Lots of new folk to welcome to the UK list this month, so to those who have recently entered the AgeAge chart a very big welcome!
Notable new entrants are Rob at The Ad Pit and the H&K crew at Collective Conversation. Also coming up fast is friendly social media planner, Brendan Cooper. We ought to add a big "hello" to Jed over at renaissance chambara.
Oh ... and it turns out that we cocked up and managed to leave This Is HERD off previous lists: a situation rectified this time around.
For those who may be interested, this chart is based on the AdAge Power 150, the top UK bloggers on all things advertising and marketing on 1 August 2008.
If you feel that you should be included, you can get in touch with AdAge here, who will sort you out. As soon as you're in, I'll pick you up in this filleting of the AA chart.
| UK | Global | Blog |
| 1 (-) | 41 (-4) | russell davies |
| 2 (+2) | 51 (11) | Blogstorm |
| 3 (-1) | 53 (-5) | David Airey |
| 4 (-1) | 58 (-2) | NevilleHobson.com |
| 5 (-) | 76 (+1) | adliterate |
| 6 (-) | 85 (+11) | Only Dead Fish |
| 7 (-) | 97 (+5) | Crackunit |
| 8 (-) | 109 (-6) | PR Blogger |
| 9 (-) | 128 (-9) | The Engaging Brand |
| 10 (-) | 144 (+13) | Welcome to Optimism |
| 11 (-) | 176 (+4) | HERD |
| 12 (+1) | 184 (+10) | Make Marketing History |
| 13 (-1) | 214 (-23) | A PR Guy's Musings |
| 14 (+4) | 216 (+11) | Spinning Around |
| 15 (+1) | 220 (-) | Blog Till You Drop |
| 16 (+1) | 221 (+1) | Modern Marketing |
| 17 (-3) | 226 (-27) | PPC Blog |
| 18 (+1) | 232 (+10) | Fraser's Affiliate Marketing Blog |
| 19 (-4) | 243 (-35) | Crenk |
| 20 (+2) | 261 (+44) | Faster Future |
| 21 (+2) | 267 (+51) | SEOCO Blog |
| 22 (-2) | 280 (-2) | greenormal |
| 23 (-2) | 286 (+9) | Hobo SEO UK |
| 24 (+4) | 312 (+38) | Drew B's take on tech PR |
| 25 (NEW) | 315 (NEW) | The Ad Pit |
| 26 (-1) | 316 (+8) | Wadds' tech pr blog |
| 27 (NEW) | 318 (NEW) | Collective Conversation |
| 28 (-2) | 322 (+7) | Beyond PR |
| 29 (-5) | 323 (-2) | Life Moves Pretty Fast |
| 30 (+3) | 325 (+98) | Nick Burcher |
| 31 (-) | 338 (+44) | Simonsays |
| 32 (NEW) | 339 (NEW) | Brendan Cooper |
| 33 (+5) | 341 (+115) | Living in a digital world |
| 34 (-5) | 346 (+13) | Interactive Marketing Trends |
| 35 (-5) | 366 (+9) | 50-Plus Marketing |
| 36 (-9) | 368 (-19) | livingbrands |
| 37 (-3) | 381 (+45) | Brand Strategy Magazine Blog |
| 38 (+1) | 386 (+88) | The Way of the Web |
| 39 (-7) | 389 (+10) | mediations |
| 40 (NEW) | 399 (NEW) | Direct response marketing observations |
| 41 (NEW) | 403 (NEW) | General Marketing Blog |
| 42 (+4) | 404 (+135) | London Calling |
| 43 (-6) | 425 (+29) | Raw Stylus |
| 44 (NEW) | 432 (NEW) | Get International Clients |
| 45 (NEW) | 439 (NEW) | This Is HERD |
| 46 (-11) | 451 (-12) | rubbishcorp® |
| 47 (-11) | 453 (-) | Simon Wakeman |
| 48 (NEW) | 466 (NEW) | Blendingthemix |
| 49 (NEW) | 478 (NEW) | renaissance chambara |
| 50 (-9) | 495 (-) | Pudding Relations |
| 51 (NEW) | 502 (NEW) | Shiny Red |
| 52 (-8) | 508 (+13) | A Mountain Dweller in the Thames Valley |
| 53 (NEW) | 511 (NEW) | Event Manager Blog |
| 54 (NEW) | 531 (NEW) | Nicola Davies |
| 55 (-10) | 532 (-6) | Vincent Thome's Blog |
| 56 (-9) | 535 (+22) | Unleashed on Marketing |
| 57 (-17) | 548 (-71) | (Almost) Always Thinking |
| 58 (NEW) | 560 (NEW) | FreshNetworks Blog |
| 59 (-10) | 564 (+4) | All Things PR |
| 60 (-12) | 579 (-16) | Brandgym Blog |
| 61 (-18) | 581 (-78) | [Bluurb] stuff and things |
