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I've been making a living out of advertising income for 10 years. I think if anything it's easier now to make money out of advertising. Back in the day you didn

• jacquesm 16y ago
  I've been earning money from advertising for a decade as well (actually, 12 years to be more precise) and the landscape has changed quite a bit. Making money once you have your community set up is only part of the problem, getting a working community off the ground is the hard part. When adsense/adwords did not exist CPMs were much higher than they are today and such a venture would have been easier to get to profitability then it is because of that. Some costs (notably bandwidth) have declined, but simply slapping a forum on a server and calling it a day is not going to cut it. It will take a good bit of time to get people to re-visit your niche community on a daily basis. And there are already to many fish-tank forums that you'd be competing for a fairly small slice of the cake.