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> he never made much money from You believe that? Dude banked on both the sale and takeover, plus the ad revenue when he was running the site. He had no alte
by brador 11y ago
> he never made much money from
You believe that? Dude banked on both the sale and takeover, plus the ad revenue when he was running the site.
He had no alternative but to push the poverty myth (Kevin Rose@Digg also did this). Can you imagine what the users would do if he disclosed how much he was raking in?
My guess? $10 million n/w post sale, most likely much more.
- Karunamon 11y agoWhat ad revenue? 4chan has always had a huge problem attracting advertisers due to the ahem nature of its content. I could imagine that he made some serious bank on the sale, but the site has always has run at a net loss.
- brador 11y ago> 4chan has always had a huge problem attracting advertisers due to the ahem nature of its content According to who? Remember how cheap the site is to run. It's like the Pirate Bay guys saying they made no money. Those ads paid big and they raked.
- Karunamon 11y agoAccording to the guy who ran the site. If you think he's lying about that, please put forth some evidence.
- brador 11y ago> According to the guy who ran the site. Do you see the problem?
- Karunamon 11y agoOkay, so considering that 4chan didn't accept donations, didn't have any form of user-generated revenue until the (very recent) 4chan pass thing, Poole has always maintained that the site was a money loser. Also, cheap to run? The bandwidth costs alone would be HUGE. Not sure why you think he has a motive to lie about this - and if he does, again, put forth some evidence rather than spurious accusations. Calling the guy a liar with no proof to the contrary is just so much cheap sniping.
- brador 11y agoYou conveniently missed ad revenue. 4chan has around 650m pageviews a month. At $0.25/1000 that's a few million a year. And I didn't say he was lying, I said I don't believe him.
- rdl 11y agoNo way $1 CPM for 4chan.
- nemothekid 11y ago4Chan's self serve ads are priced at a quarter of that, ~.25c CPM currently, and the inventory is never completely sold.
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- Cakez0r 11y ago> Can you imagine what the users would do if he disclosed how much he was raking in? Probably nothing worse than they've already done
- pervycreeper 11y ago>My guess? $10 million n/w post sale, most likely much more. Any particular reasoning behind that guess?
- brador 11y agoHe was sole founder, but allegedly had shadow investors. Sale/takeover - Similar sites that sold, Reddit, myspace ($35m), Digg. 4chans value to particular buyers, potential with a pivot/reculture. It's a smoking hot site for PR if you can fool/fake the users, and right now it's election time. What would you say 4chan is maximally worth to the buyer who can extract the most value from it? I can see someone dropping $40-$50m.