T-shirt chart for December 2008

The last OMG teeco chart of the year, and an interesting one. We deliberately kept it back a couple of days so we’d catch all the blogging about Black Friday sales - and BOY did it make a difference. Threadless off the top spot and 20 new entries in the top 50. There are about 100 extra teecos covered by the full chart this month - which is amazing (well, I think it’s pretty amazing!). Well done to Linty Fresh - obviously working the PR magic with the highest new entry!

As a reminder, this chart monitors all the tshirt blogs and watches which sites they link to from their homepage posts.

For the data geeks out there mintelligence made one change to the chart algorithm for us this month - removing more paid / affiliate / streetteam style links from the counts. This hit Threadless pretty hard - as they appear in most blogger sidebars with a streetteam tag. But I think this makes for a more interesting chart, actually reflecting the coverage new tees get, rather than the baseline popularity of a site.

I’d love to know if you have a gut feel that a teeco got more coverage than is apparent from the chart - so I can better check the results.

December 2, 2008 | Filed Under geek, shirt sites

Comments

12 Responses to “T-shirt chart for December 2008”

CHOP SHOP on December 2nd, 2008 9:07 am

i am jabber-ghasted. #12, my parents will be so proud.
Threadless Blog on December 2nd, 2008 1:37 pm

Threadless rocks not matter what those chart says
Thanks for posting this, it would be helpful for some reasons to me
Go Ape Shirts on December 2nd, 2008 4:29 pm

Oh no, I’m slipping! Better get my things together for next month’s chart.
Joe Wasserman on December 2nd, 2008 5:14 pm

La Fraise looks too high to me… are you including the La Fraise blog, or something?
Andy on December 2nd, 2008 5:20 pm

Good work again Steve.
Steve OMG on December 3rd, 2008 2:55 am

@Joe - I’ve double checked with the data and the la fraise count seems to be genuine. I think the continual stream of new designs and the big sales they’ve been running have really gotten them a lot of coverage. Also - the 15000 euro competition got pretty good coverage.
alfonso on December 6th, 2008 7:10 am

Woop!
Proud to be on there…number 38 - thank you people.

where can we find links to previous months listings?

Peace

Alf
Jonathan Kruse on December 8th, 2008 7:14 am

Wow I’m number 5 that’s amazing. How did I beat Linty Fresh? I hear that guy lives in a house made of shirts and all he does all day is work on his company and plan global domination.
tyler on December 8th, 2008 9:14 am

congrats everyone!
Philipp on December 8th, 2008 9:42 am

Hey Guys, this is Philipp of A better tomorrow. We are excited to see that we moved up so much. (from 34 to a whopping

Steve, we would be happy to learn more on how you calculate this rank and what you monitor, because except for a shirt of a day feature on emptees and a bit of new coverage on cool shirtblogs we have no fu**ing clue where this comes from :-)…so for a german speaking only site at the moment, we love to see it but are also worried that you might want to check this again.

Merry Christmas greetings Philipp
Amorphia on December 9th, 2008 11:25 pm

W00t! Three projects in the top 50, I guess this means I’m an actual tee-smith now =)
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