UK & US PR blogs number comparison
Posted Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 5:03pm in Blogging, Business |
From the Bloglines PR bloglist developed by Constantin Basturea (I believe). I’ve tallied the number of PR blogs from the UK and the US to compare (in numbers) how we differ.
PR practitioners blogging:
UK = 19 US = 64
Blog consultants:
UK = 3 US = 25
Corporate PR blogs:
UK = 4 US = 33
PR education blogs:
UK = 5 US = 6
Clearly a big difference in terms of numbers, showing how the majority of the UK hasn’t quite recognised blogging as a communication tool just yet. What is promising though are the UK PR education blogs, only one behind the US. I hope in the near future, that blogging & podcasting become part of a PR degree, and in my opinion, I can see it happening.
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5 Comments
Piaras Kelly
Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 7:30pm
You think that’s bad, let’s look at the irish figures:
PR consultants blogging: 2
Blog consultants: 0
Corporate PR blogs: 0
PR education blogs: 0
It probably won’t change until blogging takes off in the US and UK. What you do we follow
That said though, at least it is kind of on our exam. There’s an E-PR question on one of the papers every year now that Tom Murphy of PR Opinions effectively gives direction for.
PR Blogger
Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 9:38pm
Perhaps you could use this to your advantage Piaras? As a young PR pro, you could lead the way (with Tom of course) in terms of the use of RSS and blogging in the Irish PR circles?
P.S. I’m guessing you are young from your post on Blake’s blog saying you’ve been in the profession for six months.
Blake
Friday, July 1, 2005 at 12:17am
Piaras, Stephen poses a great point - lead the way!
Frances
Friday, July 15, 2005 at 12:55am
Yes, more USA PR professionals blog when looking at the numbers alone. However, if you were to look at the percentages, I think that you would find, over all, there is a higher UK blog ratio in the PR, marketing and advertisment industies.
prblogger.com » Blog Archive » UK/US PR blog year-on-year numbers
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 4:40pm
[...] Just over a year ago I made a post on the number comparison between UK and US PR related blogs to get a snapshot view to see which country, out of the two, is embracing blogs the quickest. (First let me apologise to none UK and US readers. I had been blogging for two months at the time and did clearly not see the bigger picture.) Needless to say the US was by far the most dominant between the two countries, although the difference between the two with regard to PR educational blogs were nearly on par. [...]