7 Ways to Make Money from Your Content Online
Summary
Several of them are experimenting business models that go well beyond the traditional CPM approach for online ad impressions, resulting in interesting returns for authors and publishers. The startup insists that its model is much better adapted to monetizing “valuable content” than fully ad-supported options à la YouTube, where the impression threshold to start earning money is quite high. Here are a few data points the startup made public in a recent blog post: With the growing penetration of camera-equipped phones, we can be more than passive witnesses, and become amateur reporters. For newsrooms, the appeal of Citizenside resides in the credibility it adds to the pictures, which it carefully sources and checks – which explains why the French news agency AFP became one of its shareholders. As for aspiring citizen journalists, no need to live in a war zone to participate; the English version of Citizenside’s website features galleries on US Republican candidates and on the Chinese New Year celebrations in Madrid.
