By Jim Hoffman on Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 05:50 pm:
Saw in news that Gamecenter is stopping Gamers' Alliance on Feb. 1.
How do you forsee this affecting QuarterToThree?
By TomChick on Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 06:12 pm:
"How do you forsee this affecting QuarterToThree?"
Hi Jim,
We're really not sure. There are a few options we're looking into, but it was pretty dire news for us. We've got hosting services for another month or so after c|net pulls the funding, so we'll at least be around that long. Beyond that, it's kind of up in the air for now.
-Tom
By Mark Asher on Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 08:18 pm:
Just saw a story at Gamers.com about UGO cutting their rates.
http://www.gamers.com/news/495051/
They're going to pay affliates a $1/CPM. They have some big names, too. Old Man Murray, Blues News, Daily Radar (they're probably going to dump UGO, I'm guessing), Shugashack, Everlore, Stratics, and on and on.
By Rob_Merritt on Friday, January 5, 2001 - 05:56 pm:
Looks like this is going to be the end to a lot of gaming sites. The end of the net as us gamers know it.
By Sean Tudor on Friday, January 5, 2001 - 08:57 pm:
We will head towards a rather sterile gaming environment consisting of big sites like GameSpot and GameCenter.
By Mark Asher on Friday, January 5, 2001 - 09:10 pm:
Hard to say what's going to happen. Most sites were getting a $2-3/CPM and that's going away. The new model looks like an ad revenue split between the website and the network selling that ads.
However, the ad rates that people are getting are now between $2-5/CPM from what I'm hearing, and no advertiser wants a site's entire page view inventory. So we have a situation where if the site is lucky, 50% of their page views are sold at $5/CPM. This puts their actual CPM at $2.50. They then split this with the network, netting them $1.25/CPM.
So no matter how you cut, most sites are going to see a dip in revenue. The best model favors those sites that can sell their own ads. Then the CPM goes back up to $2.50 or so. Of course this favors the large sites that can afford a professional sales effort.
I think a lot of the smaller sites will stick around, but they may have to cut costs or cut back on their efforts.
By Anonymous on Sunday, January 7, 2001 - 11:24 pm:
You still looking for a new host? Try http://www.smoovenet.com - they're on the look out for more gaming sites. (No I don't work for them).