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How is Imgur making money ?

• sumedh 10y ago
  Ads, they are making good money from the ads that they removed paid plans and gave all the features to everyone.
  • nerdponx 10y ago
    Keep in mind that also have a superior product to just about every image host that came before them (other than Flickr), they are the de-facto favored image host for Reddit, and to top it off have their own social networking features with non-trivial market adoption. With that many eyeballs on your site it's no surprise that even their subtle advertising style [1] is profitable. I'd personally much rather see sponsored posts everywhere than pandering direct marketing and spying/tracking. [1]: http://www.imgurads.com/ http://www.imgurads.com/
    • zimpenfish 10y ago
      > they are the de-facto favored image host for Reddit Not any more - https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/25/reddit-image-uploads/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/25/reddit-image-uploads/
      • StRoy 10y ago
        > Not any more Actually that is still the case. He said "de facto" not "official". Imgur still represents the majority of image links on most subreddits. https://www.reddit.com/domain/i.imgur.com/ https://www.reddit.com/domain/i.imgur.com/ r/all shows more imgur links than i.reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/all/ https://www.reddit.com/r/all/ Your article dates from half a year ago and they still couldn't snuff imgur out with built-in upload facilities, suffice to say, as far as the users are concerned, imgur is the defacto beloved service. People on twitter are more likely to use twitter's img upload than redditors are to use their own.