Showing posts with label Revenue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Revenue. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Could The New York Times Relaunch As A Tech Startup?

The New York Times Co. Reports $709 Million in Digital Revenue for 2018

709 million dollars is a lot of revenue. For a tech startup on the way up. But for an old company, it is chump change. Your market value is not what you are making this year. It is what you are projected to make in the future years. If you are making 700 million this year, but are projected to make no money in three years, your market value will nosedive to zero. On the other hand, if you will stagnate at 700 million, you might get a 5X or a 10X and have a market value below 10B.

What would it take for the New York Times to see a 40% increase in revenues every year for years and years? Obviously the same old, same old would not do.

Is it possible for an old company to relaunch itself? Or must old companies necessarily die and new ones take their place?

Is there a hybrid model possible where a new small team comes in to take an old company to new heights? An equity structure might be where that new team gets one third, and the old NYT keeps two-thirds in equity, and the new team helps take the organization to new heights with new business models.

The broad directions would be deeply digital, niche payments, tiny payments, and global.





Friday, August 10, 2012

Friday, July 27, 2012

More From AdSense

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Simple Changes Doubled My Adsense Revenue
the 336 x 280 Large Rectangle is the most effective Adsense unit. It typically offers four ads and they are likely to be very related to the topic based on the position between the post title and body ..... Placing your Adsense unit above the fold is imperative for success. This makes sense to me for one reason. ..... The concept is really simple; make one large, well positioned ad do all the work. This will make your page look cleaner and it’s likely to improve your revenue immediately.
Split Testing: How To Increase Your Adsense Earnings 94% Overnight
Maybe the left aligned ad looks more like it’s actual content instead of an ad. .... the text ads were paying more per click. .... Winner: text ads
Improving your Adsense Revenue – An In Depth Guide
In the last year, over half of the Adsense income I have received has not come from new ads or new traffic, it has been from tweaking my current ad placements. ..... Everyone knows that exercise is good for them, but it doesn’t mean they are actually doing it...... The difference between making more money and not making more money is actually doing things. ..... Until you try both, you do not know what works best for your particular webpage. ..... Each webpage is different, some will do well with image ads, some will do well with text ads, some will do about the same. .... wider ad formats tend to outperform their taller counterparts, due to their reader-friendly format ...... bigger ads provide bigger results, but I have also found that sticking a big ad in a small place where it looks weird does not do well. ..... Ads above the fold tend to work well ..... Ads within the content tend to work well. ...... Above the fold did best as did ads within the content. ..... I think most people can probably increase their income significantly by just optimizing, even if they are having the same traffic levels. ...... Adsense for search, also known as Google custom search. It is the Adsense product that has made me the most money. It is not well understood and not widely used. When it is used, it is not used well. ..... The click through rate of Adsense for search is very often around 25 percent...... If there is one Adsense tool I recommend over all others, it is Adsense for search. ...... create a custom search engine that searched all the great resources you know of, and not include all the crappy ones.
AdSense tips
Find your keywords .... Improve your keywords
7 AdSense Tricks that Will Increase Your Income
You can use Spyfu.com to find high-paying keywords related to your niche. It will help you to display ads with high CPC. Therefore, you will get higher commission when people click on your ads. Finding high-paying keywords is important if you want to boost your AdSense revenue.
Google Custom Search with Adsense for Blogger or WordPress Blogs
[I have seen Adsense Search performing much better (in terms of CTR and revenue) after switching from the standand Adsense for Search to the more customizable Google Custom Search.]
How To Monetize Adsense For Search On Your Blog
Adsense for Search is another brilliant way to earn money from your Google Adsense Account. It’s implemented by putting an individually-coded search panel to your blog.
Top 9 Google AdSense Alternatives
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Facebook's Money Problem

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Facebook's Earnings Report Underscores Its Challenges
the decelerating growth of its advertising business, which accounted for 85 percent of its $3.7 billion in revenue ..... in the last quarter, Facebook got $1.28 in revenue from each of its users, which is barely changed from the same time last year. .... the average revenue per user in the U.S. and Canada jumped to $3.20 from $2.84 a year ago
There is no relationship at Facebook between user growth and revenue growth. And that seems to be the problem. Long term I am not worried. There are several ways to monetize Facebook. Facebook has to figure out Facebook-unique ways to make money.
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Twitter: $45 Million To $150 Million To $250 Million

Image representing Tumblr as depicted in Crunc...Image via CrunchBaseSo Twitter made $45 million last year, and it is projected to make $150 million this year. These numbers are a slap in the face of those who kept asking back in 2009, okay, so Twitter has all these users, but how will it ever make money?

Some of those pundits are saying the same about Tumblr. Well, these are going to be Tumblr's numbers two or three years from now, more like two. If you can get deeply engaged users, monetization is just a matter of time. The players that matter know that simple fact.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Millions And Millions

Image representing Steven Carpenter as depicte...Image via CrunchBaseSteven Carpenter

TC Teardown: 13 Ways To Get To $10 Million In Revenues (Part I)
cheap to start but expensive to achieve scale
TC Teardown: 13 Ways To Get To $10 Million In Revenues (Part II)
media, paid service, and physical commerce ..... search, gaming, social networks, and new media ..... marketplace, video, commerce, retail, subscription, music, lead generation, hardware and payments ..... Video ad rates are typically amongst the highest in online media ($15-$20 CPM) ..... audio ads are not actionable, and display ads often get ignored (music apps tend to stay open in a browser tab in the background). ..... we will see an explosion of innovative hardware companies over the next few years
Steven Carpenter has done a good job of demystifying here, perhaps too good a job. I think the money is in the mystery. A business is much more than the sum of its parts. And there is that creative part, the human element to the sauce. Each startup really is unique, although it is perfectly plausible for a Steven Carpenter to come along and box them up into a few swift categories.

"It can be done over and over again," Sam Walton said. He was talking about reinventing retailing, of course.

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