are YOU somewhat stupid? this whole article is one big fictional world you created for yourself.

You obviously believe yourself because this article reeks with envy, it’s disgusting really, to go as far as saying someone should have been arrested because he chose to keep money he earned for a service he provided, and not donate it to some stupid charity.

If we go by that logic, everyone reading this article is right now shouting “Chris Tew should burn in HELL!”.

Your “own expirence” bullshit you’re trying to feed people about $3 per 1000 VIEWS is in no way a reliable source. not to mention that NOBODY relies on Alexa, its usage share sample is practicaly unkown.

We’re talking Google ads here, these are pay per click services that barley squeeze out a cent per click, even IF you’re little equation was related to reality, it would have been more like $200.

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if anyone is interested then please click on the link below

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Also you don’t seem to realise that the more ads you show the less CPM you make, this is certainly the case with CPXInteractive who TVL was using. Just because you can show high volume does not mean you make more, also it does not mean that you get to attract larger advertisers. If it did then why was TVL using a 2bit outfit such as CPXInteractive rather than Adsense?

The poster above said .15CPM was the lowest but I have seen $.07CPM on a site that did 300k impressions a day! Indeed from just emailing a couple of torrent site admins I know they have confirmed that $.10 is the most they have ever seen. In the words of 1 “we’re the subprime of the advertising industry, only the sharks will give us ads and when they do they feed heavily”.

Maybe you need to rethink your outlandish figures Chris. It’s all very well saying this guy made over $100k/month (possibly) but it has no basis in truth, why not say $500k for the hell of it!

The guy probably broke even is all. I guess that doesn’t make such a good story though.

Sites such as TVL, torrent sites, emule sites whatever. They all fall under the same category of “copyright grey area” content and therefore are rarely acceoted by Tier1 advertisers such as Doubleclick, Adsense, Casale, tribalfusion etc. Indeed you will often find that Tier2 advertisers do not touch sites such as TVL due to their questionable content type.

That leaves Tier2 advertisers such as Mediashakers, CPXInteractive, Realnetworks etc. Advertisers that resell the Tier1 and 2 ads at a much lower price and take a hefty chunk out of the profits. When running banner ads from these advertisers you can expect to see no more than $.15CPM, TVL if I remember had 1 banner per page which is probably the worst way to make any money as they pay terribly. Still let’s take your own figures and apply them to what we know now is a correct CPM figure:

27 million impressions/month \ 1000 = 27000

27000 x .15CPM = $4050

Still a decent amount but wait, a site that is 127th in the world needs some serious server power to keep it at that place. I have no knowledge of the specifics of TVL’s servers but I would be suprised if they were costing less than $2500-3500/month which would leave the owner with around $500/month if he’s lucky. I bet he didn’t even make that.

You’ve shown a complete lack of understanding about advertising for sites such as TVL and without any research into the reality of the situation have posted a story with a headline worthy of a red top. Good job!

Wiley.