotechblog.com.cn) in your list (China).
Can you please add our communities twitter id: @marketingchina
Thanks for the mention.
Cheers
Matt
.-= Matt McDougall´s last blog ..Optimizing Your LinkedIn Profile =-.
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This is a comprehensive list and I hope people do more than just look at it as it is very important in terms of outside perspective. I hope people visit these blogs and read them to get a perspective from the outside…as it is often more truthful and unbiased.
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