Hey everyone,

if you have access to your confluence database, you can get a list of blog watchers with this query:

SELECT
  s.SPACEKEY AS 'Space',
  COUNT(u.username) AS 'Count',
  GROUP_CONCAT(u.username ORDER BY u.username) AS 'Watchers'
FROM NOTIFICATIONS AS n
LEFT JOIN SPACES AS s ON n.SPACEID = s.SPACEID
LEFT JOIN user_mapping AS u ON n.USERNAME = u.user_key
WHERE n.CONTENTTYPE = 'blogpost'
AND s.SPACEKEY = 'YOUR-SPACEKEY-HERE'
GROUP BY s.SPACEKEY;

Credit goes to Radek Janata

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Watcher-List-for-a-Blog/qaq-p/93065#M87725

Hello,

Better Blogs for Confluence is a paid add-on that allows Space Administrators to subscribe users and groups to email notifications of new blogs in a space. For more detail see Better Blogs leads to better understanding.

We've received feedback from several evaluators that the pricing is too high. Today we're responding by changing pricing to 5% of the Confluence license fee. If you've been holding off due to the pricing we welcome you to try Better Blogs today.

If you have any questions feel free to reach out via nick@arijea.com or +1 415 568 7064.

Regards,
Nicholas Muldoon
Arijea

G'day Folks,

For those watching this issue or stumbling across it for the first time I welcome you to try Better Blogs for Confluence.

Better Blogs for Confluence is a paid add-on that allows Space Administrators to subscribe users and groups to email notifications of new blogs in a space. So, more than just seeing who is watching the blog of a space it allows you to make sure they are watching the blog of a space.

At Twitter we needed this feature to ensure every member of our product, design and engineering organisation (>1,500 people) were notified of new blog posts in the Engineering space. The Engineering Blog enabled VP's to communicate one-to-many and teams to share details of the technology and features they were working on. It didn't make sense to ask every new employee to subscribe to the blog in that space, hence Better Blogs was born.

With Better Blogs you can keep everyone informed, and do so with ease. For those wishing to take advantage of early bird pricing use the promotion code HHYUWD before the end of October 2015.

If you have feedback on the Better Blogs for Confluence add-on contact me via nick@arijea.com or +1 415 568 7064.

Regards,
Nicholas Muldoon
Arijea

I found a workaround but it is awesome and took me hours of work. I used the SU Confluence Plugin where you can switch to certain users and then i subscribed them manually - ONE by ONE

But it's the only way to make sure, that everyone is on the mailing list for our communication.

Agreed. I would like to use this as a way to communicate to my larger team but I have no way of knowing who actually received the information. I've asked everyone to add themselves as a Watcher but I can't confirm.

It's essential for corporate communication. It would be the same feature as for manage watchers for pages and single blog posts.

I strongly support this feature. It would be awesome to be able to get a list, count how many people are watching a blog post/news stream.