87% of Second Life Blogs are about fashion while many niches still exist

I’ve charted our most recent Blogging Second Life statistics and can share that 86.8% focus on Second Life fashion. The total number of blogs in the list are 1,680, and here’s how the chart breaks down:

Long-term readers of this SL Blogger Support may recall seeing similar numbers in March 2015, which showed similar proportions. At that time, nearly 87% of Second Life blogs in our database were about fashion, with 1,308 blogs listed at the time.

Here’s the data as a table:

Category	Counts	n=1,680
1 – Fashion	1458	86.8%
1 – Editorial	49	2.9%
1 – Travel	37	2.2%
1 – Roleplay	30	1.8%
1 – Variety	30	1.8%
1 – Home & Garden	29	1.7%
1 – Arts & Entertainment	19	1.1%
1 – News	12	0.7%
1 – Current Events	7	0.4%
1 – Business	5	0.3%
1 – Directory	4	0.2%

Breaking fashion blogs further down, we now have more Second Life fashion bloggers focusing on women’s clothing than my earlier stats showed:

In our statistics from March, only 66% of fashion blogs were about women’s fashion. Blogs about men’s fashion however have increased in proportion since last March, growing from 8% to 10.5%. Clearly, there are many areas that remain under-represented in the segments above, which may be open to niching.

I thought I’d also share some insight into the proportions of store categories we have in our database (n=1,880):

Clearly, more variability exists in Second Life stores than does in Second Life blogs, with stores that label themselves “apparel” representing 53.2% of the pie. This table is here:

Category	Count	n=1,880
1 – Apparel	1001	53.2%
1 – Avatar Accessories	264	14.0%
1 – Home & Garden	217	11.5%
1 – Avatar Components	209	11.1%
1 – Animations	55	2.9%
1 – Building and Object Components	36	1.9%
1 – Buildings and Other Structures	36	1.9%
1 – Animals	11	0.6%
1 – Complete Avatars	11	0.6%
1 – Gadgets	7	0.4%
1 – Art	6	0.3%
1 – Breedables	6	0.3%
1 – Recreation and Entertainment	6	0.3%
1 – Celebrations	4	0.2%
1 – Gestures	4	0.2%
1 – Scripts	4	0.2%
1 – Weapons	3	0.2%

This data reveals that there may be opportunities to niche in categories where fewer advertising blogs focus, namely: avatar accessories, home & garden, avatar components, animations, and buildings.

Of course, if you have no interest in using your blog to promote Second Life products, there are plenty of niche opportunities still available for those who wish to go into areas other than fashion.

If you’re not yet listed on the Blogging Second Life database, please do so here to be included in this data.

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