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Pokemon Central runs ads (Google AdSense at that!), which is probably how they pay for everything. Google is likely their biggest inbound source of traffic, so
by echelon 5mo ago
Pokemon Central runs ads (Google AdSense at that!), which is probably how they pay for everything.
Google is likely their biggest inbound source of traffic, so they're probably experiencing a marked revenue drop as well.
It's unfortunate that so many livelihoods are subject to the capricious whims of a single company. A company that is increasingly seeking to keep users on their engine without sending eyeballs or revenue to any third parties at all.
We're watching Google's "embrace-extend-extinguish" arc for the web. It's not over by a long shot, but they absolutely intend to finish the job.
- spiderfarmer 5mo agoIt’s why I moved to in-house advertising. It’s a lot of work, but I hope it is the right decision.
- righthand 5mo agoWhy is it a lot of work? Could you specify some off the more difficult effort? Wouldn’t LLMs help speed this up? This is the one area where I’d think Llms could really take Google down by empowering in house ad platforms.
- dylan604 5mo agoDepends on how in-house you want to go. If you go full in-house, you'll need sales staff to make deals with advertisers. You'll then need a way of hosting the media provided. You'll need a way to deal with media that does not match what you've requested. You'll need a system to allocate ad space accordingly to contracts with ad clients. It's like a whole new department in your company.
- spiderfarmer 5mo agoI don’t have a sales staff. I just call a company, tell them why I’m calling and what’s the opportunity, crack some jokes, get serious and make them an offer. It helps that I’m in a niche, thoroughly know the sector and that they most likely already know my websites. As long as I can get to the owner of the company, then I’m golden.
- egypturnash 5mo agoSpiders Georg runs his company from a cave and buys 10,000 spiders every day; he is an outlier and should not be counted.
- vrganj 5mo agoHi EU. How about one of those lovely anti-trust cases?
- skeptic_ai 5mo agoI really hope eu can extinguish Google before they extinguish all websites. Will be an exponential death of website very soon once they lose traffic.
- vrganj 5mo agoI'm worried about the Trump/Tech-Oligarch axis interfering with legal processes in the EU and preventing needed regulation. We should've gotten out of US dependence decades ago.
- pkaye 5mo agoIts better off if ads go away. Just use ad blockers.
- zeitg3ist 5mo agoWe would like the wiki to be free of ads, but hosting costs at our scale are real. Since we don’t like ads either, we compromise like this: users can register for free and never see an ad (they are only served to anonymous visitors); they can also use an ad blocker and we won’t bug them about it.
- rolph 5mo agothere are many laudable places such as yours, most auspiscious, deserving of reparations, alas such favourable anachronisms are unduly burdened . i like to mail a fiver or two to a P.O.B.