Inside LabourStart

I am changing the format of the monthly reports.  Each will now have a brief summary of highlights followed by the usual long list of numbers.

SUMMARY:

Our new podcast service is picking up and this month we passed the 5,000 downloads mark.  Older episodes continue to see new downloads, suggesting that the word is still getting out about the series.  This despite no concerted push to publicize it in the last month.

We continue to see large changes in the mailing lists as the problems that resulted from several mailing service provider changes are corrected.

Last month we started reporting on the global English-language Bluesky account which was created mid-month.  Currently we have just two Blusky accounts:  The global account and an English-language Canadian news feed are active now but if the site continues to grow others will be added.

XTwitter feeds continue to decline.  Most or all of that can be attributed to progressives abandoning the platform for Bluesky and perhaps Mastodon.

Our other numbers remain fairly stable.

THE NUMBERS:

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the last report. Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since our last report.

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.  Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.

STORIES POSTED TO OUR NEWS SITE:

2196 (71 per day)

 

MAILING LISTS:

The lists are being rebuilt after some technical hiccups so the numbers can be expected to fluctuate considerably over the next month or two.

The top 10:

English: 84860-84800

French: 7075-7642

German: 5511-5503

Spanish: 5553-5979

Turkish: 4460-4367

Korean: 3197-3321

Italian: 2824-2819

Russian: 2677-2672

Norwegian: 1996

Romanian:  1730

Dutch: 1437-1536

 

The others:

Arabic:  763

Belarusian:  288

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 964

Creole:  11

Czech: 58

Danish: 79

Esperanto: 187

Farsi:  164

Finnish:  439-438

Georgian:  176

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  270

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  172-169

Indonesian:  385

Japanese: 382

Lithuanian:  62

Malaysian: 20

Polish: 964

Portuguese: 1274

Punjabi:  2

Serbian:  97

Sinhalese: 1

Slovak: 15

Swedish: 909

Tagalog: 183

Thai:  142

Ukrainian: 493

Vietnamese:  21

Internal:

Executive:  12

Interns and Past Interns:  15

LabourStart Correspondents:  608

LabourStart Translators:  104

Africa Caucus:  63

Media Contacts: 69-51

Donors:  885

 

FLICKR:

Members:  840

Photos:  10354-10366 after cull of inappropriate contributions.

 

TELEGRAM:

LabourStart channel:  132-131

 

FACEBOOK PAGES/GROUPS:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

LabourStart.org page likes:  14k, details unavailable

Global Labour News and Information: 9.2k-9188

LabourStart UK likes:  2.1k-2k, details unavailable

LabourStart Francophone: 620-607 (last post February 2021)

LabourStart-de: 489-495

LabourStart Brasil:  552-550

LabourStart Turkce:  2k, details unavailable

LabourStart TV likes: 465-462

LabourStart TV follows:  455

LabourStart Vostok:  119

LabourStart Italia:  68

LabourStart Esperanto:  18

LabourStart Canada-English: 191-188

LabourStart Nepal:  7 (last post April 2017)

LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)

 

LINKEDIN:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

Group: 2637-2636

Page: 316-318

 

PODCASTS:

We passed the 5000 downloads mark last month.  By labour podcast standards this is considered more than reasonable given the effort required.

LabourStart is a member of the US-based Labor Radio / Podcast Network.

Rather than list each podcast and the numbers of times they have been downloaded we will report the three (3) podcasts that have been downloaded the most times to date.

1. 418 downloads: Interview with Carlos Ching-Hung Wang, the president of the China Steel Express Union (Taiwan).
2. 318 downloads: Interview with Sally McManus, Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)
3. 299 downloads: Interview with Judith Kirton-Darling, General Secretary of IndustriAll Europe.

 

BLUESKY:

As an experiment we created a global news in English feed mid-November.  The account is growing far more quickly than any other of our social media accounts ever did.  A Canadian English-language feed was added in late December.

Our Mastodon experience, as with most people’s, was not great as the initial excitement wore off quite quickly.  That does not appear to be happening with Bluesky.

No concerted effort was made to grow either account last month.

Global English-language: 9.4k-5.9k, details unavailable.

Canada-English-language 104

 

X (TWITTER as-was):

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these accounts.  If we wish to maintain our footprint we will have to start doing so again or the erosion of our numbers will continue.  Whether that is possible is another question given the current flight of users from the platform.

We experienced decline in all accounts.  Prior to the exodus to Bluesky all would have usually experienced slow growth without any effort on our part.  This is almost certainly the result of trade unionists closing their Twitter accounts and moving to other platforms (such as Bluesky or Mastodon).

Global English: 37049-37321

Canada English: 21516-21637

Global Portuguese: 10086-10131

Global Spanish: 10373-10835

Australia: 9637-9695

USA: 4744-4805

Canada French: 3189-3199

Russian: 49

Hebrew:  50 (last tweet 02-2021)

Italian: 508 (last tweet 11-2021)

Swedish: 329-330 (last tweet 2016)

Indonesia: 341 (last tweet 2015)

French: 224 (last tweet 2018)

German: 120 (last tweet 2018)

Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)

Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)

Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)

South Asia (English): 28 Placeholder and not yet active.