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Another avenue is membership. Gimlet Media is experimenting with this right now: https://gimletmedia.com/join-gimlet/ https://gimletmedia.com/join-gimlet/ Mem
by mijustin 11y ago
Another avenue is membership. Gimlet Media is experimenting with this right now:
https://gimletmedia.com/join-gimlet/ https://gimletmedia.com/join-gimlet/
Members support their company at $5 / month, or $60 / year.
The challenge with all of this, is that no one has been really able to make a lot of money with the donation paradigm.
For example, 5by5, a hugely popular podcast site, has roughly $2,500 / month in donations on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/5by5 https://www.patreon.com/5by5
If you look on https://recurrency.us/discover https://recurrency.us/discover, you can see how much bloggers there are making. Not much.
- ohitsdom 11y agoArstechnica is another good example of membership. If you're a paying member, no ads. Otherwise, ads. Best of both worlds and you give your audience a choice in how to support you.
- radmuzom 11y agoIf you are using ad-blockers, how does it matter if you are a paying member or not? Am I missing something obvious?
- OrwellianChild 11y agoThe obvious bit is this: You are circumventing their revenue model. If you like/want to support their content, this is not an ideal way to show that support. Either turn off the ad-blocker or pay for membership.
- tajen 11y agoHonest, lateral question: Now that I think about it, will DRM prevent the use of ad-blockers on a majority of websites? Could this be a sweepingly major side-effect of DRMs?