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Ads are the lazy way to monetise anything. I love Duolingo's example, where they've built out a translation service on top of their language-learning platform:
by wimagguc 11y ago
Ads are the lazy way to monetise anything. I love Duolingo's example, where they've built out a translation service on top of their language-learning platform: while learning a new language, people contributed to the translations Duolingo could sell to their clients.
I bet they make %% more than by running any amount of ads.
- eva1984 11y agoTalk to Google/Facebook about that. Maybe you think subscription is better way for...search?
- aikah 11y ago> Talk to Google/Facebook about that. Maybe you think subscription is better way for...search? Google gets to crawl all the web for free for its search results. Maybe Google should start paying websites for crawling them hey ? Of course if you crawl google search you're now violating their TOS ... how does google make money again ? Ad networks like Google ( because that's what Google is ) can't have it both ways.
- galfarragem 11y ago>> Ads are a lazy way to monetise anything Ads can be also a way to monetise something that doesn't reach the value threshold where people will pay directly. E.g. Niche blogs sometimes have a lot of visitors (they are providing some value) but not enough to get paid directly. Even patreon most times doesn't work.
- mseebach 11y agoMany interesting niche blogs are essentially job ads for the writers.