Top 30 Blog Sales of all time

Posted on 11. Aug, 2009 by admin in Blogging

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To show you the power of blogging, today we look at the top 30 sales of blogs of all time, in this list we have included single blogs, blog networks and blog platforms.

Some of the numbers are quite astounding. Could you build the next $100Million blog ?

Blog Name	Owner	Sold to	Amount
Ugo	Ugo Entertainment	Hearst Corporation	$100 Million
Fotolog	Scott Heiferman	Hi-Media Group	$90 Million
Paidcontent	Rafat Ali	Guardian Media Group	$30 Million
Tatter and Company	Chang-Won Kim /Chester Roh	Google	$30 Million
Weblogs Inc	Brian Alvey/Jason Calcanis	AOL	$25 Million
Ars Technica	Ken “Caesar” Fisher	Conde Nast Publications	$25 Million
LiveJournal	Brad Fitzpatrick/Six Apart	Six Apart to SUP	$20 Million
Bankaholic	John Wu	Bankrate.com	$15 Million
Deadline Hollywood	Nikki Finke	Mail Media Corp.	$15 Million
instapundit	Glenn Reynolds	AOL	$12 Million
Blog Herald	The Bloggy Net	The Bloggy Network	$12 Million
Wonkette	Gawker Media	Ken Layne	$12 Million
celebrity babies	Danielle Friedland	Times Inc	$10 Million
Tree Hugger	Graham Hill	Discovery Communication	$10 Million
Freakanomics	Stephen J. Dubner	NY Times	$8 Million
The Consumerist	Gawker Media	Consumer Media LLC,	$7 Million
World Hum	Jim Benning and Michael Yessis	Travel Channel	$6 Million
arseblog	Andrew Managan	OleOle	$5 Million
gCaptain	John Konrad/gCaptain	Unofficial Networks	$1.9Million
GardenRant	Susan Harris	GardenWeb	$1.3 Million
CGBlog	Peter Stinson	Unofficial Networks	$1.2 Million
Gridskipper	Gawker Media	Curbed	$750,000
Idolator	Gawker Media	Buzznet	$500,000
jkOnTheRun	James Kendrick / Kevin Tofel	Giga Omni Media	$400,000
Basic Thinking	Robert Basic	Serverloft	$66,000
GatherLittlebyLittle	GatherLittlebyLittle	The Financial Blogger	$15,000
momscashblog	Kristi	JJ	$10,000
Blog Oh! Blog	Bob Jiwakacau	Jainis Chalvecma	$10,000
Blogging Fingers	Matt Jones	Revenuewire	$6,000

Hopefully this list inspires you to work harder on your blog – it may not be exhaustive so if you know of any other large blog sales, please leave them in the comments.

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7 Comments

Will

11. Aug, 2009

Weblogs Inc. was sold for 30 million, not 25 million. It was originally reported as 25 but verified to be 30.

Anthony

25. Aug, 2009

I find it hard to believe that 5 of the “top 30″ went for under 100k. I wonder how many blogs were sold for over 100k that were not accounted for here.