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At the very least, he was upfront about it.
by mchiang 13y ago
At the very least, he was upfront about it.
- Anechoic 13y agoDF regularly makes an end-of-week post thanking the RSS feed sponsors, it's part of the sponsership package: http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/ http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/ see: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/30/ http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/30/ http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/22/ http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/22/ http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/09/ http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/09/ etc
- baby 13y ago8500$/week. Just with his blog. It's just crazy. I don't think there is another blog out there that earns even half of what Gruber is here. I just can't understand that.
- mehrzad 13y agoOne of the few cool things of the Mac/iOS community is how active everyone is. iOS users download/buy/actually use apps even if they're niche. Readers of marco.org and daringfireball pay attention to these sponsorship posts, I'd assume.
- kerbs 13y agoApple dev/Mac fanboy. I can affirm we eat up the stuff he promotes. Dark Sky, Pixelmator, Fantasical. I heard them all first on DF and bought each (and more). He's usually spot on in the things he promotes to (I don't think he accepts sponsors for products he doesn't think are great). Paying for ads on his site I believe are totally worth it.
- podperson 13y agoAs a long time DF reader, I treat Gruber's software endorsements with more than a grain of salt (even his apparently unsponsored ones). I can't remember the name of the product, but one Ui editing program he endorsed was unbelievably bad.
- mikestew 13y agoYeah, same here, from someone who's a fan otherwise. He's had some dogs, but the one that stood out to me was some weather app (not Dark Sky, which is excellent) a year or so ago. It was pretty, which I image is what caught his eye. Too bad it was crap for predicting the weather, or even getting the local temperature right for that matter. I really wondered if he ever used it for its intended purpose.
- EGreg 13y agoWait, how is he able to make $8500 a week from the blog? And how do you know that? Wait, he has paid membership too? Membership in what? His blog?
- matwood 13y agoSponsorships are listed on the site along with pricing: http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/ http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/
- citricsquid 13y agoHe has a huge following, he is considered one of the more important voices by a large number of people and he's been around for a relatively long time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daring_Fireball http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daring_Fireball. People trust him, which gives him commercial value.
- EGreg 13y agoBut the site hardly has any articles published, just mostly links, and what is the membership for?
- tricolon 13y agoHere are the articles: http://daringfireball.net/archive/ http://daringfireball.net/archive/
- statictype 13y agoHis blog's crowning achievement may have been when Steve Jobs replied to a controversy by just telling the journalist to read the article on Daring Fireball.
- samg 13y agoHe makes more than $8500 a week. That's just for the post sponsorship. He also makes money from the Deck network ad on the side.
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- GHFigs 13y agoIt might be more helpful for this audience to think of it as "just with ten years of work".
- patio11 13y agoI know a little birdie or three who would have interesting comments to make on that figure but they wouldn't appreciate the publicity. All of them run real honest-to-God businesses which just happen to resemble a blog in form-factor when you squint a bit. Incidentally: blogging is still a terrible way to make money for the vast majority of bloggers. The really successful ones generally use it as a friendcatcher for related business. It isn't even the most efficient friendcatcher, either.