some interesting figures about FanLib

[topaz_eyes]

Check this link

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[sayhello]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

[manna]

At $77 a day, it would take them a little over a hundred years to pay back their investors :-)

Mind you, if those figures are anywhere near accurate, ff.net is doing rather nicely indeed.

[lapislaz]

Don't be too sure about those figures - I just put my company web site in there and it said we were getting 100 dollars a day from ad revenue. Which is fascinating because we don't have any ads on our site.

[manna]

I think what it's actually calculating is potential ad revenue based on your number of page impressions. I assume the site brokers ads, or something. I didn't really go looking around it.

[topaz_eyes]

The site itself says the figures are not 100% accurate and they change.

[stewardess]

Ouch! The ad revenue may be only a guesstimate, but the daily page views, FanLib's 25,672 vs FanFiction.net's 3,846,153, is likely accurate.

Wow

[lerogue]

Talk about a Titanic --

theJadedRogue
http://www.myfandoms.com/groups/?id=16 (for all FanLib Refugees)

[ljmouse]

[topaz_eyes]

Oh for sure. The site itself says that the estimated worth of the site isn't 100% accurate. The traffic numbers give a better idea. I also agree that it costs lots of $$$ to run a site the size of fanfiction.net. If he is making a bit of a profit, I think he's earned it.

OTOH it took fanfiction.net 10 years to reach its current size and influence. Even if FanLib had done everything right, I don't think they would have reached that level in 15 months. Definitely proving that fandom isn't the get-rich-quick scheme that they thought it was.

[beege22]

If the figures for Fanlib are even approximately correct then the site is now worth one fiftieth of what was invested in it.

Hee.