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The U.S. digital ad industry is about 140 billion usd. There are about 200 million working age people to divide that over. That means 700 usd per working age pe
by Joeri 10y ago
The U.S. digital ad industry is about 140 billion usd. There are about 200 million working age people to divide that over. That means 700 usd per working age person. Granted, there are many factors that you could use to tweak these numbers up or down (international influence, ad spend roi, ad company margin, wage distribution, ...), but it serves as a ballpark figure.
To get rid of online ads would therefore require either everyone paying something on the order of 700 usd per year, or a lot less ad-funded content.
- makomk 10y agoPresumably everyone is already paying on the order of 700 USD per year, since the money has to come from somewhere and most of it will come out of the sales of the advertised products
- CaptSpify 10y ago> a lot less ad-funded content. I've never understood why this is always seen as such a bad thing. It worked well before, it works well now, and it can work well in the future. I'd even argue that most sites were better before advertisement-based funding became common.