Digg's Miserable Business Model, Losing Millions of Dollars

Re:Digg's Miserable Business Model, Losing Millions of Dollars by patio11 on Saturday December 20, 2008 @01:30PM (#404684)

1. Collect an audience of rabidly anti-commercial poor adolescents.

2. Put up banner advertising.

3. ???

4. Profit

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Re:Digg's Miserable Business Model, Losing Millions of Dollars by potatolicious on Sunday December 21, 2008 @12:47AM (#405236)

The same reason why I don't believe Facebook will ever reach real profitability - their primary audience is a bunch of poor, broke college students, not to mention ones who are generally anti-corporate.

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Re:Digg's Miserable Business Model, Losing Millions of Dollars by Raphael on Sunday December 21, 2008 @05:26AM (#405365)

What about when they grow up?

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Re:Digg's Miserable Business Model, Losing Millions of Dollars by redrobot5050 on Monday December 22, 2008 @10:20AM (#406432)

One analyst put it best: "Who the hell thought it was a good idea to try to monetize the space where someone publicly breaks up with their fiance?"

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Re:Digg's Miserable Business Model, Losing Millions of Dollars by SteveC on Sunday December 21, 2008 @05:45AM (#405372)

That's when they realise they can't be wasting time on social networking websites thanks to the wife and kids.

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