/biz/ - Business and Finance

>>141
Explain

>>173
People have been doing it for years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

The idea is that you have 1000x1000 pixels, and sell them at something like $10 a pixel. Some people pay to have their cute icon displayed, but once the novelty builds up enough that it starts making the rounds in the blogosphere, traffic spikes, and marketing drones in big companies swoop in to put their banners up (since they are scum that will mechanically try to yell about their shitty product in any popularly viewed space).

It's literally a webpage that has nothing but ads. Because this was such a ridiculous idea, everyone HAD to go see what the fuss was about, so Alex ended up being viable. But it's only novel the first time round - back in those days there were also many copycats, most of them stayed dead for ages. I don't think this guy will end up amounting to much either, but even if he does, he's just one of many. Making a site like this as a business strategy is basically like playing the lottery.

>>174
anon no one fucking likes ads, You can get people to pay for ads but what worth is it if no one wants to fucking look at it.

You need to add a reason why they would want to look at it, a game? Upload your face and get a pixelated face made up of thousands of ads?

there needs to be a reason why they want to look at it, otherwise its useless.

>>266
Nah, don't underestimate how retarded normals are. They'll stare at ads if enough of their friends tell them it's the new hip&cool thing. They even pay to watch ads sometimes.

What happens is, at some point a big tech news site like boingboing or slashdot or reddit or hackernews or whatever the kids read these days links to your site on a slow news day. Suddenly there's a traffic spike from thousands of mouth breathing retards, they aren't even curious, they just habitually click every link they see on their feed like trained pigeons. Many of them then go to their facebook feed and post hur dur look at this amazin one million site so cool hoping to score brownie points with their social circle. Process repeats recursively. This generates a brief period of apparent high traffic for your domain.

Everyone who comes to the site out of curiosity looks around to see what the fuss is about. Because many of these birdbrains have the attention span of a retarded finch, they inevitably start clicking on a few of the existing ads like zombies. This generates some apparent click through ratio for your domain.

Eventually the scummy marketing people catch wind of your site. If they happen to arrive at the middle or end of your wave (which they probably do), they look at the apparent traffic and CTR, and greedily assume that they've found a great place to advertise. They buy some pixels, since their marketing budgets are so big it's not a huge risk.

That's the whole scam. Yes, it's very dubious. Like you say, who would just look at ads? Well, nobody. That's why most of these sites fail. Like I said, it takes exceptional circumstances to make it work.