| 62 (-20) | 585 (-83) | The New Marketing |
| 63 (NEW) | 598 (NEW) | Measurement Matters |
| 64 (-12) | 602 (+4) | Indolent.com |
| 65 (-14) | 611 (-17) | PR Voice |
| 66 (NEW) | 617 (NEW) | 25 letters in the alphabet |
| 67 (-17) | 650 (-58) | In the Cowshed |
| 68 (-15) | 655 (-42) | Offer and Acceptance |
| 69 (-15) | 666 (-24) | Creative in London |
| 70 (-13) | 673 (+15) | From PR to Eternity |
| 71 (NEW) | 678 (NEW) | 10 Yetis PR Blog |
| 72 (-16) | 685 (-5) | Yet Another Planning Blog |
| 73 (NEW) | 689 (NEW) | Digital Examples |
| 74 (-19) | 716 (-50) | PRwordSmith |
| 75 (NEW) | 731 (NEW) | CarbonGraffiti |
| 76 (NEW) | 745 (NEW) | noticing |
| 77 (NEW) | 746 (NEW) | From the Cowshed |
Woo hoo ! I only entered the ad age 150 on a whim last week, so this is all pretty crazy for me...
Posted by: Nicola Davies | 01 August 2008 at 11:13 AM
In that case, Nicola, nice work! Delighted that the whole thing paid off for you!
Look forward to watching you continue a meteoric rise up the charts.
Cheers now,
J.
Posted by: James Gordon-MacIntosh | 01 August 2008 at 11:33 AM
Nice post James, thanks for providing this resource. All of the media evaluation and PR measurement bods at Metrica will wait eagerly to see how Measurement Matters gets on - can't wait to measure our own social media performance!
Posted by: Richard Bagnall | 01 August 2008 at 06:55 PM
Thanks for taking the effort to put this together James. There's some great people are great new reads there too!
Posted by: Paul Fabretti | 02 August 2008 at 12:33 PM
Ah, damn - I should have put my blog into the mix; it was in the top 100k worldwide, but I bet it's far lower now.
Posted by: Will | 02 August 2008 at 09:47 PM
Richard: no worries matey. Will in that case, likewise watch with interest.
Paul: no trouble. And aye, there's a lot of really good shit written about the industry out there. Has to be said that the best stuff isn't always written by the people at the top of the list.
Will: yes you should have matey. Tho I am afraid to say that your blog is outside the top 3.5 million these days - see also http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/wannabeadman.blogspot.com
Thanks all for stopping by.
Cheers,
J.
Posted by: James Gordon-MacIntosh | 02 August 2008 at 10:40 PM
Very cool. I think going from PR0 to PR4 probably helped this month!
It's always very strange seeing how the ranking compare to my own perception of quality...
Posted by: Dan Thornton | 03 August 2008 at 12:58 AM
Aye, but thankfully the whole thing remains subjective, Dan. Thanks for stopping by!
Cheers, J.
Posted by: James Gordon-MacIntosh | 03 August 2008 at 06:50 PM
Nice list, busy subscribing to more blogs right now. But you missed me off :(
Posted by: Rachel | 04 August 2008 at 10:55 PM
Arse.
Apologies Rachel - am sure that I got you in the last ones of these, not sure how you slipped this time.
Will make sure that gets sorted with the next one. In the meantime, many apologies.
BTW, nice piece on the latest Doritos campaign, enjoyed reading that.
All the best - and thanks for stopping by,
J x
Posted by: James Gordon-MacIntosh | 05 August 2008 at 12:06 AM
Great to see my (6-month-old) blog so high on this list! I have the widget on my site and it is amusing to see the number get smaller and smaller. My Alexa rank just dropped below the 200k level so I will be jumping somewhere in the next day or two.
Posted by: Cindy King | 17 August 2008 at 12:51 PM