Blogging in France is huge
An article in this week’s Business Week: “Let Them Eat Cake — And Blog About It” (here - requires subscription); reports that 4.9% of the population - that is more than 3M people - have their own blogs in France. Contrast that to the 0.2% of Germans who blog and you get some sense of the culture differences.
Another great stat from the article comes from Skyrock, a radio station. They started providing free hosting for blogs - which attracted 2.3M blogs and $6M in ad revenue. Talk about a goldmine!
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July 4th, 2005 at 12:50 am
From Cafes to Blogs — French Blogging is Huge — Does This Surprise Anyone?
I was told several months ago that I was a natural for blogging because — I am a New Yorker, I am a VC, and I am French — therefore I have three orders of magnitude more opinions than most — and absolutely no inhibitions about sh…