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I don't imagine it was easy to monetize most of the content they were hosting.
by VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
I don't imagine it was easy to monetize most of the content they were hosting.
- AliceWong 5y agoLife insurance ads perhaps.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- arthurcolle 5y agoProbably super easy to monetize. The world isn't just Google Ad{Word/Sense} and Facebook Ads
- timClicks 5y agoBut that's the very large majority...
- irjustin 5y agoAbsolutely not. So much of their content goes against the TOS of the major advertisers that no one wants to work with them.
- pentae 5y agoTheres literally a million sketchy ad companies out there that would be happy to buy that traffic
- MattGaiser 5y agoWho would want to serve ads on Liveleak beyond the sketchy penis enlargement people?
- ummonk 5y agoSafety device manufacturers (whether for OSHA type safety or crime safety) would actually have been a good industry for this.
- weird-eye-issue 5y agoIf it is super easy then can you list what advertiser networks or affiliate networks they should use? Also it's not like somebody going to watch a Liveleak video has any commercial intent so the ad RPMs will be really low
- Scoundreller 5y agoBut if your content is free and you don't really moderate, what's hosting cost? Just gotta appeal to your clientele and your advertising will be successful. Maybe I should white-label purchase some beef jerky and just advertise on sites like this.
- PurpleFoxy 5y agoThey do moderate it though. They have spent a fair bit of time removing certain shooting videos.
- daveevad 5y agoOh, so what do you do? I run a Beef Jerky as a Service thing but really it's just a lever against inefficient ads networks' partner's policies.
- SCUSKU 5y agoThis may be absolutely the most niche joke I've ever read in my life, and I am absolutely loving every word of it!
- tyingq 5y agoHosting video with lots of views probably isn't cheap.
- deelowe 5y agoThere is plenty of content they can't host and I'm sure tons of people were anxious to find examples they could use to take the site down with. Powerful governments aren't exactly too keen on the populous getting a real perspective of what war is like. Also, bandwidth and power isn't cheap. They have to pay for it somehow.
- U8dcN7vx 5y agoHosting can cost quite a lot, these days usually due to data transfer but storage and compute can certainly pile up.