| mo money mo problems |
| posted by max on 2006-08-22 16:50:26 |
if you haven't seen my latest ytmnd yet, check it out. What I'm trying to say is YTMND isn't doing so hot, traffic and press is better than ever, but ad revenue just isn't keeping up with the costs of running such a high traffic site. what this means is i'm going to need to stop focusing on new features as much and start focusing on making YTMND more profitable again. read more for further info (including shirt info!). You are going to start to notice more ads on YTMND. I've always tried to keep them as out of the way as possible and as few to a page as possible, but YTMND just can't afford to do that any longer. I've added pop ups to all sub domains for non-logged in users as a temporary solution. The front page is probably going to have a few ads added on to it in various places. I'm currently waiting on a few more shirt designs and I'm going to post them later this week and let you guys decide which ones get printed. There are still around 20 XXXL of the old shirts so if you want one of the original shirts and are a hefty dude go here. I also have someone doing some designs for a sticker, which is probably going to be screen printed on vinyl and I'll sell them in packs of 10 or 20 or something. If you have any good ideas for shirts or hoodies etc, feel free to mail me a design at max@ytmnd.com and we can discuss it. I am going to be sending out a demographics survey to all registered users via private message later today. Filling it out would be extremely helpful as I know almost nothing about most of you and can't really give advertisers a good idea of who you are! Better ads = more money = less ads = better ytmnd. Last but not least, I signed a release for the Colbert Report to show some YTMNDs on there, so hopefully they should air sometime this week (if at all). P.S.: if you run ad/popup blockers and are capable of/willing to disable them when using ytmnd.com, it might be helpful. PLEASE DO NOT RANDOMLY CLICK ADS, THIS DOES NOT HELPClick ads when you see relevant information about products you may wish to purchase. Ad clicks are worthless without people actually buying products. |
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| $_$ | ||||||
| Nested on an old news page, lol. |
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| ROFL | ||||||
| Max, your ads contain viruses. | ||||||
| 1st | ||||||
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| oh hi, i upgraded your ram | ||||||
| hi! | ||||||
| =][ | ||||||
| omg lucky 7! | ||||||
| I for one am down with that! | ||||||
| Ytmnd cud get shut down | ||||||
| 10 | ||||||
| 9TH LOL | ||||||
| w00t shirts! | ||||||
| and by that, I mean all that! | ||||||
| yo | ||||||
| YTMND | ||||||
| top 20!! | ||||||
| I failed, o well top 20 FTW | ||||||
| and by all that, I mean, do what you need to do Max, YTMND must liveeeee!!! | ||||||
| [17:51] @goldberg >> fyre_: i would have told you i was making a news post about it but you would have sniped my comment | ||||||
| in b4 20 | ||||||
| zoop | ||||||
| lol 22 | ||||||
| http://yourethemannowdogdotcom.ytmnd.com/ | ||||||
| Well, when you get more t-shirt sizes in, I'll be sure to purchase one. | ||||||
| wow, i actually got first! anyway, I have some great ideas for hoodies. | ||||||
| Yes, shirts!! | ||||||
| I expect to see some of those Colbert Lightsaber videos on the show then, well done max we know you must do what you must to keep the site running. | ||||||
| lol 25th | ||||||
| lol, max is a broke jew | ||||||
| Woot! God knows what number this is! | ||||||
| A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites (as in masonry). It is a general term for a house of worship. The majority of the main temples, along the major religions, are aligned in the cardinal directions, especially in an east-west axis which symbolically represents the sun's path, the "donor of life". --- THE MORE YOU KNOW! | ||||||
| Keep it alive, Max! You can do it! | ||||||
| i wish i was a hefty dude :( | ||||||
| You will be rich a week after clothing comes out. | ||||||
| looking forward to ytmnd wear!! way to go Max! | ||||||
| WHO WANTS A MOTHERF*CKING SHIRT? | ||||||
| I'd buy a shirt... | ||||||
| What what whaaaat? I love the idea of a hoodie with YTMND on it. Great replacement for jackets. | ||||||
| I'm sure things will look up eventually ^_^, I'm definitely planning on buying lots of YTMND merch. | ||||||
| 40th? And I am clicking on every ad link possible to help the cause Max...plus as I mentioned in the comments to your YTMND: If you want, I'll be more than willing to chip in with some graphic design work. | ||||||
| Get ready for the SELL OUT. | ||||||
| I want me a shirt ;) I really need to start donating. | ||||||
| More shirts are needed! My one from last batch is almost worn out. | ||||||
| l0olz | ||||||
| 41? | ||||||
| Ads? what Ads? :p | ||||||
| We need to make money. Can anyone say, "BAKE SALE"? | ||||||
| 41st? lol, popups | ||||||
| ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐v‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ | ||||||
| hey remember when metallica used to be good but their music got worse and they started making more money? | ||||||
| why is the comment system back to 60 seconds? | ||||||
| If you want to rake in some money... get an ad contract from someone, AMD, Nike, Dell... someone like that. | ||||||
| Also, there are quite a few good clothing ideas in a few ytmnds (such as "blue ball machine" boxers) | ||||||
| hey Max, what about shirts of the Various Fads here on YTMND? theyre can even be a PTKFGS Shirt and a YESYES Shirt. and theyre can be a *BLANK* Doesnt Change Facial Expressions! Shirt. theyre can be almost anything that you can put the Logos on, you just gotta find what people want. | ||||||
| Max goldberg more like max...ebaums.
