How many adsense publishers are there

any guesses or does google report how many publishers?

[howiejs]

Hi - someone asked me today "how many people were running adsense ads" - I was wondering if there are any thoughts / or hard numbers from google on this?

[loanuniverse]

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Maybe by substracting check numbers

[werty]

Whatever the number was, it certainly increased this last week:
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