Number of Adsense Publishers

Is there any indication?

[zett]

I just wondered whether Google has ever published the number of (active) Adsense publishers? Or has someone else any remotely accurate information on this?

I'd guesstimate that Adsense has between 500,000 and 1,000,000 publishers.

[Quadrille]

More guess than estimate, I suspect! :)

Not that I can do any better. 1.5 million worldwide? ;)

Amazon (started 1996) is approaching one million affiliates, according to a recent blog - I suspect Google has exceeded this in less than half the time, because with Amazon, people believe they can make silly money and soon, but with Google's Adsense, they seem to believe they will Get Rich Overnight. An unlikely occurrence, in my experience!

But I suspect it's not a very useful statistic, as there's no standard size; they vary through every possible size between one page sites and The Really Big Ones.

[HuskyPup]

FWIW a couple of years ago we calculated roughly and based upon Google's cheque numbers, if I remember correctly that there were about 45,000 publishers, of course it has exploded since then with all and sundry plus almost every blog in the world seemingly having AdSense.

An interesting discussion from last year/year before was how many AdSensers never get paid since they never get to the USD 100 minimum and who has THAT money?

[Quadrille]

So long as they remain hopeful (and mebers!), Google holds the moey in their name, just itching to post it. Once they cease to be mebers, then I guess Google holds the money in, er, Google's name.

What would YOU do ;)

[HuskyPup]

What would YOU do ;)

LOL, save it all for that quarter, which will inevitably happen sometime, when earnings have gone totally belly up:-))

It would be really interesting to know just how much it amounts to, several USD million I would guess, it would only need 100,000 publishers with USD 10 per account for each USD 1 million...

All that "free" money going begging:-)

[Temuchin]

thats an interesting question huskypup, what happens to that money....that is a lot of money...damn:))

[europeforvisitors]

thats an interesting question huskypup, what happens to that money....that is a lot of money...damn:))

Whether that's a lot of money depends on your perspective. I could live on it for a long time, but it's a drop in the bucket for a network with nearly 1.5 billion dollars in quarterly revenues!