How much do we at A'gon influence the industry?

In the "soon to be controlled by today's young people" world, there is a whole new job category called "INFLUENCER"...meaning that if you can get enough hits on your page or site, you can paid, and sometimes paid well for bringing eyeballs.

One of the things that I notice on Agon is that it is more or less the same names, over and over again, that are doing the posting...so, in reality, we don't know the number of site visitors, how long they spend on the site and then how many of them actually post.  Agon probably does know and probably uses this data to try to "market" themselves to various industry types....as they should.

Oh, and back to my first point, when you click on an influencer's page, you are going to see photos and videos...which isn't happening here...so, is Agon influencing the industry?  I suspect that individual companies are influenced when they get extremely good or bad commentary...but the industry as a whole...probably not so much....at least not yet.

I interact with a variety of hi-end OEMs in the course of marketing ClarityCaps. I can’t think of more than one or two who follow Audiogon or other high-end forums, and as far as I can see, they do it only out of general interest. Audiocircle is probably the most interesting venue for manufacturers.

Zero impact.  The few people posting on Agon forums are just talking in an echo chamber.  There is no impact on the industry or even the larger audiophile community.  Most audiophiles I know do not read read Agon.

I say it is significant . Manufacturers seem to end up coming here to comment on negative things written about them . It doesn't take long for word to reach them it seems . Is there a bigger audio forum than here ? I am not aware of anything being bigger . Look at recently the class d audio forum where Mivera audio was active for a few days , it did not take Nord Acoustics long to join Audiogon and reply to Miveras posts . Thats just one example , but it happens pretty frequently . 

Another example I thought of was a couple years ago I attended Rocky Mountain Audio fest . I was talking to the Paradigm Rep about what was being written after the first night of the show on Audiogon . He said he was aware . These companies look to get public opinion and get it from places like Audiogon