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Does any of you know how many Adsensers there are in the world? I guess the majority of them will be in the USA. But how many of us are there in for example in the UK, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, etcetera? As I understand there are many of us in India. But how many Adsensers would there be in the African continent? Just give me your thoughts...
One of the reasons I ask this, is that I know no one who does Adsense in all of my surroundings (family, friends, work). Bit weird, isn't it? They can't possibly all be so secretive about it as I am;-)
I just knew one friend back in college who used Adsense. As a matter of fact, it was thru him that I learnt about it.
And after that I havent encountered one person at work or college or friends that have mentioned anything about adsense.
so it is weird. Either ppl dont know abt it or dont like to disclose it.
It's a secret;-) We won't tell all people...
Sorry, I don't know how many adsense accounts there are, but it is an interesting question. I'll guess "more than there were yesterday."
And your guess on approximately how much percentage of the total Adsense Users would that be?
How accurate I was I have no idea however it did bear out reasonably accurately with the known pay-out from Adsense and the assumed or known average earnngs per person at that time.
I cannot recall where that average came from.
I'm probably completely and utterly incorrect however almost definitely there are more now notwithstanding those defectors to YPN which are 99.99% US based!
Oops--Arnie P. in Redwood Falls just got banned. Make that 138,461.
Just imagine how many people sign up a day. (and how many of them aren't accepted)
when comparing issued cheque numbers...Was this before EFT? Even so, it assumes just one account is used for payment wordwide. If true this would be a good ballpark, but I think more than one issuing account worldwide is very likely.
[edited by: martinibuster at 5:00 am (utc) on Mar. 12, 2006]
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Was this before EFT?
Yes, so far as I am aware there were only two payment methods:
1. All cheques issued from one address sent bt regular post, hence all the "Cheque received" posts.
2. USD $10,000.00+ earners were in the UPS club and had theirs delivered by UPS courier. I don't know if the seriously big earners had any special arrangements.
Even so, it assumes just one account is used for payment wordwide. If true this would be a good ballpark, but I think more than one issuing account worldwide is very likely.
I'm reasonably confident that until EFT there was only one issuing department in Mountain View? I'm not ure now whether all cheques emanate from MV again. They did use London for a while, and Dublin, Bombay?, and one or two other places but there seems to have been a bit of a mess up!
There were 138,462 publishers in the AdSense network as of 11:11 p.m. GMT on March 11.
11.11 on the 11th...:-)
Then again how many are active Adsensers?
The difference between the check numbers issued in Dec 04 and Jan 05 was 44,228.
I'm not too sure now, the recent cheques I have received are from Buffalo, NY 14240-4037, ordered by Google at Mountain View, all, I think, have come posted from Sweden!
All my paperwork pertaining to that time's with my bookkeeper right now!
Implicitly he may be saying that there is no answer to the question posed by the OP because the answer is sensitive information of a competitive nature.
Ok, back on topic:
How many Adsensers are there?
Worldwide, by continent and country...
My answer?
There are probably no publicly available numbers because it's sensitive information of a competitive nature.
hehe
Now, if we knew the average publisher's revenue we would know the approximate number of AdSensers...
and how many of them aren't accepted
is it really so difficult to be accepted? what kind of website do you need to not be included in the adsense program? :)
[edited by: moTi at 6:18 am (utc) on Mar. 12, 2006]
The 6.14b revenue is from the Yahoo Finance website and is actually the ttm (Trailing Twelve Months). AdSense revenues are 2.56 billion for 2005 which does not include AdWords revenue from Google search pages.
These figures are of little consequense anyway because as Moti points out there is a very long tail of AdSense publishers that make almost nothing skewing the average down.
None of the other makes any sense to me, you'll have to explain it a little better...
As we have already established, the vast majority of adsensers are just earning a few extra dollars a month, most of them running small hobby sites. And yes the 20/80 rule might apply here too. As a matter of fact, when it comes to websites being read that rule probably holds true too. I mean, the vast majority of websites (with our without Adsense) get very little traffic while a small percentage of all websites might get the vast majority of all traffic.
Wow, I trust you Europe, but, that is far less that I would have ever guessed!
Never really thought about it, but I would have guessed in the many millions, not in the very low 100,000's.
I would guess that less than 10% get a monthly check? Wow, that number is really low!
G! seems very vulnerable in light of this knowledge!
Wow, I trust you Europe, but, that is far less that I would have ever guessed!
Erm - he's JOKING! The moderator pointed out that it's sensitive information and Google won't reveal it.
I personally don't care how many publishers are in the program - what I care about is how well it works for me. As far as I'm concerned, currently there is enough pie to go round.
Never really thought about it, but I would have guessed in the many millions, not in the very low 100,000's.
Millions? From where do you get that rationale?
According to Netcraft there are approximately 78 million host names of which almost 39 million are active.
As much as most of us distrust Alexa figures, it is most unlikely that any site not in the top 1 million would have enough traffic to ever make a few Dollars unless it was a niche within a very well linked niche.
How many of the top 10,000 sites even carry contextual advertising apart from the obvious ones? Extrapolate that same figure across many other popular sites and I would doubt that 10% of the top million carry contextual ads.
G! seems very vulnerable in light of this knowledge!
Why? Let's say 20,000 reasonably successful publishers is no different to having 20,000 employees working on a commission only basis.
I have 7,500 employees and have to find work for them every day of the week and make a profit from their endeavours. Google has an army of people prepared to work worldwide in many different languages without any guarantee of either work or wages and both can terminate the agreement at a moment's notice.
Ok they are two completely different business models however Google provides us for free the tools with which to create a business. I supply the tools and infrastructure with which to manufacture a product and distribute and sell worldwide.
I will tell you now, Adsense is a darned site easier than industry!
The mass is very important because it builds stability.
Many companies survive simply because of mass support, any company without that mass in an open market is venerable.
Let's say you have 25 million loyal users, that is a good mass, but what if 10 million of those users are not truly loyal? Now you are on shaky ground!
AOL & Yahoo tied people to their products via email, has Google really done that?
If the number of Adsensers is truly low, then it hasn't achieved loyalty, it has generated a market for someone else to take away!
The AdWords program began on Google's search pages and that is still the biggest money-maker for them. If Google loses its caché as search engine it is in danger though. If Google stops being a commonly used verb, Google is in trouble. But I just haven't heard of anyone "Yahooing" or "MSNing" things. It's not like Y & M are not trying. Google's secret sauce may be getting thinner but that doesn't matter until the public notices in a big way. They may.
Partner sites (such as ours) generated 42% of Google's 4Q 2005 revenues.
What was once the greatest communication company in all of history (Western Union) is now doing petty cash errands. Things change. Google is still in a good position to remain the greatest organizer of information for many years to come but I don't see that they have a lock on it. There is much more inertia in the relationship between AdSensers and Google than between searchers and Google. Their search quality is less a factor in their dominance now than their name recognition. They did gain dominance with search quality but they are maintaining it now with marketing.
