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Are you a burlesque artist looking to promote yourself? Or someone selling burlesque-related merchandise or promoting burlesque events? Do you want to find out more about burlesque’s popularity, market and where to advertise? Or are you just a burlesque fan wanting to find more content and videos? Whatever your interest in burlesque -this article will help you.
If you’re a burlesque-enthusiast, it will let you know where you can find more interesting burlesque content online -as well as other burlesque fans. If you’re selling burlesque products online -(such as DVD’s or costumes)- it will help you know which countries have the most interest in burlesque (and so which are more likely to buy). It will also guide you to popular web pages on which you can advertise products. If you’re a passionate performer, or viewer of burlesque, this article will help you learn where there are thriving burlesque communities and where you can promote yourself or tour. This article will tell you the most visited burlesque pages on facebook, how global interest in burlesque is divided (by countries) and much more. It will also suggesting new research methods to acquire even more useful data! Few people like data but most people like pursuing their interests and achieving their aims and dreams. The data in this article helps you to do that! I’ve done the research so you don’t have to. Soon you’ll know where to go to find buyers, audience members, like-minded individuals and/or great content, merchandise and shows..!
Let’s start with the basics. The name ‘Burlesque’ has a web popularity of 40,700,000 pages. More specifically it has a:
- Facebook presence of 1,130,000 pages.
- Google+ presence of 10,500 pages.
- Linkedin presence of 19,100 pages.
- Twitter presence of 110,000 pages.
(Statistics taken from http://www.name-list.net/facebook/surname/Burlesque ). Don’t like figures? I’ve created an original infographic especially for those of you who prefer visuals…the infographic shows the percentages associated with each type of web presence…
Originally-created infographic -Burlesque on the web:
(The infographic also viewable on my burlesque pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/burlespression/original-infographic-pictures/ ).
So we’ve established that Facebook has the largest burlesque web presence. I think you’ll agree that it therefore makes sense to focus on burlesque and Facebook, (rather than burlesque and LinkedIn, Google+ or Twitter) during this article. The most obvious question that springs to my mind is…
What is the most popular burlesque Facebook page?
Personally, I thought it would probably be a fan page for the film ‘Burlesque‘. It’s not.
Hmm -any thoughts?
Well I wouldn’t have guessed it so I won’t tease you any longer -the most popular Burlesque Facebook page is the Facebook page of 21st Century Burlesque -it’s called ‘Burlesque Online’ and here’s the link to it:
https://www.facebook.com/BurlesqueOnline?fref=ts
It’s the facebook page for ’21st Century Burlesque Magazine’ and the website link for this magazine is:
http://21stCenturyBurlesque.com/
(Photography / copyright: 21st Century Burlesque).
Whilst the Facebook page is updated regularly and definitely worth checking out and subscribing to -there’s not a huge amount on the website. The website does however have a useful burlesque festival website link (I’ll pass it on here to save you the cyber trip –www.burlesquefest.com ) and they occasionally print an annual magazine version as well as listing yearly results for the ‘Burlesque Top Fifty’. The Top Fifty competition sounds fun and is a great way of supporting your favourite burlesque artists. Here’s how they describe it…
“Every year, thousands of people all over the world nominate the people who they feel have made the biggest contribution to burlesque during the year by inspiring, achieving, educating, documenting, pioneering, entertaining, innovating, producing, leading or creating. It is a light-hearted, celebratory poll which brings the global burlesque community together for a bit of fun and to share our achievements at the end of each year. You can nominate people from now until midnight GMT on December 25th, and the results will be announced at New Year” (http://21stcenturyburlesque.com/the-burlesque-top-50-2013/ )”.
Anyway -back to ‘Burlesque Online‘ -the most popular burlesque Facebook page. Latest figures (March 2014) show that it has 121,935 fans and 1,497 people talking about it. (Statistics are taken from: http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-pages/258987521128-burlesque). If you’re one of the people who want to advertise (something burlesque-related) online -you probably want more detail. Don’t worry -I won’t let you down… most of it’s fans are from the United States (38,213 fans forming 31.3% of the fan base), followed by Italy (15,714 forming 12.9%), the United Kingdom (12,361 forming 10.1%), Germany (6,183 forming 5.1%) and Brazil (4,777 forming 3.9%). Other, and not yet targeted countries, have a total of 44,687 fans and account for 36.6% of the fan base.
These figures are not, however, static and the popularity of the ‘Burlesque Online’ facebook page is growing steadily so the figures will probably have changed slightly by the time you read this. You can check out any new, updated statistics here:
http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-pages/258987521128-burlesque
Perhaps you’ll also join their fan base (and, no, I’m not involved in promoting them in any way and only discovered them myself)! Their growing number of global fans is clearly shown in the graph below (figures from Feb 12th and March 13th 2014)…
2014 Global Statistics -Fan Numbers –‘Burlesque Online’:
(Taken from http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-pages/258987521128-burlesque).
