MetaTalk posts tagged with revenue

Does blocking Google-analytics affect revenue for metafilter?

tiamat — Tue, 23 May 2006 19:01:02 -0800

Google-analytics.com. What's the upshot of my blocking scripts from this site/service? Does this effect advertising or revenue for metafilter? [more...]

anonymous comments for $1 a shot

agropyron — Wed, 17 May 2006 10:37:32 -0800

Less of a feature request, more of a mega cash-cow idea for Matt: The ability to make anonymous comments for $1 a shot.

I'm genuinely interested as to when Matt thinks he'll have enough money to improve the site.

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:34:48 -0800

Let's take stock for a moment. We all know that MeFi is really, really slow, and really unreliable. Recently (for me at least), it's sometimes been unusably slow. I'm genuinely interested as to when Matt thinks he'll have enough money to improve the site. How is the ad revenue going? Are there any plans to charge for new membership?

Has TextAd revenue been declining?

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:19:14 -0800

Has TextAd revenue been declining? [more inside]

Micro-MeFi-Charges?

crunchland — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 05:24:10 -0800

With all this talk about finding ways to make Matt money, I've come up with the answer...

Today's Mefi is brought to you by

RobertLoch — Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:07:30 -0800

Today’s viewing of MetaFilter is pay for by .......(more inside)

A Metafilter Proposal

Su — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:58:47 -0800

A Metafilter Proposal at theobvious.com, supporting pay-for-play, and a few other controls. Pretty well thought out. Of particular interest might be the sliding scale on price. Discuss.

Admin duties on metafilter are a lot of work and more than a full time job.

mathowie — Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:42:11 -0800

Just so you know, I was in LA for the last couple days, unannounced (because I didn't want people to take advantage of it).

I guess it's pretty clear now that I spend my time cleaning crap off metafilter 24/7 these days, and now that I was away, maybe everyone can appreciate how much work it is to snub double-posts, fix html errors, and ban malicious, callous users. I'm not looking for an inbox of thank-yous or twenty brown-nosing comments on this thread, I just feel it's worth saying. Admin duties on metafilter are a lot of work and more than a full time job.

My first attempt at supporting myself with this site will launch on Monday. Some people may not like it. I made it as harmless and innocous as possible. It won't make me rich, but it'll hopefully provide enough money for server upgrades and upkeep. Keep the last couple days in mind if you find anything not to like about The New Thing That Launches Monday.

Should we run ads?

Neale — Mon, 04 Jun 2001 19:29:17 -0800

Okay, we've discussed it before, but now having looked at the stats for the last couple of months, ADs are a real possibility. Last I checked the average AD payout was $1 ever 1000 page views. Now, with MeFi getting over 5,000,000 a month, that's $5000 a month in revenue. That could keep Matt happy all year round and MeFi up for life. Comments?