Top 30 Canadian Marketing and Advertising Blogs - Week 1 at Experience Planner by Scott Weisbrod

Top 30 Canadian Marketing and Advertising Blogs - Week 1

Published August 29th, 2007 in Top 30 Canadian Marketing and Advertising Blogs

AdAge started tracking the top 150+ marketing and advertising blogs. As of today, they were tracking 427 blogs. Read about the methodology here to understand how rank is determined. Joseph Thornley, who blogs at Pro PR, broke the news - here and here - on this a couple of weeks ago and let his readers know that there are a bunch of Canadian blogs included in the 150+ blogs being tracker.

In the spirit of Mack Collier’s Top 25 marketing blogs, I’ll post the top 30 Canadian marketing and advertising blogs once a week here on Experience Planner. It’ll be pretty lo-fi for now - just a plain list (see below). At some point, maybe someone can lend me a hand in setting up a tool that scrapes the AdAge Power 150 that automates extracting and sorting the list.

Without further ado - here are the top 30 Canadian marketing and advertising blogs for the week of August 27, 2007!

Update - Here’s a badge for y’all:

34 Responses to “Top 30 Canadian Marketing and Advertising Blogs - Week 1”

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1 Michael Seaton Aug 29th, 2007 at 6:20 pm

Good idea splitting out the Canucks from the list and doing a weekly summary. Mack needs some competition in the list business!

Cheers,
Michael
2 Mitch Joel Aug 29th, 2007 at 7:36 pm

#4 with a bullet?

Just kidding.

This is very cool… I find this weird though. Here we are trying to build community and we’re being ranked like old-school media and pitted against one another.

I guess if this is how we’re keeping score, I’m humbled to be included.

Great initiative Scott.
3 scottweisbrod Aug 29th, 2007 at 11:32 pm

Mitch,

I read your comment and my first reaction was one of embarrassment. I thought, “Oh no! The last thing I wanted to was perpetuate an old-school way of thinking”. I thought about it some more though and settled on that it’s not so much about pitting one blogger against another - it’s really about raising awareness around some of the great blogging happening in Canada.

I’ll say one thing - I had no idea about Twist Image until I noticed it in the AdAge 150.

We have a lot of interesting things to stay and while ranking may be a little old school, I’m totally pumped about being able to publish a list of Canadian blogs that are turning heads all around the world!

Scott
4 David Jones Aug 29th, 2007 at 11:37 pm

Mitch…you love it. Admit it. I’m not sure those of us on the list care about the rankings that much beyond the usual desire for validation that we feel. There are a lot of bloggers who do their best to link whore so they can rise up the various rankings and they are obvious and often times not worth reading.

But I think the benefit of lists like this is they allow for people just discovering this space to get a little direction to discover their first blogs to consume.

As you said, it’s nice to be included, but perhaps you and I should collaborate on a regular list of newly discovered marketing/PR blogs that would accomplish the community building you’re looking for.

Scott, thanks for including me and giving us yet another thing to debate and discuss.
5 Mitch Joel Aug 30th, 2007 at 6:12 am

I meant it in a quasi-sarcastic way

But, if you think about it - Blogs are based on folksonomy - non-hierarchical taxonomy that democratizes the voice. The humour of ranking and listing things like Blogs in a hierarchical fashion should not be lost.

I agree with Michael’s comment. When I saw your post, my initial reaction was, “why didn’t I think of that?”

And like all great new things, you want people to have a reaction like that.
6 Saul Colt Aug 30th, 2007 at 7:58 am

No mention of my blog www.saulcolt.blogspot.com I guess I will need to try harder!

saul
The Smartest Man in the World
7 scottweisbrod Aug 30th, 2007 at 8:47 am

Saul,

Email Charlie Moran (cmoran@adage.com) at AdAge. Let him know your blog name, URL and country of origin and they’ll included it in the Power 150 .

Scott
8 Saul Colt Aug 30th, 2007 at 10:05 am

Thanks for the tip Scott. My email has been sent!