“Ok so we know about fan numbers”, I hear you say, “but how many people are actually talking about, or talking on, the site”? The graph below shows the number of people who were talking about, or talking on, ‘Burlesque Online’ from 11th February 2014-11th March 2014 (one month)…
People talking about, or talking on, ‘Burlesque Online’ 11/2/14-11/3/14:
This not only gives an general idea, and visual representation, of the approximate numbers of people talking about, or on, the website but also shows how much variation there can be during different days and weeks.
Other top Facebook burlesque pages:
So that’s ‘Burlesque Online’ pretty much covered but what about other popular Facebook burlesque pages? Below is a list of other pages that you might want to check out…
Facebook burlesque sites in order of popularity (fan numbers from 12/3/14):
Name of Facebook site: Fan numbers:
- Burlesque Online (above) 121,935 fans
- Paris Burlesque Festival 17,742
- Burlesque Bar 12, 527
- Burlesque Baby 10,885
- Burlesque (Brazil -the film) 7,886
- Lady Burlesque 7,206
- Burlesque~<3 7,019
- Fetish Burlesque 6,621
- Burlesque Dolls Australis 5,654
- Burlesque 5,055
To save you time, I’ve included the facebook web addresses of these sites in the same order here (clicking on a link will open the website in a new window):
- Burlesque Online https://www.facebook.com/BurlesqueOnline
- Paris Burlesque Festival https://www.facebook.com/PARISBURLESQUEFESTIVAL
- Burlesque Bar https://www.facebook.com/melbourneburlesque
- Burlesque Baby https://www.facebook.com/burlesqueshop
- Burlesque (Brazil) https://www.facebook.com/BurlesqueBR
- Lady Burlesque https://www.facebook.com/LadyBurlesque
- Burlesque~<3 https://www.facebook.com/pages/-Burlesque3/248759228938
- Fetish Burlesque https://www.facebook.com/pages/fetish-burlesque/280151537680
- Burlesque Dolls Australia http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-pages/245577315459549-burlesque-dolls-australia
- Burlesque https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burlesque/30005252902
Extra bonus fact:
The individual burlesque artist with the most fans is perhaps predictable -it’s the exciting, charming Dita Von Teese -she has 1.5 million fans! The link for the page is:
https://www.facebook.com/DitaVonTeese?fref=ts&rf=110533515641392
Here’s a ‘take-a-break’ photo of Miss Von Tease before we continue with the rest of my findings!
Global interest in burlesque on the internet:
Ok so we’ve been getting quite specific -let’s now zoom out and take a global perspective. Let’s look at how global interest in burlesque on the internet is divided. Do you remember me mentioning earlier that there are 40,700,000 web pages associated with the name ‘burlesque’? The following pie chart shows you the countries associated with this web popularity…
Global interest in burlesque on the internet -divided by country:
(Taken from http://www.name-list.net/facebook/surname/Burlesque ).
Analysis, comparisons and challenge!
Now for the second memory test -do you remember any of the results when we looked at the proportional representation of countries’ interest in the ‘Burlesque Online’ Facebook page? If you do, you’ll recall that Italy, the UK, Germany and Brazil took second, third, fourth and fifth places. To compare – those countries don’t even feature on this global pie chart. The USA does -however not as predominantly as before (when it came first in the list of countries most interested in the ‘Burlesque Online’ Facebook page).
In contrast, globally, Russia demonstrates the most interest in ‘burlesque’ across the web -followed by a fairly equal interest between Australia, Spain and the USA (other countries form a mere slither).
So what are the popular Russian burlesque Facebook pages or websites? I’ll leave that to you to find out. I searched english-speaking sites, and data sites, for the word ‘burlesque’ but the word could be translated into many other languages to bring up interesting new data results and reveal new trends. If you sell burlesque-related products online -it’s worth doing some more research in order to uncover more market trends.
Even if you’re not selling anything this information could be of use -after all burlesque videos can be watched and understood whatever language you speak so you could still promote yourself as a burlesque artist, or watch new content, by experimenting with entering different languages’ version of the word ‘burlesque’ into google. Also try different countries’ versions of google so, for example, instead of google.com or google.co.uk you could try google.ru for content associated with Russia. Also don’t forget google translate which may prove very useful… https://translate.google.com/
Here are a few translations of the word ‘burlesque’ to get you started:
Russian: бурлеск
Spanish: burlesco
German: burleske
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The more information we can collect -the easier it will be for everyone viewing this article to achieve their burlesque aims! By knowing the most visited burlesque pages on facebook, you now know of a great places to advertise yourself and your products but let’s all find out more and let’s all do a ‘reveal’ below! 😉
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