Prologue
If you have already read my previous article –“Blog Network Showdown: Weblogs Inc.”, you should understand by now why blog network is so important. Not only as a business model for blog, but also as a data mining hub blog network stand with importance. Blog have so many business models, everyday new model is growing but none is as dominant as blog network. In fact you can say the future of blog business and information platform leys within the blog networks. As I mentioned in last weeks “Blog network showdown”, here in bloggism.net we will cover one top blog network every week. So that the beginners, the readers & entrepreneurs know where blog industry is heading, and how to join the race!

Discussion

This week Blog network showdown’ will be featuring b5media.

B5media who are they?
Those who poke around Daren Rowse’s ProBlogger.net should already have some idea about b5media. B5 media is a blog network housing 159 blogs and over 100 permanent bloggers. Australian blogger Daren Rowse is a Co-Owner of this network.  B5 Media CEO is, Jeremy Wright. Blogs are built on famous WordPress platform, though needless to say a lot customization/modification has been done.

How stable/solid is b5media inc.?
159 blogs on a wide variety of subjects ranging from entertainment and news to technology and sports. With content written by passionate people from all over the world and visited by more than two million unique visitors a month, b5 is among the world’s largest online new media networks. Not only that recently b5media raised US$2million funds from equity financing. Approximate monitory value of the network is $15,131,000. Google backlinks 230,303 and over 10,796,529 MSN search link, what more you need to prove that b5media is a stable and uprising blog entity.

So how can a blogger join b5media Inc.?What are the topics I can write?
Joining b5media is easy, if they have vacancy. They do not accept anymore entrepreneur blogger. If there are vacancy they listed in there site, as announcement and in ProBlogger Jobboard. Usually they fill up their position from existing contributors in their blogs.

How much I can earn with b5media Inc?
Totally depend on the blogging job position, topics and duration. Rumors are they pay few % of the advertising revenue as your cut. As you gain popularity this % can be up. I guess it’s totally upon the agreement you can get into with b5media.