I want money too. | ||||||
| CAR WASH!!!! | ||||||
| ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐v | ||||||
| could the high bandwith and high traffic prices be related to the DDOS attacks? | ||||||
| 59th | ||||||
| CLICK THE ADS | ||||||
| $_$ | ||||||
| Im with Zeni. We need ter have a BAKE SALE LULZ!1
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| delete sites with a rating of 3 or minus after 2 months. | ||||||
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| We have your back Max. | ||||||
| hey, at least we're getting new shirts -.- | ||||||
| 67 | ||||||
| AUTOMATICALLY DELETE NSFW SITES WITH A RATING BELOW 2 AFTER A WEEK!!!1111 | ||||||
| "why is the comment system back to 60 seconds?" I blame bandwidth. Also socks. | ||||||
| Colbert owns. I love you Max. We should pilfer the coffers of eBaums. He has more than he deserves. | ||||||
| awesome | ||||||
| max is the internet still flapping | ||||||
| $_$ in before 100. | ||||||
| Good luck, Max. Also, c*cks. | ||||||
| LIAR! | ||||||
| What about a pay pal donate button? | ||||||
| so what happens to the sponsorship money? | ||||||
| You'd think that 300,000+ users could each give $1.00...cheap asses | ||||||
| why dont you just make the site layout wider and have 2 racks of ads either side. no one would mind as long as the site stays up , thats all im bothered about. as are most.
hell dude you gotta do what you gotta do, 16k is alot of cash. also instead of the YTMND logo in flash preloader have an advertisment. you would get mega bux for that. | ||||||
| in b4 100 | ||||||
| I'll help you! I'll buy your stuff! | ||||||
| Colbert Report publicity FTW!
maybe in before 100? | ||||||
| i will talk to my wife about a donation. I will trade in the broken down saturn in my garage. Unless you would like to take it off my hands for the scrap parts. 99 SL2. interested? | ||||||
| $_$ in before Colbert | ||||||
| In before 100! Hey, can you sponsor a YTMND with a money order? Cause, I'd so do it. | ||||||
| 85th>? | ||||||
| lol, capitalism | ||||||
| $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ FTW!!! CONSOLODATE NOW!!! Find the Best Loan Offers in minutes.
We compare over 300 lenders to find the lowest mortgage rates available.
We help consumers get the best loans. MortgageLoan Online Since 1995. | ||||||
| max, you make me wanna get a job. | ||||||
| I CRY MYSELF TO SLEEP | ||||||
| Like I mentioned in your site, once I'm a famous game programmer I plan on sneaking YTMND-related easter eggs into all the games I work on, and THEN I can actually contribute to the site...also I'm a dirt poor college student living off my dad's money right now, that's why I can't help now, the best I can do is click ads for things I want... | ||||||
| under 100 lolz | ||||||
| no news of the overhaul to the sponsorship section of the site? | ||||||
| oh, I get it. All your news headlines are song titles. I like that, and your website. That is all. | ||||||
| oh shiiiiiiiiii | ||||||
| 100th LEETSAUCE@URMOM>COM | ||||||
| PARTY TILL YOU PUKE | ||||||
| omg in the before 3 digits | ||||||
| 100th!!!1111111111111111111111111111111111 LEETAAUCE@URMOM.COM | ||||||
| colbert release = win
pop-ups eh, but not for us so who cares!
