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It's refreshing to see a company looking for a more creative way to generate revenue than simply slapping advertising on as an afterthought. The idea of using
by jasongullickson 17y ago
It's refreshing to see a company looking for a more creative way to generate revenue than simply slapping advertising on as an afterthought.
The idea of using this data to build a news site is brilliant, and adds to the usefulness and quality of the service instead of detracting from it or adding complexity. Bravo.
- icey 17y agoIf bit.ly can make this work, I think it's an amazing idea. I already want to see the site he's talking about.
- axod 17y agoIt's genius! Instead of slapping advertising on, you build a news site. Hmm wait a minute, how does the news site make money again?
- brandnewlow 17y agoYeah, seriously. How do they make money? Selling the news back to other sites?
- axod 17y agoI think next they make a widget so you can tweet about the news.
- brandnewlow 17y agoWhich makes money....how? At some point, they have to ask people for money. if they're not going to ask users for money, then they're just going to be another B2B business whose job is to sell stuff to other businesses, advertising or not.
- ryoshu 17y agoThey make money by aggregating the activity and doing real-time and historical analysis. People will pay very good money for those things, especially with the size of the datasets bit.ly has at its disposal.
- brandnewlow 17y agoCool. That makes sense. They're going to sell aggregate data. Sign me up... Then why do they need a news site? Is it just a big marketing tool for their data sales business?
- axod 17y ago>> "People will pay very good money for those things, especially with the size of the datasets bit.ly has at its disposal." Who? Why will they pay good money for it? How do they get a ROI?
- andrewbadera 17y agoMarketers, mostly. Researchers, a little bit.