Advertising's Young Minds: The top 27 blogs of people under 27 (September Update)

As promised here is the update of the Advertising Young Minds list: The Top 27 (53) blogs of advertising bloggers under 27. I will do the next update in December, if you are eligible for the list, drop me your URL, country and age in the comments.

Blog Name Country Google Reader Tech Authority Score Tech Reactions 10 Total
1 Jack Cheng (25) US 1021 167 209 1397
2 Noah Brier (27) US 729 309 87 1125
3 Young PR (25) AUS 751 174 63 988
4 Digital Buzz (24) AUS 612 111 63 786
5 Adspace Pioneers (24) AUS 244 337 82 663
6 The Lost Jacket USA 237 55 144 436
7 Jye Smith (23) AUS 56 260 27 343
8 Heron Preston (26) US 238 51 13 302
9 Selective Amnesia (27) IND 222 33 11 266
10 Yaybia (22-24) USA 179 58 19 256
11 Ryan Stephens Marketing USA 146 92 0 238
12 Cellar Door (27) US 122 63 28 213
13 The-Ad-Pit (27) UK 120 53 21 194
14 Confessions of a Wannabe Adman (25) UK 112 61 17 190
15 Creative in London (26) UK 140 13 28 181
16 Pigs Don’t Fly (20) AUS 52 95 24 171
17 The Spinks Blog(21) USA 80 64 21 165
18 Adgrads (25) UK 103 14 20 137
19 Way Cool Jnr (25) AUS 86 50 0 136
20 Everything's Better With Brentter USA 60 48 17 125
21 Nicola Davies (25) UK 73 36 13 122
22 Advertising Pawn (26) FRA 29 19 48 96
23 Trend Planner (24) UK 46 16 9 71
24 Nil Desperandum (27) HK 19 34 7 60
25 Don´t go dizzy (?) ROM 42 7 9 58
26 More Stupid than the others (20) UK 50 5 2 57
27 Lexy Klain (25) AUS 33 14 6 53
28 Michael Karnjanaprakorn (27) US 32 11 5 48
29 OMG With Emily (?) AUS 26 13 4 43
30 CIIMS (25) AUS 27 8 5 40
31 Who is in control of your brand (25) AUS 5 8 25 38
32 Quintessentially Digital (25) AUS 22 9 2 33
33 Lauren Fernandez (?) USA 23 9 0 32
34 Stuff That Is Relevant ? 31 1 0 32
35 Joely Righteous (23) AUS 11 11 8 30
36 I hate Ads AUS 22 5 1 28
37 Refined Geek (24) AUS 15 7 1 23
38 Digestion (?) US 10 8 4 22
39 Gruen Transfer (21) AUS 11 6 1 18
40 Who put the devil in you? (?) AUS 12 4 0 16
41 Love number two ( AUS 9 5 0 14
42 Maloney on marketing (26) AUS 6 4 4 14
43 Post Modern PR UK 4 5 4 13
44 Kruppy Rants (27) AUS 9 3 0 12
45 Michael Allison CAN 9 3 0 12
46 Simon Says (20) AUS 3 4 4 11
47 Accidental Thinking (26) US 9 0 0 9
48 The Bottom Rung (22) CAN 2 4 2 8
49 Frank, Hayley and the circus (22) AUS 4 3 1 8
50 Another Advertising Wanker (26) AUS 2 3 0 5
51 Chris Kamen (26) ? 4 0 1 5
52 Think Chimp AUS 2 0 0 2
53 AMC Guy (21) USA 0 0 0 0
54 Sidere (26) SPA 0 0 0 0



Requirements to be on the list
1. Your blog must be written in english

2. Your blog must have been active for the past 3 months

3. Your blog must show some original thinking, it´s not enough to have a blog with ads to be in this list.

4. You must be 27 years old or under

5. You must work or want to work in advertising or any other marketing communications specialty, it doesn´t matter if you´re a planner, copywriter, art director, account executive or else.

6. You can only have one blog in the rank.

33 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oooh different methodology to the pioneer blog rankings...any reason why?

Should've put my name in before turning 21, but with age comes more reason...right?

(Good luck keeping up with everyone's birthdays now!)

Sandra French said...

You should definitely have Pete Williams' blog www.PReneurMarketing.com on this list - The dude is 27 and kicking major goals - was just announced as 1 of 3 global finalists in the JCI Create Young Entrepreneur Awards for 2009.

Advertising A Little Older said...

Why not Advertising's Little Bit Older Minds: The top blogs of people between the age of 46 & 47?:)

Unknown said...

I'll throw my hat into the ring, I'm a 24 yr old Junior Planner, blogging here: http://m-eye.net.

Well done Trendplanner, loving your work!

Tom Gibson said...

Great idea collating these! Please include my blog in the December update. I'm a 22 year old planner.

http://www.thebookofrevelations.co.uk/

Anonymous said...

Thanks for adding my blog to the list Julian.

Thelink doesnt seem to be working though so could you update to www.maloneyonmarketing.com

Cheers

Chris

sam joseph said...

wow. makes it feel like those three years of blogging have meant something. for the chart, i'm stuff that is relevant: age 26 and from US. thanks!

sam joseph said...

sorry, the link is broken for www.stuffthatisrelevant.com. thanks again.

Luke & Wilf beta said...

Nice.

Consider ours please, two lads (21 & 22) working as creatives in the UK and attempting to work in a digital agency.

Julian Cole said...

No worries Luke and Wilf, I will add you guys to the list! That is an awesome tagline you got on your blog there too!

Sam I have fixed the link to Stuffthatisrelevant!

Matt said...

24 yr old graduate! Digital Creatives is a not for profit blog which helps other graduates get into the creative industries http://digital-creatives.com/
Already been featured in NMA, The Drum and Contagious magazines! Oh and grads have got work through the site which is the biggest success! Thanks

David M. said...

I don't think this guy is under 27 but this is one of the best blogs for advertising students I've seen:

http://www.TheAdClass.com

Very very cool stuff.

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sam joseph said...

i was being a nerd and looking at this again. my tech authority score - if i understand it - might be off because my real url is samadblog.blogspot.com...

http://m.technorati.com/blogs/samadblog.blogspot.com

sorry for the confusion... believe me, everyday i wish i had my blogspot url the same as my blog title (stuff that is relevant)

thanks again!

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Aden Hepburn said...

Hey Julian, when is your next major list update? By my calcs it should be pretty soon?

Hope all is well with you?

Cheers
Aden

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