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  "title": "Blogging Statistics 2026: Post Length, Writing Time, AI Use and Results",
  "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/blogging-statistics/",
  "updated": "2026-10-30",
  "licence": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data-licence/",
  "attribution": "Source: [publisher] via StatisticsGlobal (https://statisticsglobal.org/blogging-statistics/)",
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      "source_type": "Vendor survey",
      "publisher": "Orbit Media Studios",
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      "sentence": "13% of bloggers published 2 to 6 posts a week in 2026, down from 28% in 2014, according to Orbit Media Studios.",
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      "source_type": "Vendor survey",
      "publisher": "Orbit Media Studios",
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      "publisher": "Orbit Media Studios",
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      "source_type": "Vendor survey",
      "publisher": "Orbit Media Studios",
      "source_title": "Blogging Statistics 2026: What 1,042 Content Marketers Told Us About What Works",
      "source_url": "https://www.orbitmedia.com/blog/blogging-statistics/",
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      "verified_on": "2026-10-30",
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    {
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      "sentence": "Bloggers with six or more key strategies were 9.8 times likelier to report strong results than those with one or none in 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Orbit Media Studios data.",
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      "publisher": "Orbit Media Studios",
      "source_title": "Blogging Statistics 2026: What 1,042 Content Marketers Told Us About What Works",
      "source_url": "https://www.orbitmedia.com/blog/blogging-statistics/",
      "source_published": "8 September 2026, accessed 30 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/orbit-media/blogging-survey-2026-2026-10-30.csv",
      "sample": "Orbit Media Studios annual blogger survey, 1,042 content marketers and bloggers in 2026 (24 questions, run every year since 2014). Self-reported answers. Some figures are read from the report's labelled charts.",
      "method": "39% strong results (6 or more strategies, n=36) / 4% (0 or 1 strategy, n=326) = 9.75, rounded to 9.8.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-30",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/blogging-statistics/#stat-blog-calc-strategy-gap"
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      "source_url": "https://www.orbitmedia.com/blog/blogging-statistics/",
      "source_published": "8 September 2026, accessed 30 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/orbit-media/blogging-survey-2026-2026-10-30.csv",
      "sample": "Orbit Media Studios annual blogger survey, 1,042 content marketers and bloggers in 2026 (24 questions, run every year since 2014). Self-reported answers. Some figures are read from the report's labelled charts.",
      "method": "12% (4 strategies) + 8% (5 strategies) + 4% (6 or more) = 24% of respondents. Check by counts: 127 + 87 + 36 = 250 of 1,042 = 24.0%.",
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      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/blogging-statistics/#stat-blog-calc-four-plus"
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      "sentence": "36% of bloggers who collaborated with influencers reported strong results in 2026, according to Orbit Media Studios.",
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      "publisher": "Orbit Media Studios",
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      "sentence": "89% of bloggers promoted their content on social media in 2026, according to Orbit Media Studios.",
      "value": 89,
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      "sentence": "70% of bloggers promoted their content by email in 2026, according to Orbit Media Studios.",
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