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Re:Juicy Campus to Shut Down by tsally on Thursday February 05, 2009 @02:08AM (#467304)
Could someone with more business experience than I elaborate on this? Is it really just because ad revenue is down, or was the company mismanaged? My impression of this site was that it was widely successful. I know that it had definitely broken into the mainstream (known among the average college population), which is a huge milestone.
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Re:Juicy Campus to Shut Down by akd on Thursday February 05, 2009 @04:46AM (#467467)
Juicy Campus wouldn't have survived in any economy. The site is so repugnant that no legitimate advertiser wanted to be associated with the site.
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Re:Juicy Campus to Shut Down by jupiter on Thursday February 05, 2009 @04:46AM (#467466)
I think you cannot keep a site with traffic like this running on AdSense (at least with a decent performance) and it's definitely not an environment for advertisers who pay top dollars.
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