Which newspaper are you?
Interesting fact – 37% of Canadian newspaper readers read the editorials. If a political blog is like anything, it’s like the editorial section of a newspaper.
This blog gets an average of 564 hits per day – or 3,948 per week. Seeing as this is editorial only, that would be the equivalent of a newspaper with a readership of 10,670.
In other words, this blog gets more editorial readers, more politically engaged readers than the Flin Flon Reminder, or the Whitehorse Star. Hah!
Ok, I admit, that’s not that impressive. But I run an HR firm, not a newspaper, so I think it’s respectable for a hobby.
But some blogs out there are impressive. For example, Kate at SDA is Canada’s 36th largest newspaper, beating out Montreal’s Le Devoir.
Darcey at DustmyBroom beats out Fort McMurray Today and comes within a hair of overtaking Conrad Black’s first newspaper, the Sherbrooke Record.
It’s totally pointless time wasting, but what the hell – have a passably successful blog? Which newspaper’s ass do you kick?
Newspaper circulation numbers are here. Compare with weekly totals – it’s easier.
The easy math conversion = take your total readership, divide that by 37 and multiply that by 100 to get newspaper equivalent.
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July 31, 2008 at 3:16 am
“No I will not get into a debate with you.”
No, you won’t. It takes two, and I don’t have the time to waste.
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July 31, 2008 at 11:46 am
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