• Yahoo 'set to invest in Snapchat'
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29502069#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa[/url]
Oh man, another five person app company is about to make off like fucking bandits and ride golden mopeds into the sunset.
[i]How do they still have money?[/i]
ITT: These guys are going to be [i]SUCCESSFUL?[/i] MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!
Yahoo sure are making a lot of interesting purchases lately. First Aviate. Then Tumblr. Now Snapchat.
[QUOTE=Cuon Alpinus;46162662][i]How do they still have money?[/i][/QUOTE] I'm really confused. What DOES Yahoo do these days? I cannot think of a single service I use from them.
[QUOTE=Coyoteze;46162994]Yahoo sure are making a lot of interesting purchases lately. First Aviate. Then Tumblr. Now Snapchat.[/QUOTE] How the fuck do these apps and sites make money?. Every time I browse tumblr I haven't seen a single ad or anything. I looked at Aviate's google store page and I didn't see anything about ads or paying for the app so I don't know where they are getting money from.
[QUOTE=mcattack1092;46163496]How the fuck do these apps and sites make money?. Every time I browse tumblr I haven't seen a single ad or anything. I looked at Aviate's google store page and I didn't see anything about ads or paying for the app so I don't know where they are getting money from.[/QUOTE] They probably don't yet, Facebook didn't turn a profit until 2009
[QUOTE=mcattack1092;46163496]How the fuck do these apps and sites make money?. Every time I browse tumblr I haven't seen a single ad or anything. I looked at Aviate's google store page and I didn't see anything about ads or paying for the app so I don't know where they are getting money from.[/QUOTE] Snapchat's recently been doing that "Our Stories" thing which lets people broadcast stuff out to every snapchat user ever (usually it's sports games or whatever) through the stories section. It's a recent addition, so there's not much on whether or not that's actually bringing in substantial amounts of cash. for Tumblr, ads aren't showing up on user's blogs, but rather the main dashboard, where posts from who you follow collectively show up. On mobile or PC, you'll occasionally see ads for new TV shows, movies, or businesses mixed in (every 100 posts or so (it's not too annoying)) with whatever shows up from who you're following. Not sure how well that's doing since the XKit add-on (incredibly popular and basically required) had something written up for it to hide those posts like a day after they started showing up. Aviate's just a phone home screen mod. dunno what's up with that. For both of the first two, it's more "Sponsors" than "Advertisements", because it's usually just one different company/program ad holding the spotlight per week, shown many times over.
[QUOTE=cebceb44;46163622]for Tumblr, ads aren't showing up on user's blogs, but rather the main dashboard, where posts from who you follow collectively show up. On mobile or PC, you'll occasionally see ads for new TV shows, movies, or businesses mixed in (every 100 posts or so (it's not too annoying)) with whatever shows up from who you're following. Not sure how well that's doing since the XKit add-on (incredibly popular and basically required) had something written up for it to hide those posts like a day after they started showing up.[/QUOTE] ... where? The only "advertisements" on Tumblrs dashboard is for other blogs, and those are staff-selected, not payed for ad spots. [t]http://i.imgur.com/DWvLlFY.png[/t]
Maybe if you don't use an ad blocker, sure. I do and never see any of that.
[QUOTE=Miruku;46166433][thumb]http://i.imgur.com/G9lap9o.png[/thumb] There are sponsored posts that occasionally pop up every few pages.[/QUOTE] I have [I]never [/I]seen that.
[QUOTE=ScottyWired;46162998]I'm really confused. What DOES Yahoo do these days? I cannot think of a single service I use from them.[/QUOTE] Yahoo Answers and the occasional weirdo that hasn't moved their email over to something else [editline]6th October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Banned?;46166820]Maybe if you don't use an ad blocker, sure. I do and never see any of that.[/QUOTE] Ah shit man, you shouldn't have said that. Now you're going to attract the people that think people who use adblock are the antichrist.
[QUOTE=Coyoteze;46168356]I have [I]never [/I]seen that.[/QUOTE] I believe they used to have it on the desktop but got rid of it after backlash. That crap is still on the mobile version though and it's awful.
I'm on and off about adblockers; for example since I only watch YouTube videos of people I like I allow ads on YouTube so I can support those people.
tbh, im more interested in the facebook article they linked [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29156436[/url]
Maybe they will fix the shitty android version of Snapchat
[QUOTE=ScottyWired;46162998]I'm really confused. What DOES Yahoo do these days? I cannot think of a single service I use from them.[/QUOTE] From the looks of things their interests lie in company investments.
[QUOTE=Killzor;46170822]Maybe they will fix the shitty android version of Snapchat[/QUOTE] It works just fine for me?
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