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I am not surprised. URL shorteners will try to monetize eventually. One way is to support ad networks, other is to show ads and videos before navigating to the
by tomaszs 6y ago
I am not surprised. URL shorteners will try to monetize eventually. One way is to support ad networks, other is to show ads and videos before navigating to the target URL. I am 100% sure TOS allow it since the beginning.
As far it seems to be a grim future, it is almost only way they can monetize. Otherwise they will close their businesses rendering millions of URLs broken, what I think is the future that is too easy to predict.
- bobdosherman 6y agoCould also cross-subsidize by being a sub-affiliate network as part of an affiliate network. Company earns percentage of affiliate commissions produced by in-network links, which subsidize the non-commissionable out-of-network links (and non-earning in-network links).
- donmcronald 6y ago> As far it seems to be a grim future, it is almost only way they can monetize. Bitly charges $30/month (basic) which seems like an outrageous amount of money to me for what it does. How much more monetization do they need?