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| 100 | ||||||
| money aint fo reals :( I hear ya | ||||||
| haha none of you got it. | ||||||
| Max is behind on his yacht payments again. | ||||||
| fluck | ||||||
| Don't let money change ya. :( | ||||||
| 108th | ||||||
| Post | ||||||
| a lot of people inquired about making Peppers Revolucion into a t-shirt. that'd be fine with me... | ||||||
| mo money mo money
also, pop up blocker disabled. | ||||||
| WE NEED TEKSOQP HAIR PRODUCTS!!!! | ||||||
| 1st comment | ||||||
| YTMND MUGS, YTMND VIDEO GAMES, YTMND DOLL, YTMNF THE FLAMETHROWERS. | ||||||
| t-shirts and hoodies ftw! how about a paid membership option for an ad-free viewing experience? not that they really bother me, it's just that in all my years on the internets i have yet to buy anything from an advertisement on a website, there aren't very many that i click on for that matter. | ||||||
| Of course, TEKSOQP! | ||||||
| Livejasmin.com | ||||||
| "WE NEED TEKSOQP HAIR PRODUCTS!!!!" I'd probably even buy those. Better yet, teksoqp® brand Christmas-tree-shaped cookie-cutters and fishnets. | ||||||
| 118th | ||||||
| "theyre can even be a PTKFGS Shirt and a YESYES Shirt." Yeah, alternate-universe shirts will definitely be safe to sell. Also DYFWM. | ||||||
| umm i accidentally destroyed your hard drive trying to upgrade your ram. also, you owe me 300,000 dollars in injury claims. sorry. | ||||||
| $10 says at least 25% of the people who take the survey lie on it just to be asses | ||||||
| COLBERT REPORT FTW! | ||||||
| Max needs mo money? Don't we all max. | ||||||
| 122 | ||||||
| How about a "You have now, offically, CROSSED THE LINE!" shirt? | ||||||
| If my latest invention (water shooting lamps) takes off, I will donate lots of money. Until then I am broke :( | ||||||
| PTKFGS shirt would definitely sell. however I dont think a GAYTMND shirt would do all that well. A MichaelWolfson t shirt would do better even. | ||||||
| "How about a "You have now, offically, CROSSED THE LINE!" shirt?" You win. That would sell out in a day. | ||||||
| I would rather wear a t shirt made out of woody allen's pubic hair than wear a michael wolfson shirt | ||||||
| I would like a shirt that said "also clocks" with a picture of a clock and "ytmnd.com" on the back. Then also the "c*cks" alt for the nsfw. Also maybe one with the BK king and "Where's your god now?" And of course upvoter and downvoter shirts with five and one stars on them. | ||||||
| Also C*cks shirt. But with roosters on them. | ||||||
| ytmnd on Colbert Report? Oh, I wanna watch that one when it comes up. | ||||||
| i bet more people would sponsor crap if they were old enough to have credit cards/paypal.. (Including myself).. 1 more year | ||||||
| Or maybe a shirt that said "also [pic of chicken]" | ||||||
| Thanks for keeping the site relatively ad-free as long as you have. I'll try to support as much as possible. | ||||||
| OMG UR A FACSIST!!!!!!!!11 plz make ytmnd w/o ads plz ^_^ | ||||||
| Maybe a shirt with "PICTURE. SOUND. TEXT." on front and "ytmnd.com" on back? | ||||||
| BTW: Wow, max makes YTMND. | ||||||
| leet-shoe, your ideas will save this site. Mark my words | ||||||
| close | ||||||
| http://creamax.ytmnd.com/
cash rules everything around MAX . C.R.E.A.M. get the money | ||||||
| Tits or gtfo shirt. | ||||||
| Maybe a milton shirt, with a pic of a stapler on the back? | ||||||
| Or a "I bought this shirt to keep ads off ytmnd" shirt | ||||||
| ugh, i just went on a little while ago and the old news was still there, next thing i know there are 137 comments. also, hooray for t-shirts, and you should try and get ads for computer equiptment so I can buy stuff to support ytmnd. | ||||||
| the first second i see ytmnd products available i will purchase them | ||||||
| make a "don't forget poland" shirt | ||||||
| Running out of money must be hard for a Jew...
