Malaysian bloggers - Demographic

This post acts as a compiler of facts about the demographic of Asian online netizens:

Bloggers Age :

56% are below 25 years

35% are aged betwen 25 and 35

9% are above 35

Bloggers Gender :

64% Female

36% Male

Top Blogging topics

Technology

Travel

Music

The above is extracted from a report in the Star, titiled most bloggers are women, about Findings published in Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report

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Malaysian Blog Advertising Agencies

Advertlets , Nuffnang

Malaysian bloggers now have another avenue to earn some pocket money for being in cyberspace.

2 new blog advertising community - Nuffnang and Advertlets, have actively started to recruit Malaysian bloggers to join their respective advertising community. However, I sense some sort of rivalry going on between them or is it a marketing thing? Read A wave of allegations have hit Nuffnang lately .

Advertisers are always on the lookout to reach a wider market for their products or services, and placing advertisements on websites is now gaining advertiser's attention. Blog readers and website visitors are prime target for advertisers as they spend a lot of time online sourcing for information and news.

So far, Google Adsense programme is the de-facto biggest advertising agency. How far will the 2 Malaysian companies go? Time will tell, or rather, blogger's acceptance and experience will tell.

Funny thing is, I must be amongst the last of the Malaysian bloggers (who wants to monetise their site, that is) to have heard of either of these 2 blog-advertising community. I am indeed the proverbial 'katak di bawah tempurung' or 'the ultimate ignoramus'. Both the communities were launched around March 2007 (coincidence? like minds thing alike? good feng shui? or insider snoop?)

An article in the Star dated May 29, 2007, titled Blogging and the Big Bugs caught my interest, and led me to signing up for both!

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