Best

saul
9 Dino Aug 30th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

Nice job Scott!

So many good Canadian weblogs, I’m proud to be included.

And remember: it may be a list with rankings, but we’re all winners, each of us in our own special way. lol!

D
10 Michael Allison Aug 30th, 2007 at 6:28 pm

I actually made the list? Awesome! Now, if I get pitched crap, I can blame you.

-Michael
11 scottweisbrod Aug 30th, 2007 at 11:24 pm

HA! Blame yourself, Michael!
12 Sean Howard Sep 1st, 2007 at 4:01 pm

Great idea to pull out the Canadians!

Now if someone could just nail down what makes Canadian blogs different from American blogs…
13 Eric Eggertson Sep 5th, 2007 at 10:04 am

“There are a lot of bloggers who do their best to link whore so they can rise up the various rankings…”

I like to think of myself as a Link Connoisseur!
14 Sean Moffitt Sep 5th, 2007 at 10:09 am

Scott,

Thanks for the effort here…it looks like you’ve struck up a good debate too.

How did I miss getting you into 1% army…there’s a couple of new finds that I’;ve missed, congrats on parsing them out…

If you have more than passing interest, I have thought about an idea on this front - drop me a line if you have interest to know more..

Thanks again for the inclusion and hope we can grab a coffee soon.

Sean
15 Kate Trgovac Sep 6th, 2007 at 4:57 pm

Nice one, Scott! And I like the badge! I chime in with the others .. thanks for taking this on. I wonder, is it self serving to cross publish on One Degree? Would other Canadian Internet marketers be interested?

Sean … having spent time on both sides of the border, we’re cuter and much more humble Hey, are you even ALLOWED to be on this list? Is it location-based? Or something … deeper. Maybe how good you look in a mountie uniform?
16 Jordan Sep 10th, 2007 at 2:29 pm

Hey Scott,

Thanks for the inclusion on the list! I’m one of those that doesn’t spend all day obsessing over links etc (as much anymore), but does spend all day gloating when I’m bestowed with such an honour (yes, that’s right. with a u) as to be on a list with the likes of the rest of the Canuck bloggers chosen.

Face it, world. Canadians rule.
17 maggie fox Sep 23rd, 2007 at 7:03 am

Nice to be in such great company!
18 Ed Lee Sep 26th, 2007 at 12:40 pm

thanks for the badge - love it!
great initiative to seperate the wheat from the chaf - it’ll be interesting to see how the list evolves…

Ed
19 Angus Gastle Oct 1st, 2007 at 7:44 pm

Damn….. I’m the next Canadian blog down on the AdAge150 from Youngblood PR & Marketing.

Not for long though hehe
20 Paul Crowe Nov 3rd, 2007 at 5:05 pm

Hey Scott,

Where can I find the updated list?

Cheers,

Paul

www.adjoke.blogspot.com
21 Ian Lee Dec 4th, 2007 at 3:38 am

Looks like AdAge just added Alexa’s rating to their formula for calculating placement. So how much did this affect everyone?
22 Barry Welford Jan 29th, 2008 at 9:04 am

Great initiative. Honoured to be (twice) in such great company. Rankings are fine, it just gives a little more zest. I’ve never liked alphabetical listings being a W at birth. Random would be .. well .. confusing. Anyway thanks once more for doing this. From the comments it clearly is strongly appreciated.
23 Angus Gastle Jul 23rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm

Are you ever going to update this? We must be top 5 by now!

Angus
24 imene Oct 22nd, 2008 at 3:29 am

great idea and it’s very useful for the marketers(future one)like me…..i hope to be in correspondance with some of them from canada so if you are interressted so welcome.and if not please let this news be known by others thak’s before.
25 Ad Girl Jul 29th, 2009 at 2:57 pm

Adgoodness was one of my inspirations for http://www.adgirlandtechnerd.com . Glad to see him at the top of your list.