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Millions? Doubt many of the users of the application care about ads, so unless they charge for impressions...
by thirsteh 14y ago
Millions? Doubt many of the users of the application care about ads, so unless they charge for impressions...
- rabidsnail 14y agoThey're probably running display ads, which are traditionally CPM.
- benologist 14y agoAds obviously work or TPB wouldn't fill their billions of pageviews a month with multiple units.
- sp332 14y ago... usually of the crappiest, lowest-paying ads. A lot of businesses don't want to be associated with TPB or some of the content on there so sometimes they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
- benologist 14y agoSurfTheChannel was rumored to make around $2000/day off just 400,000 daily visitors at its peak - TPB probably hasn't had traffic that low in years. http://torrentfreak.com/surfthechannel-owner-found-guilty-of-conspiracy-to-defraud-120627/ http://torrentfreak.com/surfthechannel-owner-found-guilty-of...
- sp332 14y agoEstimates vary wildly from $100,000/year to $1.4 million/year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay#Funding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay#Funding That's about $270/day to $3,800/day, although some of that is private funding as well as advertising.
- benologist 14y agoThat $100k is from 6 years ago .. so 6 years ago their lawyers admitted the site made (at least) $270/day and today it does probably at least one order of magnitude more traffic.
- dguido 14y agoThey didn't say the currency they're using. It's millions because it's all in Facebook dollars (effectively ~$5 USD total).
- autodidakto 14y agoMust be FB dollars if they can't manage to keep the lights on with 15-20 mil