LabourStart in Numbers – June 2012
Headline news –
- 98,427 subscribers to our lists – we are only days away from reaching 100,000
- Growth of lists – especially English – is very slow, as partner unions fail to generate new supporters and we continue pushing campaigns at the same people month after month
- Twitter – over 500 new followers in the last two months
- Facebook page now only 101 ‘likes’ away from being bigger than Facebook group
Mailing lists (greater than 100)
Total for all lists: 97,538 [95,921]
English: 72,889 [72,726]
French: 5,701 [5,627]
Italian: 3,876 [3,883]
Spanish: 3,857 [3,775]
Norwegian: 2,424 [2,433]
German: 2,280 [2,195]
Russian: 1,738 [1,768]
Turkish: 1,280 [1,161]
Dutch: 736 [736]
Chinese: 488 [357]
Polish: 306 [306]
Portuguese: 247 [246]
Japanese: 209 [ 205]
Swedish: 196 [170]
Farsi 190 [188]
Finnish: 184 [184]
Danish: 158 [106]
Hebrew 155 [106]
Arabic: 140 [114]
And just below the radar:
Korean 93 [93]
Social networks
UnionBook –
Members: 5,190 [5,144]
Facebook –
Members of LabourStart group: 4,767 [4,775]
Like LabourStart.org page (English): 4,666 [4,495]
Like LabourStart page (French): 201 [195]
Twitter followers –
English: 6,719 [6,414]
The following numbers will be updated next month, unless someone wants to do this now …
French: 110 [104]
Japanese: 25 [24]
Spanish: 20 [18]
Norwegian: 9 [8]
Italian: 8 [6]
German: 7 [8]
Turkish: 6 [5]
Portuguese: 4 [5]
Russian: 4 [5]
Dutch: 2 [2]
Union group on Flickr: 693 [687]
LinkedIn – LabourStart group: 913 [890]
Website
Correspondents: 985 [978]
Unique visits to the site this month : 547,625 [630,351]
Peak day: 23,659 – 13 June
Page views this month: 1,206,879 [1,271,874]
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You’re right, the only way to continue the growth of the mailing lists is for sponsor unions to flog the campaigns they ask us to run, rather than ‘contracting-out’ the entire campaign (or at least its online component) to us.
This was underlined for me by the recent growth of the LeadNow.ca mailing list. from 80,000 to 150,000 in a couple of weeks, all because they ran a campaign that had the support of a number of major unions and a couple of civil society groups. I received more mailings from the supporting unions than I did from LeadNow. Their list benefitted tremendously from that push and the resulting cross-fertilization.