Haven’t you always wanted to gawk at over-blown income figures as earned by your immediate peers and then implode in an orgy of self-loathing and booze? No!?! Ah, me either!
Well, someone at 24/7 Wall Street hates themselves enough to spend their time compiling a list of the 25 most valuable blogs for 2009, as calculated by multiplying the site traffic by estimated CPMs (explanation @ wiki).
This year, 24/7 listed the hot bitches at Gawker Media as very top of the pile. This list bares in mind that 24/7 apparently underestimates Gawker’s traffic and overestimates its CPMs. But, fuck it. I hate myself so much after reading this list of people who make more than me that I can’t even spell CPM… oh, wait a minute…
The 25 Most Valuable Blogs Ranked By Income 2009
- Gawker Properties — $170 million
- Huffington Post — $90 million
- The Drudge Report — $48 million
- Perez Hilton — $32 million
- Sugar, Inc — $27 million
- TechCrunch — $25 million
- MacRumors — $21 million
- SeekingAlpha — $11 million
- GigaOm — $9.5 million
- Politico — $8.7 million
- SmashingMagazine — $7.7 million
- SearchEngineLand — $4.5 million
- Boing Boing — $3.6 million
- ReadWriteWeb — $3.4 million
- SB Nation — $2.7 million
- Destructoid — $2.5 million
- Mashable — $2.5 million
- Alley Insider sites — $2.25 million
- /film — $2.1 million
- The Superficial Network — $2 million
- Neatorama — $1.5 million
- Daily Kos — $2 million
- Talking Points Memo — $1.2 million
- VentureBeat — $1 million
- Wowowow.com — $1 million
The list of 2008’s most valuable blogs can be found here.
How can I get on this list without starting a celebrity porn site?
It’s great to see Neatorama on here. I remember when they were the little guys. They’ve earned it.
Money’s great and all, but what Kos and HuffPo achieved politically is astounding. That “influence” thing is still a mystery to me, because when writing on the web, one would think time works in one’s favor, but hahahaha – it’s just as easy to be forgotten as it is to make an impression.
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It is great to see the little guy flourish amongst ‘Gawker’ sized giants.
@ Ashok – Thanks so much for commenting on this as well. Some sites are having an amazing influence. It really leaves me dumbstruck how big an impact their posts can have.