Imgur launches video

Re:Imgur launches video by elorant on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:02PM (#17182891)

Why isn't any of these sites trying to provide premium services in a subscription model? You have a quarter of a billion users. Find something that 1% of them would pay for, charge $50 annually and you have enough money to keep going for ages. Why does it always has to be advertising?

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Re:Imgur launches video by Deimorz on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @08:42PM (#17183984)

They tried it, and decided to focus on ad revenue instead: https://blog.imgur.com/2015/02/09/imgur-pro-for-everyone/

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Re:Imgur launches video by Jabbles on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:05PM (#17182914)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Premium

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Re:Imgur launches video by tschellenbach on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @06:04PM (#17183237)

Also, this redirects your product development efforts to something thats only useful for 1% of your user base.

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Re:Imgur launches video by cvaidya1986 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:04PM (#17182906)

Users expect free social media. Video sharing et al has been commoditized.

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Re:Imgur launches video by infinitismal8 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:15PM (#17182973)

>Find something that 1% of them would pay for,

That easy huh

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Re:Imgur launches video by codq on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @08:20PM (#17183865)

I always liked WhatsApp’s $1/year model.

$1/year is manageable by just about everyone, and with 250M users (or 1B+ users in the case of WhatsApp), that’s a nice yearly haul.

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Re:Imgur launches video by lamlam on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @09:49PM (#17184383)

I believe whatsapp is free now? I actually only remember paying once.

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Re:Imgur launches video by supertrope on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @10:09PM (#17184477)

Facebook bought WhatsApp

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