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"But six months later, the fickle followers of Web fads have collectively hit the "next" button. Since peaking in usership in the spring and early summer, Chatr
by citricsquid 16y ago
"But six months later, the fickle followers of Web fads have collectively hit the "next" button.
Since peaking in usership in the spring and early summer, Chatroulette has been hemorrhaging traffic, with visits plummeting close to 60% in the US, according to Quantcast."
I knew this would happen, it seems everyone but he did. Is this a case of wishful thinking, or being blinded by how great he thinks his own product is? Also, the idea that they're making so much money off redirecting the people showing their genitals sounds very... unlikely. Surely these people aren't the sort who would, after being kicked from chat-roulette, go on to sign up for a dating site?
- greyman 16y agoYes it is hard to believe, but if it is true that he is making $100,000 per month, then he was right not to sell it, wasn't he? The site still has a good traffic and a lot of potential.
- jules 16y ago50,000 naked men/day is about 1,500,000 naked men per month, so $100,000 would be less than 7 cents per naked man. As this is highly targeted traffic, that does not sound completely unreasonable.
- danielh 16y agoKeep in mind that 50k uniques/day doesn't translate into 30x50k uniques/months. There are probably some repeat visitors. Otherwise the world would at some point run of naked men. Still, it's a non-trivial amount of highly targeted traffic.
- danielh 16y agoI think he sees that himself now: I think I would accept the offers now, because I'm much more educated about it. Regarding the money: The article mentions redirecting these users to FriendFinder.com, that should probably read AdultFriendFinder.com. I find it highly plausible that this kind of traffic has a very good conversion rate on an adult dating site.
- Straubiz 16y agoIf the 500 000 visits / day number is true, Chatroulette still has pretty big user base. they can "restart" from there
- josefresco 16y agoI initially thought they were directing the feeds of the naked men to adult websites. In a way supplying the 'content' for adult networks. If they took that approach, they could keep the naked men and not 'punish' them by sending them away. The naked men still think they're publishing their genitals on the Chatroulette network but in fact it's really being piped to an adult webcam site where paid subscribers watch and rate them. Doubt any adult company would pay that much for naked men though, I don't think the rates for naked dude talent are competitive. You would think after a while the naked men revenue would tail off as more and more are kicked off.