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Quite a few people have never heard of Drupal. That's ok, though, because chances are good that if they browse websites on a daily basis, they're probably visiting a Drupal site every day. There are probably hundreds of NZ-based Drupal sites (Egressive is responsible for at least 50 of them), but here are some you might've heard of or used...

High profile Drupal sites in NZ

• Sorted.org.nz (Retirement Commission)
• The Nat'l Business Review
• The Otago Daily Times
• NZ Biosecurity
• NZ History
• The Foundation for Arable Research
• The NZ Bio-protection Research Centre
• The NZ Green Party
• The NZ Labour Party
• The NZ ACT Party
• The Beehive (NZ's parliament website)
• The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA)

Other noteworthy Drupal stories from abroad

• The Whitehouse uses Drupal - see Drupal founder Dries Buytaert's blog entry and TechPresident post (TechPresident also a Drupal site).
• Foreign Affairs uses Drupal
• The BBC uses Drupal
• The Fiancial Times uses Drupal
• Ubuntu and Canonical use Drupal
• Die Zeit (major German newspaper) uses Drupal
• Die Welt (another major German newspaper) uses Drupal
• The Cable News Network (CNN) uses Drupal
• Amnesty International uses Drupal
• Greenpeace uses Drupal
• The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) uses Drupal
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation(NATO) uses Drupal
• The United Nations uses Drupal
• IBM recommends Drupal
• Popular Science tears out Vignette and replaced it with Drupal
• Fast Company uses Drupal
• America Online (AOL) uses Drupal
• Sun Microsystems uses Drupal (here, too)
• Novell uses Drupal
• Yahoo! uses Drupal
• Harvard University uses Drupal
• In fact, many universities use Drupal
• Fedex uses Drupal
• Nike uses Drupal
• Forbes uses Drupal
• Warner Bros uses Drupal
• 20th Century Fox uses Drupal
• MacWorld uses Drupal
• Adobe uses Drupal (here too)
• Java.net uses Drupal
• RackSpace (major web hosting provider) uses Drupal
• New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg uses Drupal
• Former first lady and (unsuccessful) contender for the US Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton uses Drupal

And if you're more worried about popularity than prestige, these guys all use Drupal, too:

• The NZ Brewers Guild
• MTV uk
• Sony Music
• Universal Music
• Led Zeppelin
• Electronic Arts (Game producer)
• Metallica
• REM
• Pink
• Rock Band (XBox game)
• Avril Lavigne
• J-Lo
• Britney Spears
• Tori Amos
• The Grateful Dead
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Heck, Playboy (Germany) uses it
• Even Barbie® manufacturer Mattel use Drupal

Some Google Trends insights into Drupal, and some other interesting statistics.