I am averaging 60 million page views a month...no ads tho..how much am i missing out

**Sublime** · 11-25-2007, 02:59 PM

Its amazing you have gone that long without placing ads on your site. You may even want to try an adsense text ad or two on each page. Typically they are more well received with users than flashy banner ads that try to take your eyes away from the content.

50 page views per visitor is pretty high which will result in less CPM but even with .30-$1 CPM you are looking at $18,000 to $60,000 per month.

However, you may want to jump into the graphic ads right now for 4th quarter and 1st quarter which have always been my best periods. I'm seeing about $2 CPM from BurstMedia after they take their cut. (They take out 50%)

I would sign up for BurstMedia, TribalFusion and Google Adsense among many others if you are having trouble filling all your inventory.

**john546** · 12-16-2007, 01:53 PM

That's a lot of traffic and far more than what my sites ever have. If I had that I would be a millionaire by now.

**r2rprofits** · 01-14-2008, 09:35 AM

Wow... thats huge!

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Originally Posted by conceptart

Hello,

I am the founder of a large online digital art and entertainment art community which is averaging the following stats:

1. 60 million page views per month
2. 1.2 million visits per month
3. 700k uniques per month

75 percent is american traffic the rest is europe mostly.

the demographic is mostly 16-35 year old males (the video game crowd with a creative education) very tech savvy...most educated and highly talented.

we have extremly high quality and unique content including tons of exclusive art for major video game and movie projects that go up in our community.

nearly every major entertainment corporation has members on our website, from microsoft to sony to ea to nintendo to ILM to Weta Digital...you name it, they are on there.

we run the site as a non-profit organization and have always spurned ads. we fund the community through training workshops which bring out most the big companies and about 300 art school students each shot at about five hundred bucks a head. We also have dvd educational content and downloadable art education content for sale that does very well.

Now, today we were pushed to do advertising by another company due to our traffic numbers and I am seriously wondering...how much are we missing out on by continuing down the "no way do we sell out" path. It seems that CPM advertising is the best way to go but it also seems like rates have gone way down over the years.

Most the sites I am finding with sixty million page views a month are claiming a 20k-70k a month revenue stream. This is not possible is it? It seems way bloated to me for just having some banners up.

Any advice is appreciated. We give all our money back to the community in form of scholarships, educational programs, and improved technology (the galleries are currently down for updates).

Are we making a mistake by not doing ads? Is there really significant revenue to be had with traffic numbers like ours? It is of note, that our traffic has doubled every year for five years in a row. We are about to undergo a major expansion into other niches and we are reconsidering our biz model.

Best,

CA

**shazam1986** · 05-10-2008, 02:42 PM

You would be making around $60,000 a month with Adsense, Viralytics Media or ValueClick i bet

**miksy123** · 09-15-2008, 03:40 PM

700k uniques per month! How did you do that?