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The 25 Most Valuable Blogs

Nicholas Carlson|Feb. 23, 2009, 2:24 PM


Multiplying traffic and CPMs, 24/7 Wall Street came up with a list of the twenty-five most valuable blogs.


This year, 24/7 pegged Gawker Media to the top, figuring Nick Denton's collection of sites are worth $170 million at an 8x operating income valuation.

Nick tells us 24/7 underestimates Gawker's traffic and overestimates its CPMs.

But this is all a game anyway, right?

Here's the rest of the list.
Gawker Properties -- $170 million.
Huffington Post -- $90 million.
The Drudge Report -- $48 million.
Perez Hilton -- $32 million.
Sugar, Inc -- $27 million.
TechCrunch -- $25 million.
MacRumors -- $21 million.
SeekingAlpha -- $11 million.
GigaOm -- $9.5 million.
Politico -- $8.7 million.
SmashingMagazine -- $7.7 million.
SearchEngineLand -- $4.5 million.
Boing Boing -- $3.6 million.
ReadWriteWeb -- $3.4 million.
SB Nation -- $2.7 million.
Destructoid -- $2.5 million.
Mashable -- $2.5 million.
Alley Insider sites -- $2.25 million.
/film -- $2.1 million.
The Superficial Network -- $2 million
Neatorama -- $1.5 million.
Daily Kos -- $2 million.
Talking Points Memo -- $1.2 million.
VentureBeat -- $1 million.
Wowowow.com -- $1 million.