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

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Post by marcc »

chirau wrote: post #28

I don't know if YouTube counts here. On the weekends I upload videos for artists from my home country. I have one channel that is fairly popular. The artists themselves are not big enough to attract many people to their own channels so the use mine. We split the ad revenue. I pay them locally. My take home after deductions is anywhere from 5k to 8k per quarter. EDIT: added payout period. I give payouts per quarter be…

That's pretty impressive. I'm curious to hear how your YouTube account gained enough followers to make this possible. It would be difficult to convince an artist to upload it into your account before you had traction.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

20years wrote: post #7
archildress wrote: post #5

I hate to hijack, but I'm facing the exact same issue you are. The rates that I've heard quoted for AdSense just aren't happening for me. My rates are very similar to yours, samblr. I think that part of my problem (and it could be yours) is that I don't have a ton of written content around my free giveaways, which is the core of my site. Basically: plenty of cake, very little frosting. Can anyone offer advice for inc…

Every single one of your pages I visited shows me a remarketing ad. This tells me that Google can't find good matching advertisers for your content so they show remarketing ads instead. Remarketing ads always pay out much, much less.

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

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Post by Envec83 »

I run a couple of ad-based websites. The largest one being https://www.dailywritingtips.com

The key aspect to estimate how much you can earn is the page RPM you can get.

The average I have seen across my sits is around $2. Some niches have lower RPMs (e.g., programming, in my case at least). Some niches have much higher. I had a site about investing in gold that had $12 page RPM on average, if I remember well.

In your case, I believe the number would be higher than $2000 per month if you reach 1 million visitors. I am guessing twice as much at least.

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

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Post by mshenfield »

phoboslab wrote: post #26

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.

zty.pe is really fun - played it for an hour when it came up in another hacker news post.

How did the costs of running the 14m vists/mo compare to http://zty.pe? Different times, and probably different kind of site, but did the experience change the types of applications you tried to build?

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

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Post by splicer »

phoboslab wrote: post #26

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 think I might used this to practice touch typing. It looks addicting :)

I tried to bookmark it by hitting command-D (in Safari on a Mac), but since you capture all keystrokes, I couldn't bookmark it. Perhaps you'd see a bump in your numbers if you allowed command-D through?

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

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Post by icebraining »

jacquesm wrote: post #29
giarc wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are no ads on her site though....

And you don't happen to run an adblocker?

I disabled uBlock, still can't see any ads. Weird.

Also, uBlock tells me it only blocked two analytics scripts, no ads.

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

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Post by Cherian »

giarc wrote: post #21
Cherian wrote: post #3

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…

There are no ads on her site though....

We are switching ad publishers.

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

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Post by icebraining »

chirau wrote: post #28

I don't know if YouTube counts here. On the weekends I upload videos for artists from my home country. I have one channel that is fairly popular. The artists themselves are not big enough to attract many people to their own channels so the use mine. We split the ad revenue. I pay them locally. My take home after deductions is anywhere from 5k to 8k per quarter. EDIT: added payout period. I give payouts per quarter be…

Is that monthly or yearly?

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

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Post by lappet »

phoboslab wrote: post #26

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.

Wow, http://zty.pe is really fun!

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

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Post by atroll »

notadoc wrote: post #25
jlarocco wrote: post #15

> So I am thinking of revenue model based on ads. At its 'full' potential web application can draw a million visits per month (in 2-3 years may be). Please don't. Find a way to charge money for it, or accept that it's really not that valuable. Sad how everybody thinks merely hosting a website entitles them to revenue now.

People are accustomed to paying nothing on the web, unless it's a physical product nobody is paying for anything.

so true, and this is why many startups will fail if they switch to the pay to view model (i have my eyes on you medium)
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