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The twitter exchange reads like a giant Tech Crunch comment. IMVU is making over $1 million per month [1]. While I wouldn't ever use IMVU, hundreds of thousand

The twitter exchange reads like a giant Tech Crunch comment. IMVU is making over $1 million per month [1]. While I wouldn't ever use IMVU, hundreds of thousands of other people do. How many people have created something where they can say that (even if Jeff can with Stackoverflow)? Though I am surprised that they're not profitable. [1] http://gigaom.com/2008/06/24/fresh-look-at-imvu-mini-mmo-with-big-numbers/ http://gigaom.com/2008/06/24/fresh-look-at-imvu-mini-mmo-wit...

electromagnetic 18y ago
They have an amazing rating from the Better Business Bureau, which is quite surprising for an online product, I mean it's probably better than most chain stores. The reason I think IMVU isn't profitable is likely because they have such a high monthly usership and such a comparatively low revenue. I mean for 600,000 monthly viewers (not even repeat views) a blog would bring in amazing profits for relatively low bandwidth usage. However IMVU has high bandwidth usage simply due to its nature, yet it only brings in $1 mil a month. I mean adsense can bring in like $1 easy for 1,000 views, that's easy $600 for 600,000 views. If people are constantly using it, like they do IM's, even just a daily visit from each would be near $20,000 with 100% front page visits from 1 small banner.