Editing Blogosphere (section)

=== Revenue ===
In a 2010 Technorati study, 36% of bloggers reported some sort of income from their blogs, most often in the form of ad revenue.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{Cite web |last=Sobel |first=J. |date=2010 |title=State of the Blogosphere 2010 Introduction |url=http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010-introduction/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20120106092218/http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010-introduction/ |archive-date=2012-01-06 |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=technorati.com}}</ref> This shows a steady increase from their 2009 report, in which 28% of the blogging world reported their blog as a source of income, with the mean annual income from advertisements at $42,548.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009 |title=Day 4: Blogging Revenues, Brands and Blogs: SOTB 2009 - Technorati Blogging |url=http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-4-blogging-revenues-brands-and/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027230905/http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-4-blogging-revenues-brands-and/ |archive-date=2011-10-27 |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=technorati.com}}</ref> Other common sources of blog-related income are paid speaking engagements and paid postings.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> Paid postings may be subject to rules on clearly disclosing commercial advertisements as such (regulated by, for example, the [[Federal Trade Commission]] in the US and the [[Advertising Standards Authority (United Kingdom)|Advertising Standards Authority]] in the UK).