Comments on: Are Online Ads The Easy Way To Donate ?

By: Julian Stone

Julian Stone — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:10:07 +0000

Quotes from me….

“Ad based models will cease to work by 2009″
“Traffic based models will cease to work by 2009″
“Single income stream models will find life difficult in 2009″

A mate of mine is the director of infonews – http://www.infonews.co.nz. I’ve been talking with them for a while now about the rapid decline in advertising and traffic as a valid model. They’ve listened and are putting some new monetization methods into play.

They are onto it and have recognized the demise of the ad model so are doing something about it.

We all need something ‘up our sleeves’ in the coming years.
Go read the “Purple Cow” by Seth Godin and you’ll see what I mean.

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Why Things Are More Grim Than Most People Think at diversity.net.nz — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:08:14 +0000

[...] add fuel to my argument I was please to read this post by Yves. They have a pretty successful website that since its inception has attracted 35000 visits [...]

By: Stephan Schmidt

Stephan Schmidt — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:39:42 +0000

I’ve removed ads from my blog, it didn’t feel right to me.

I think a paypal donate badge would feel better and get you more money than ads.

Peace
-stephan

By: Yves

Yves — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:40:08 +0000

Hi Peter,

That was a bit my points being against it.

Question is, can we change the way ads are seen (not ads but an easy sponsor badge), or can we find a way to sponsor projects that doesn’t require to fill in credit card forms.

By: Peter Rust

Peter Rust — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:22:47 +0000

My hunch is that ads work well to financially support blogs and pages that lack the funding for hosting, but for open-source projects with even partial corporate support, one of the first things the corporate sponsor can do is remove ads.

This not only makes the project seem more professional and usually pleases users, it also prevents commercial alternatives to the open-source project from purchasing ads on the open-source site.

It’s extremely rare for high-profile open-source projects to have ads, though they may have “platinum/gold/silver” corporate sponsors…