jk man. | ||||||
| More frequent donations coming your way. Maybe Ill start a "sponsor a starving YTMND" program for underappreciated sites that never got the attention they deserved. | ||||||
| Keep those adult mannequin ads though, I'm saving up to buy a lady friend, yay! | ||||||
| Also YTMND jerseys with screename printed on back. | ||||||
| Colbert Report, woot! | ||||||
| we need a hassan t-shirt | ||||||
| ^^^ Hassan T-shirt...all over print of "ALAYALEELAYEELAYAEE" | ||||||
| ytmnd deck of cards baby | ||||||
| YTMND jerseys sound awesome. | ||||||
| I can see the ytmnd turning into another "hot topic" store with teenagers rushing up to buy t-shirts with fads and catchphrases on them. | ||||||
| nevar forget! ;_; | ||||||
| don't care | ||||||
| I have an idea, an all black shirt that has the preloader image on the front.. | ||||||
| Sean Connery + Finding Forrester = YTMND | ||||||
| YES! 162 | ||||||
| Max if i won a lottery i will give 25% of my wining to ytmnd.com | ||||||
| I'd rather pay for ytmnd than have more ads and popups. whos with me? | ||||||
| Maybe you could save money by having a listed database of commonly used songs and sound files. people can enter in the file name in the YTMND - O - MATIC when making their sites, so then every site made this way will call up that file. This way you only need to store one copy instead of 2,000 copies of the same song. That will cut down on server space. | ||||||
| dam run some ad's for photoshop or fireworks, so people can buy the software online and make better YTMND's also 757893th | ||||||
| New rule: anyone who calls the number of their post pays the server cost for that month. | ||||||
| Delete sites with no ratings or with the rating of 1. | ||||||
| Colbert Report FTW! | ||||||
| 170th | ||||||
| ytmnd deck of cards baby that sounds good | ||||||
| "blue ball machine" boxers. If you do that you should give some money to Somethingawful. | ||||||
| 173d | ||||||
| I downvoted this story. | ||||||
| i really have nothing better to do than be the 170 something commenter on this god forsaken site. cheers | ||||||
| For T-shirts all I want is a black one with a big YTMND star logo on front center. Maybe a happycat shirt too. | ||||||
| I hope Colbert Report runs some star wars stephen YTMND's soon. | ||||||
| I'd buy a NEDM T-shirt. | ||||||
| I do however think that one time paid accounts would probably cover the remaining losses for a few months at least. | ||||||
| I'm sure this had been said before but anyways a shirt with a downvoter/upvoter logo with 1 or 5 stars would be nice. | ||||||
| MONEY! | ||||||
| lawlitties | ||||||
| Max, I would willingly pay $15 a year for an account. | ||||||
| I could see a line of shirts. Like "This shirt doesn't change facial expressions." "POKEYMON!?". A pink shirt with "You're my cuppycake gumdrops." other crap like that. | ||||||
| Here's a thought- an "I don't get it" shirt. I saw a YTMND touting a design for such a shirt, though I forget where. | ||||||
| Instead of a "sponsor your site" section, what about banner ad area specifically for YTMND sites, sort of like what they've done on the SA forums? People pay $10 to get their banner in the rotation to promote their site for an entire month. | ||||||
| leet-shoe I want a shirt that says "I bought this shirt to keep ads off ytmnd" NOW!! | ||||||
| Oh noes YTMND is turning into Ebaums! $_$ | ||||||
| I CANNOT WAIT FOR SHIRTS AND STICKERS! | ||||||
| I have an aversion to PayPal. Can I send a Check to support YTMND? | ||||||
| Your lack of ad revenue could well be to do with the prevalence of adblockers and popup blockers. I for one have unblocked google ads for this site, but it'll be a cold day in hell when I turn off my popup blocker. Popups suck donkey balls, just get the merchandise out there - don't stop at t-shirts, we want the coffee mugs, the paperweights, the ashtrays, the action figure... While you're at it, ads for music sites where tracks on your albums can be found would be good revenue if you can convert. | ||||||
| I would KILL for action figures. KILL. | ||||||
| ill buy an nedm shirt | ||||||
| You are an incredibly sensitive man, who inspires Joy-Joy feelings in all those around you. max, I will do all I can to help. The YTMND sticker idea is nice. I'd fill buses full of em. Also, buying a shirt to help you wouldn't hurt. I never ever sponsored a site yet. I'm afraid of Paypal. :( | ||||||
| huzzah! | ||||||
| I second the action figures idea. | ||||||
| max there needs to be a nedm shirt just fyi | ||||||
