At 1/9/08 03:51 PM, Evark wrote:
Ha ha. Kinda bullshit numbers in the first place. It's based off traffic ranking, and it tells you right on the page "Annual Turnover" as the number they expect. That means Newgrounds rakes in XXXXXXXX per year, but they don't count how much it costs to run it. NG has a full time staff nearing the double digits, astronomical web-hosting costs, and an office mortgage to make good on.
Although I couldn't help but smiling as I noticed the lack of "Eric" on the list.
I can't even begin to imagine how awesome NG would be if we made $15 million per year. It would be insane how much awesome stuff we could do... We could give away $100,000 a month in prizes and that wouldn't even scratch the surface!
I always wonder where these numbers come from and who actually gets them... Like if other top 500 websites are actually making $1 million + every month and I'm just that stupid. I really am just a total failure at monetizing the site, especially since the redesign launch... But it's hard to imagine other sites are REALLY doing that much better, unless their users just love to click ads. Apparently we perform really well with the MMORPG ads on NG, compared to other sites that run them, but even then it doesn't add up to anything near those numbers.
And I still have an invite open for a professional ad sales guy - just has to be someone who is totally pro and knows what he's doing.