Comments on: How Digg Found a Way to Make Money http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:03:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Is Digg Headed For the Deadpool?: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-408218 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:17:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-408218 [...] says Digg is embarking on a new strategy of “engaging with users,” and is focusing on revenue-generating ventures such as Digg Ads. But those features depend on growing traffic and users, and Digg seems to no longer have either. [...]

]]> By: Why did Digg fail to innovate? - Quora http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-277191 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:28:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-277191 [...] by recession rumours and had to begin monetizing. Peter Clark • Insert a dynamic date herehttp://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how…Sangeeta Narayan • Insert a dynamic date hereUm, despite Mark Zuckerberg's oft-repeated [...]

]]> By: Digg Close to Profits, New CEO Also Just Around the Corner http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242235 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:33:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242235 [...] here, and we said we need to focus on revenue and ads.” The Digg CEO says the company now has a new ad platform that is “working great,” so the focus is on getting the redesigned site launched [...]

]]> By: Peeling Away Grandiosity « Fail Often http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242234 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:33:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242234 [...] see this healthful process in the activities of a company like Digg, which finally implemented a sensible ad strategy only recently after years of [...]

]]> By: SocialMidea » Digg Now a Top 100 Site Worldwide Thanks to… Pakistan? http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242233 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:15:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242233 [...] recent financial success, integration with Twitter and Facebook, and a renewed focus on social news has helped Digg increase [...]

]]> By: Felix Desroches http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242232 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:35:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242232 Wow, I step away from Digg for 6 months and they do this?

Well done, guys, well done ::weakly claps hands::

]]> By: 社群書籤網站Digg怎麼開始獲利的？ | 網路趨勢行銷與開發 http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242231 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:39:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242231 [...] 這幾天，GigaOM傳出了Digg開始獲利的好消息，Digg的CEO Jay Adelson大動作的在媒體上宣告：『2009年我們在以EBITDA認定的會計原則下是獲利的』(值得一提的是，Facebook在2009年初也做過類似的宣告)。 [...]

]]> By: kris acer http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242230 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:56:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242230 I think digg is only for IM expert, because when I posted my bookmark on digg, there was never in front page. you need lots of “digg” to make your digg appears in front page. do you have any idea about that?

thanks
kris
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]]> By: Digg 的生财之路 | 手机资讯网 http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242229 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:04:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242229 [...] Liz Gannes from GigaOM | Logout 译，转载请注明ifanr.com [...]

]]> By: 1bLOGGER http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242228 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:04:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242228 i just think that advertisers should produce better content/products

at least users will have more reason to click on ads

]]> By: Saumil Mehta http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242227 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:21:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242227 Blended ads that look like content will but of course see massive boosts in CTR over arbitrary creative deployed in banner blindness regions of the page. This is not about deception per se but its certainly not 100% ethical or pure. There’s a reason why Google background-colors their own top ads in yellow even though the top 2 ads drive the primary amount of revenue on a given page.

Am I missing something? Why is this innovative?

]]> By: Chris K http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242226 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:17:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242226 That was my first thought. Not a good outlook if the way to make money is to make your ads look “dig-like” in order to get hits.

]]> By: yeah ok http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242225 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:59:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242225 Wow… ads, so inventive. People still go to Digg? It’s a joke how badly the top stories are manipulated by the owners. It makes me think of Ruppert Murdock and his papers.

]]> By: David Robins http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242224 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:12:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242224 informative article! Thanks Liz.
It is good news that free website are finding new ways to make money and stay alive!

]]> By: Jeff Barr’s Blog » Links for Saturday, February 27, 2010 http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242223 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:55:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242223 [...] GigaOm: How Digg Found a Way to Make Money – “Digg Ads as a whole see about a 1 percent click-through rate, but what’s interesting is the spread between more successful ads and less successful ones. Campaigns that mimic the style of Digg — using a numbered list, for example, or pointing to articles rather than product information — were much more effective, with up to 4 percent CTRs compared to 0.3 or 0.4 for the worst-performing Digg Ads. “ [...]

]]> By: Top Posts — WordPress.com http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/#comment-242222 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:24:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=101791#comment-242222 [...] How Digg Found a Way to Make Money Social networking behavior — endless repetitive page views, unvetted content — isn’t a great fit for [...] [...]

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