Out of the Blue

It is with fascination that I read the extensive thread that's popped up as a result of the posting of the single-player Medal of Honor demo yesterday. Frans has already made a lengthy post explaining what we did and why we did it, so I won't go further into that, but I will say that I am sort of pleased to see the debate that centered around whether we were doing the right thing or not in this case, since we actually do exert a lot of effort here to try and avoid coloring outside the lines (which some feel posting this demo qualifies as), and it's reassuring to see so many of you feel this is an important effort to make (though we certainly are a bit surprised at some of the motives that have been attributed to us here considering the efforts we take in this regard). Anyway, regardless of your opinions on this subject, your feedback is appreciated.

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Re: considerable income
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Re: considerable income Jan 2, 2002, 16:38
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I said $.40 CPM, and that's if you're lucky. You mention Fastclick and Adbility, but he doesn't use those. This site uses UGO, and I have no stats on UGO. I do know they've faced a lot of tough times though. I don't know their mix of defaults:paying ads (not all those ads you see pay something), and of the paying ads we don't know the ratio of CPM ads:CPC ads:CPA ads. For all we know he's making .02 CPM. It's not as far fetched as it seems. Gaming/entertainment sites make very poor CPM nowadays. I suggest you try applying with your entertainment site to fastclick and see if they even let you in the network.

So, you can't assume the 6 paying ads. There might be zero if they happen to all be CPC, or if any are network defaults.

Also, it's quite possible both skyscrapers count as only one banner, since they quite often are the same. And it's also useful to note that this is all pre-tax, pre-hosting, pre-bandwidth cost.
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