How much is the big girls thread worth to Bikeradar.

brianonyx

The main revenue generation for a site like bike radar is advertising and my understanding is that traffic statistics are the key determinant for pricing and selling advertising space.

Just between the two girls threads on crud catcher and here have generated around 4 million views (and presumably more before the various threads were merged) I wonder how much of an impact does that have on the bike radar advertising revenue?

Anyone have any ideas on the value of the thread?

rick_chasey

Depends how many wider br views don't occur because they're put off by the threads.

RDW

There are adverts in that thread?

arran77

RDW wrote:

There are adverts in that thread?

More to the point, there are threads other than Big Girls :shock:

lucan2

There's a girl thread in Crudcatcher? Link?

Yellow Peril

Lucan2 wrote:

There's a girl thread in Crudcatcher? Link?

They'll all be mingers and ladyboys

morstar

Rick Chasey wrote:

Depends how many wider br views don't occur because they're put off by the threads.

An impossible question. Fantastic. I have the same sort question regarding ice hockey. A brilliant game tarnished by the side show fighting. Ban fighting and you lose a huge part of the revenue stream. But how much bigger could this brilliant sport be if a wider potential audience wasn't put off by the sideshow element. Sorry for going off on a tangent but it's the same sort of question.

Mikey23

Don't like big girls, they scare me.... Small is the new big

arran77

Lucan2 wrote:

There's a girl thread in Crudcatcher? Link?

It's shite compared to the BB version which surprised me with the crudders.

seanoconn

morstar wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Depends how many wider br views don't occur because they're put off by the threads.

An impossible question. Fantastic. I have the same sort question regarding ice hockey. A brilliant game tarnished by the side show fighting. Ban fighting and you lose a huge part of the revenue stream. But how much bigger could this brilliant sport be if a wider potential audience wasn't put off by the sideshow element. Sorry for going off on a tangent but it's the same sort of question.

Slightly different as you can choose not to look at the BR sideshow, should you be so inclined.

negativelycra

I'm suprised to see the mods allow it on at all, tbh.
This is the internet. If you want tits, they're easy to come by. This is a cycling website, i'm not sure what benefit nsfw semi porn is to me - the re is better porn on other, non cycling websites.
Mind, i have / had the same opinion re. The pit girls threads on pistonheads, which also seems more popular than the btcc threads in the uk racing forum. Clearly, i'm just less of a fan on multitasking on forums..

Stevo_666

The arguments about the Girls threads have already been had some time ago (the 'Communtergate' thread is still around somewhere) and decision was made to keep them. So no point rehashing that.

Only someone in Future Publishing is likely to have an estimate of the value, but whatever it is it's probably a lot more than the Mary Whitehouse crowd and PC wannabe killjoys would like

Mikey23

It would be possible to suffocate in there... But what a way to go

pinno

It's 'modded'. There are rules. There are pictures you can and can't post. If any website has a forum, then there is always going to be some threads that one might not agree with or condone.
personally, I would delete all the banal threads but BR manages to accommodate everybody and by being non-partisan, probably attracts many more than eclectic sites.

Pross

As it seems to have only had a regular handful of contributors since it all got merged I doubt it's worth anything. At least when it was Girls in Lycra it had a tenuous link. These days it's just a load of pictures anyone could find for themselves.

VTech

Just a google add alone values the thread at $2,590,000 over a given year.
Thats not to say BR would get anywhere near that, but the value of a hit is averaged at $0.74/per hit/per year.
I have friends/equaintances that make on average £0.02 per view on their youtube yet make high 6 figure salaries yearly over the past 2 years which is growing rapidly.
Do no underestimate the value of people visiting your site. There is no way a business would lose a 3,500,000 hit rate unless it was hugely negative for them.

arran77

VTech wrote:

Just a google add alone values the thread at $2,590,000 over a given year.
Thats not to say BR would get anywhere near that, but the value of a hit is averaged at $0.74/per hit/per year.
I have friends/equaintances that make on average £0.02 per view on their youtube yet make high 6 figure salaries yearly over the past 2 years which is growing rapidly.
Do no underestimate the value of people visiting your site. There is no way a business would lose a 3,500,000 hit rate unless it was hugely negative for them.

So what you're basically saying VTech is that Big Girls is here to stay as it adds value to this place?

Excellent, I always knew an unhealthy interest in tits and arse had value

Stevo_666

arran77 wrote:

VTech wrote:

Just a google add alone values the thread at $2,590,000 over a given year.
Thats not to say BR would get anywhere near that, but the value of a hit is averaged at $0.74/per hit/per year.
I have friends/equaintances that make on average £0.02 per view on their youtube yet make high 6 figure salaries yearly over the past 2 years which is growing rapidly.
Do no underestimate the value of people visiting your site. There is no way a business would lose a 3,500,000 hit rate unless it was hugely negative for them.

So what you're basically saying VTech is that Big Girls is here to stay as it adds value to this place?

Excellent, I always knew an unhealthy interest in tits and ars* had value

Interesting financial stats there. So if we really want to support BR, we need more t1ts and ar5e. Get posting lads, your forum needs you

goonz

Stevo 666 wrote:

arran77 wrote:

VTech wrote:

Just a google add alone values the thread at $2,590,000 over a given year.
Thats not to say BR would get anywhere near that, but the value of a hit is averaged at $0.74/per hit/per year.
I have friends/equaintances that make on average £0.02 per view on their youtube yet make high 6 figure salaries yearly over the past 2 years which is growing rapidly.
Do no underestimate the value of people visiting your site. There is no way a business would lose a 3,500,000 hit rate unless it was hugely negative for them.

So what you're basically saying VTech is that Big Girls is here to stay as it adds value to this place?

Excellent, I always knew an unhealthy interest in tits and ars* had value

Interesting financial stats there. So if we really want to support BR, we need more t1ts and ar5e. Get posting lads, your forum needs you

I'll do my bit for the forum and it's community.

Mikey23

And donkeys?

sungod

if br uses adsense, or similar, big girls probably makes it very little

google adsense pays for clicks on an ad, not for looking at a page with ads on it

awkward people, like me, who use bad locker, could ogle big girls all day without generating a penny of revenue

Stevo_666

sungod wrote:

if br uses adsense, or similar, big girls probably makes it very little

google adsense pays for clicks on an ad, not for looking at a page with ads on it

awkward people, like me, who use bad locker, could ogle big girls all day without generating a penny of revenue

Maybe, but if you're going to click on an ad then you're more likely to do it in a thread that you look at a lot. If you use blocking software then that means no thread generates revenue from you. So threads with big viewing figures are more valuable. In any event I reckon you're more likely to click on an ad when the blood has flowed away from your head

dmclite-3.0

I'm a tit and can be an arse at times, can I have some revenue pleeze ?

nevman

How much do the girls get? Many of them could use a clothing allowance.And an osteopath .

nathancom

Vtech's figures made no sense whatsoever. 3.5million hits is tiny when you consider the age of the thread, pages driving serious amounts of revenue are generating that hit rate, and well north of that, per day. I imagine BR are using a mix of DFP and Adsense. DFP generates higher margins.