People hoping to make a living from advertising-supported blogs probably won't be able to quit their day jobs any time soon – if ever. That was the reality check BlogAds founder and CEO Henry Copeland delivered at a Networked Journalism Summit hosted by the City University of New York this month. After first saying mere "dozens" of the 1,500 bloggers affiliated with BlogAds earn their keep solely from advertising, Copeland later told PaidContent.org the number's closer to 100. But even then, he's talking about less than 7 percent of a fairly sophisticated sample set of bloggers – which includes those behind DailyKos.com and PerezHilton.com – generating significant ad revenues. And the ratio of high-revenue blogs is even lower in the overall blogosphere/Frank Sennett, Blogspotter.
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
ever. That was the reality check BlogAds founder and CEO Henry Copeland delivered at a Networked Journalism Summit hosted by the City University of New York this month. After first saying mere "dozens" of the 1,500 bloggers affiliated with BlogAds earn their keep solely from advertising, Copeland later told PaidContent.org the number's closer to 100. But even then, he's talking about less than 7 percent of a fairly sophisticated sample set of bloggers – which includes those behind DailyKos.com and PerezHilton.com – generating significant ad revenues. And the ratio of high-revenue blogs is even lower in the overall blogosphere/Frank Sennett, Blogspotter.
