Drones are Big News: We’re Growing. A Lot. (Thanks!)

Drones are big news these days.  Investment in drone companies is booming.  The commercial drone market is exploding.  And thanks to all of you, DRONELIFE is growing too.

DRONELIFE reached a record-high audience for 2017, with over 1.5 million web-based readers worldwide.  Our social media audience continues to grow, with the Facebook audience topping 108,000 for a greater than 100% growth rate. The Twitter audience reached over 34,000 readers, growing at more than 82% for the year.

“We’re happy that our readership has continued to grow as the industry has matured, and that that the trend has continued into 2018,” said Harry McNabb, CEO of DroneLife.com.

“We previously announced that we grew significantly in 2016 and it is nice to see that this is carrying over into 2017 and 2018.” continued McNabb. “In terms of breakdown, while most of our readers are from the US, we have large and growing audiences in Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world. We’ve also a Google News site, with large and growing subscription lists of drone influencers worldwide for each of our three properties, DroneLife, Jobfordrones, and DroneRacingLife.”

“We’re now reaching the scale and scope where companies that are not directly in the drone space, but have intersecting audiences, are showing interest in partnering with our sites,” said Mr. McNabb.

DRONELIFE published its first posts in 2013.  Since then, we’ve grown to an international staff of writers and a broad customer list for DRONELIFE’s advertising, branding and consulting services.  We’re still working to provide a balanced and rational view of current industry issues, new technologies, and new businesses – and as we grow, we’ll be able to provide even better content for our audience.  Thanks for being one of our dedicated readers, and helping us to grow with the industry.