I've been following Markus's blog ever since the pic of the 900k check was posted on 2+2. This guy isn't just another random guy that struck it big (not huge, but decently big). His work with prime numbers was
cited in the Fields Medal/Nobel prize in math.
There are a lot of
sites out there making quite a bit of money off ad revenue.
Markus summarizes the article to:
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Techcrunch, $60,000 in monthly ad revenue, $50,000 profit from party last weekend.
Boingboing $1 million/year
paidcontent $1 million/year 5 million page views/month
fark $600-800k/month 40 million pageviews/month
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I should also note that Fark generates additional revenue from the $5 / month subscription fee for premium users.
Digg is reportedly generating 3 mil a year in revenue but has NOT broken even. Rose could be lying though, who knows. Still, not bad for a site that's only been up for about 2 years and was developed using $12/hr programmer.
Interesting idea. I'm going to sleep on it.