One Million Bloggers in France

Posted on November 24, 2006

The AFP is reporting that France has nearly one million bloggers and is the most active European country blogwise according to a new Forrester Research study.

Still, only three percent of Europe's estimated 130 million Internet users create blogs, it said, adding that most of the bloggers were in France, Italy and Spain.
"France today is still the country that blogs the most, with nearly one million active bloggers," the study said.
The report was based on a survey of 7,377 online consumers in seven countries -- Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden.
It found that, unsurprisingly, bloggers tended to be young and first-adopters of new technology -- those for whom any IT innovation is a must-have.

One of the blogging hubs in France, Skyblog.com, is about to expand into other countries according to a New York Times article.

After attracting 11.1 million unique visitors each month to the station's online social network, Skyblog.com, Mr. Bellanger is planning to reach for the skies in January. That is when he intends to spin off new blogs in German, Spanish and English to offer the same rich, raucous mix of the inner thoughts and videos of thousands of young bloggers.

Skyblog.com will likely be followed across borders by many other successful European blogs and social networks as they look to expand their audience by publishing in more languages.