| Are you meaning to tell me that people ACTUALLY buy sh*t from ads? WTF, really? | ||||||
| I said it yesterday, too. Convert audio that's huge. I did a quick test and found a 1.9MB WAV file that was easily converted down to 230k or so. That would significantly cut down the amount of bandwidth you used on huge files. | ||||||
| 200 | ||||||
| Give people who have sponsored a site a status symbol like a different color username in comments
Delete all current sites with a rating under 2 stars
Term limit on poorly performing YTMNDS
As mentioned before, some kind of sound/music depository to prevent duplicates
Contests for merchandise designs
(I still want the original shirt)
$13.37/year subscription
...some ideas | ||||||
| Wow. i had no idea this place took that much money to run. also, c*cks. | ||||||
| Ya max, you need to work on cutting down bandwidth by improving the preloader so that MP3's work properly at any bitrate, and making it so ONLY mp3's can be uploaded. Also limit images that can be uploaded, so there are less retards trying to upload bmp's for example. | ||||||
| SHIrTSD! WTF WhERE!!?? | ||||||
| LOL wiiskeet.ytmnd.com
Also skeet | ||||||
| Problems folks. Copyright infringement on like, all of the aforementioned products. We aren't ebaums for god's sake, we're the man now dog! The preloader shirt would kick teh azz though. | ||||||
| $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ | ||||||
| Colbert + ytmnd= never ending orgasm | ||||||
| I'll disable adblocker for this site and this site only | ||||||
| How much you wanna bet half that bandwidth is people posting YTMND pics on MySpace pages? | ||||||
| Maybe you could sell tickets to that showing of snakes on a plane and some of that year supply of Sobe? | ||||||
| Max, post the link to the PayPal calculation so that everyone can submit exact amounts, also you should have an open fundraiser and ask every user to donate a single dollar, or moar. | ||||||
| the man speaks the truth. Make is so that poeple cannot link ytmnd pictures, only the url | ||||||
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| In before 300, also damn. | ||||||
| YTMND, NEDM & Bill Stickers Will Be Prosecuted shirts would probably sell. | ||||||
| Colbert, lol. He better show some good ol classics. I would def buy a shirt, but im not 500 lbs, so Im not buying the fatass shirt | ||||||
| hahaha forgot about Bill Stickers, ^^good idea | ||||||
| 220 | ||||||
| http://starwarscolbert3.ytmnd.com/ > http://starwarscolbert2.ytmnd.com/ > http://starwarscolbert.ytmnd.com/ | ||||||
| Opera 9.10 owns the sh*t out of pop-ups, and ads. DO YOUR WORST, MAX! | ||||||
| You can throttle us down to conserve bandwidth. I don't mind. | ||||||
| NEDM T-shirt! | ||||||
| The news schedule isn't very consistent, is it? I think http://ytmnd.com/assets/b1ca0ca8ada818d287e8ca1c5b21d914
or http://ytmnd.com/assets/2e62b59527b1a19dad079c8f66f87a10 would make good shirts. By the way, hoodies are for f*gs. | ||||||
| Lol special fatty price. | ||||||
| STEPHEN COLBERT | ||||||
| sweet ytmnd on colbert report yeahhh! | ||||||
| Start a fake charity. | ||||||
| Have you thought about dedicated ads, getting a specific advertiser to commit to a certain amount per month to have permanent ad space? | ||||||
| Also fix top viewed | ||||||
| I'd buy an NEDM hoodie. | ||||||
| or just close down the site forever | ||||||
| yes thats awesome you should so do NEDM shirts | ||||||
| Does most of this bandwidth use come from the images? I'll be converting my PNGs to JPGs and reducing some of the big JPGs I have just in case. Also mp3s. | ||||||
| A T-Shirt with a picture of Eric Bauman, the LiveJasmin Admin, L. Ron Hubbard, and Lee Kaplan on the front, and the words "Bring it on" on the back. | ||||||
| "My bandwidth bill is astronomical and I can't pay it all. That's why I've agreed to put the site on TV." Did you think this through? | ||||||
| Start a Religion, I hear it's the quickest way to make a million dollars. | ||||||
| i did my part and bought a shirt | ||||||
| I'll see what I can do. | ||||||
| max just shut this down | ||||||
| I for one am deleting my crap sites, everyone who is anyone needs to do the same | ||||||
| Guys where's gmanwonderful.ytmnd.com ?? Is it dead? | ||||||
| lol whats that comedy central player doing on the front page? | ||||||
| y hello thar mr add lololol.
Brilliant. Let the ads roll in.
Also, gay fuel stickers. | ||||||
| OH SH*T! COLBERT REPoRT!!!!!11 | ||||||
| Something tells me that putting YTMND on the Colbert Report is only going to make your problems worse. | ||||||
