{"id":2830,"date":"2013-11-30T01:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T06:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2013-11-30T01:30:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T06:30:36","slug":"online-business-models-around-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/11\/30\/online-business-models-around-content","title":{"rendered":"Online business models around content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve taken a scare resource and made it infinite, an idea by <a href=\"http:\/\/curry.com\/\">Adam Curry<\/a>. In the print world, you had n-number of ads. In the online world, you can place any amount of banners on your site, or there are a multitude of sites serving such banners. This is why its hard to generate revenue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.com\/\">Robert Scoble<\/a> brings up a great point on <a href=\"http:\/\/twit.tv\/show\/this-week-in-tech\/423\">TWiT#423<\/a> &#8211; tech journalism is everywhere. Its hard to make good quality tech content because it costs money. A good article on how an iPhone is made involves you to head to China to visit the factory floor, and can easily cost $10,000. However when you write a (blog) post, what can you make on viewership in terms of CPM? $5? $15? It is a tiny amount which is why many tech journalists\/bloggers end up repackaging press releases.<\/p>\n<p>Worlds that haven&#8217;t been touched negatively seem to be fashion &amp; cars. But tech is clearly affected.<\/p>\n<p>Evan Williams gives us tools to express ourselves &#8211; Blogger, Twitter, Medium. He&#8217;s made tonnes of money as people have been willing to create content for free. How do journalists make a living? Leo Laporte suggests that the Internet has arrived &#8211; you figure out to make a living.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is people doing it for free. It devalues the work of people doing it for bucks.<\/p>\n<p>What about the CPM for location based ads? Today you get so many apps that give away the location, with users opting in.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve taken a scare resource and made it infinite, an idea by Adam Curry. In the print world, you had n-number of ads. In the online world, you can place any amount of banners on your site, or there are a multitude of sites serving such banners. This is why its hard to generate revenue. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[436,659],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-content","tag-online"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-JE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}