Originally posted by: aekiel
I have a variety of interests 😳
Even tried my hand at writing HP fanfiction, but gave up after a while- it was tough to write and update regularly 😃 Still read a fair bit though, even today!
posttttt the link!!!!!!!!!!!!
Think this site is worth plenty of money. Industry leader in its segment, no real competitor, has a dedicated, regular userbase and runs Google ads (I have adblocker though!). Even if they sold private advertising on a CPM basis (cost per thousand impressions), they'd make a fair bit of cash.
For example, this page here (https://www.indiaforums.com/pages/advertise), says they do 150 million views a month- 15 crore impressions.
At a conservative $1 cpm ($1/1000 views), they'd be making 1.5 lakh dollars a month easily- that's more than 1 crore in INR monthly. And this is not accounting for YouTube views and other sponsored/PR stuff. Even with server costs and others, that leaves plenty in the bank. That's the beauty of user generated content!
Wouldn't be surprised if they had an option to go ad-free for premium members in the future- that's normally the line of monetisation for a forum. But India is a fledgling country in that respect- so perhaps they've not implemented it yet.