04-06-2016, 10:40 PM
Late to the thread... I will state I do use adblock (abp + ghostery combo) as standard on my personal computers, but on my work ones ads get through. If I load the front page on my work laptop (can't remember exact CPU, it is a dual core Broadwell with HT) with all ads showing I hear the fan spin up and CPU usage goes to 30%. Close the page, it goes away. So I'm in the group "I'm not against advertising, but I'm against intrusive advertising", and my threshold of what counts as intrusive might vary from others.
Where does that leave ad supported sites that I visit? I've not come across any site yet which I think I'd want to use enough to go through a paywall. I have done one-off donations to some sites before, but dislike that paypal seems to be the only option as IMO their fees are disproportionate compared to the rest of the banking world. I do shop using Amazon affiliate links where available. On that note, is there one still here? It has been a while since I used it, and in a quick look I can't find it again. Or has it been adblocked?
I'm about to enter the other side of the argument myself. I'm looking to start a youtube channel, with exact content direction to be decided. My other interest is computer hardware, and I've two directions to go at the same time. 1 is really deep analysis of impact of parameters in various use cases, where I've been benchmarking ram influence for many weeks already and I'm probably not even half way there. The other is the sillier side. I can't afford to break stuff for fun, but some of it will be higher risk involving watercooling, but not as you know it. I will try enabling built in youtube ads with a long term view this might provide supplemental income leading to a longer term ability to cut down my day job. However... I do recognise the chances of success are not high given the vast quantities of others already doing similar, and video work is taking considerably more work than expected for a decent production quality. Content quality also needs a lot of work before I even publish my 1st.
As there are lots of people doing that already, I can look at the more successful ones, and see how they generate their income. Now, I don't know many regular visitors photozone gets, but it looks like on youtube you've really made it once you reach about 100k subscriber level. At least, that's my definition of success. They use every trick and then some, which I admit can work with video but not necessarily photozone style content. They get sponsors, integrate ads into the videos, various premium accounts with some benefit over free ones, merchandising, affiliate links to pretty much anything that will take one. That's on top of the separate ad networks. The other difference is most of those regularly produce a lot of content. It's like people lose interest if the pace goes too low.
Could any of that be applied here? How about "Photozone TV" with say a weekly review of what's happening in the photography world? I haven't checked if there are other channels doing something like that. Photography news is slower though so maybe weekly would be a challenge outside of the major events.
Where does that leave ad supported sites that I visit? I've not come across any site yet which I think I'd want to use enough to go through a paywall. I have done one-off donations to some sites before, but dislike that paypal seems to be the only option as IMO their fees are disproportionate compared to the rest of the banking world. I do shop using Amazon affiliate links where available. On that note, is there one still here? It has been a while since I used it, and in a quick look I can't find it again. Or has it been adblocked?
I'm about to enter the other side of the argument myself. I'm looking to start a youtube channel, with exact content direction to be decided. My other interest is computer hardware, and I've two directions to go at the same time. 1 is really deep analysis of impact of parameters in various use cases, where I've been benchmarking ram influence for many weeks already and I'm probably not even half way there. The other is the sillier side. I can't afford to break stuff for fun, but some of it will be higher risk involving watercooling, but not as you know it. I will try enabling built in youtube ads with a long term view this might provide supplemental income leading to a longer term ability to cut down my day job. However... I do recognise the chances of success are not high given the vast quantities of others already doing similar, and video work is taking considerably more work than expected for a decent production quality. Content quality also needs a lot of work before I even publish my 1st.
As there are lots of people doing that already, I can look at the more successful ones, and see how they generate their income. Now, I don't know many regular visitors photozone gets, but it looks like on youtube you've really made it once you reach about 100k subscriber level. At least, that's my definition of success. They use every trick and then some, which I admit can work with video but not necessarily photozone style content. They get sponsors, integrate ads into the videos, various premium accounts with some benefit over free ones, merchandising, affiliate links to pretty much anything that will take one. That's on top of the separate ad networks. The other difference is most of those regularly produce a lot of content. It's like people lose interest if the pace goes too low.
Could any of that be applied here? How about "Photozone TV" with say a weekly review of what's happening in the photography world? I haven't checked if there are other channels doing something like that. Photography news is slower though so maybe weekly would be a challenge outside of the major events.
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