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For what it's worth, I really think DeviantArt should have focused much more on the other revenue sources and abandoned display ads. I'm not sure how that would

For what it's worth, I really think DeviantArt should have focused much more on the other revenue sources and abandoned display ads. I'm not sure how that would have turned out but I suspect it might have been good for the company. The sponsorships were far more aligned with the interests of deviantArt's users and I think it was a significant source of revenue that could have been expanded with the right focus and execution. I'm pretty sure that sponsorships amounted to $60k to $150k per deal which usually ran for 1 or 2 weeks with a sponsored art contest, judging and awarding prizes, it wasn't a lot of administrative work for deviantArt AFAIK.

neom 2y ago
For what it's worth, a very very long time ago, when it was just getting going, 500px had me design a go to market for them, that is what I designed.
- 20after4 2y ago
  Interesting!
numpad0 2y ago
Then credit card payment processing/PayPal would have been weaponized earlier, and the result would be the same. It's App Store. Centralized censorship through App Store destroyed the Internet.
- deleted 2y ago
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creer 2y ago
It's still an issue for most publishing on the internet. How to fund it. Advertising is still the obvious, easy way. Not much else comes to that level of available funding. Subscriptions are next - but then again most of them only if you can accept credit cards - same problem again. How does 4chan fund itself?
- krapp 2y ago
  Apparently investment from a Japanese toy company, Good Smile[0,1], and the pockets of its current wealthy owner Hiroyuki Nishimura[2]. [0]https://www.polygon.com/23662953/good-smile-company-4chan-secret-investment https://www.polygon.com/23662953/good-smile-company-4chan-se... [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31553474 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31553474 [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Nishimura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Nishimura
- retox 2y ago
  It has ads and you can pay for a subscription to remove captchas and allow VPN/Tor access (from memory).

neom 2y ago

For what it's worth, a very very long time ago, when it was just getting going, 500px had me design a go to market for them, that is what I designed.

20after4 2y ago
Interesting!

numpad0 2y ago

Then credit card payment processing/PayPal would have been weaponized earlier, and the result would be the same. It's App Store. Centralized censorship through App Store destroyed the Internet.

deleted 2y ago
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creer 2y ago

It's still an issue for most publishing on the internet. How to fund it. Advertising is still the obvious, easy way. Not much else comes to that level of available funding. Subscriptions are next - but then again most of them only if you can accept credit cards - same problem again. How does 4chan fund itself?

krapp 2y ago
Apparently investment from a Japanese toy company, Good Smile[0,1], and the pockets of its current wealthy owner Hiroyuki Nishimura[2]. [0]https://www.polygon.com/23662953/good-smile-company-4chan-secret-investment https://www.polygon.com/23662953/good-smile-company-4chan-se... [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31553474 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31553474 [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Nishimura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Nishimura
retox 2y ago
It has ads and you can pay for a subscription to remove captchas and allow VPN/Tor access (from memory).