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Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

#111
I write the blog http://datagenetics.com/blog.html

In 2016, it delivered 4.3 Million PVs

I have a single Google AdSense advert on most pages and revenue generated in 2016 was $1,124.95

It pays for hosting, and the occasional steak dinner, but no, it's not a fulltime job :)

Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

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I can speak for the food blogging industry. This is my wife’s blog[1] A good food blogger focusing on the US/High GDP audience can get CPMs from $1-4[2]. Where it gets interesting are the RPM numbers. If you can manage multiple ad networks, execute 100% fill rates, bid between networks and become a preferred partner, you can rake up to $12-15in RPM [3]. Here’s more of multiple revenue sources for a successful blog [4…

Are you the owner of Cucumbertown ?

Was. Sold it [1].

[1]: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/japan...

Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There are a lot of people with adblock these days And it is soon to be built into web browsers, you have to wonder the impact that will have.

isn't ad block easy to thwart? Sites like forbes and fortune do

I read Forbes articles some rare times and still have adblocking working.

Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

#114
I have some YouTube videos that total half a million views, which is not much, but enough that I could be monetizing. I don't turn on monetizing because I don't feel okay pushing more ads on people. So my total is zero.

I would like to make a living producing positive value to the world. I don't want the additional job of promoting advertisements that I would not necessarily endorse just because my work is popular enough that advertisers will pay to take some of the attention I've gotten. Ads are inherently manipulative, and I'd rather encourage everyone to use an adblocker rather than have a conflict-of-interest with what's actually good for my audience.

Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

#115

I make about $600/mo pretty consistently with a typing game ( http://zty.pe ) - about 200k visits/mo. I once managed another project that had about 14m visits/mo and made a meager $3000. Bad target demographic.

I don't know if you were looking for feedback about the game, but the ease of losing progress quickly made me stop playing; because I was more likely to stop playing right after losing, you might want to make it take a longer time to advance levels, or to add multiple lives so that you don't lose all your progress suddenly. But I don't know how that would affect my likeliness to see the ad. To improve that, maybe add…

Losing quickly provides natural pause points to the game ;)

Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

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post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Food blogging is an enormous market. The best foodies don't get money from Adsense though, it's through sponsorship/affiliate deals, books if they hit it big. It's quite a stereotyped field though, and I would imagine it's a saturated market. Everyone wants to be like Deliciously Ella [1]. Don't even try unless you have a studio setup for the photography. Lots of food authors are pivoting towards more (usually female…

You are right. We have around $3000 worth of lighting equipment, lens, etc. But we acquired them along the way. Sponsored content is a good chunk of money (close to 30% every mom) but its nonscalable.

Can you elaborate some more on this? What kind of equipment and resources for learning more about this?

Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

#118

I'm small fish here, but since question was asked I will share. https://random.country/ brings me around 40$ passive income monthly. Around 5K visitors monthly. Probably it could bring me more money with one more ad.

I like the quiz, but I wish it told me the correct answer when I guess wrongly. You could give the correct answer either immediately or at the end of the quiz; either way would be fine.

Re: Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

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I have couple of small side projects that which are monetised through ads. Portfolio of those web apps are 7 years old and traffic is growing linearly. The problem is revenue, which is basically cutting in half every 12 - 18 months: both CTR and revenue is going down. There are a lot of people with adblock these days, but also mobile traffic is not that profitable and people learned to ignore the ads as a noise. I am…

Do you think that it's more related to adblock usage or rather people ignoring ads completely?
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